Dr. Meag-gan (she/her) is a licensed psychologist, self-worth expert, DEI consultant, and the co-founder of Inherent Value Psychology INC. Working with high achieving students and professionals at companies including Google, the San Francisco Ballet, and Lucasfilm’s, Dr. Meag-gan is a pioneering clinician in the well-being of high performers and skillfully guides all audiences on how to detangle their personal worth from professional achievement.
A high achiever herself, she completed her Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Stanford University where she was hired and served as a Staff Psychologist and Coordinator of Outreach Equity and Inclusion for six years. Dr. Meag-gan is also a course creator and Lecture in the Stanford School of Medicine’s Wellness Education Department. Dr. Meag-gan teaches, Wellness 110: The Science of Motivation and Procrastination, a course that reaches max enrollment each quarter, and Wellness 141: Thriving While BIPOC, an independently funded course created to meet the emotional and unique intellectual needs of Black, Indigenous and other students of color.
Concurrent with her time at Stanford, Dr. Meag-gan is a highly sought DEI and mental health consultant. Dr. Meag-gan is the creator of therapeutic Healing Circles for marginalized employees as well as allies which foster true solidarity and coalition building within an organization.
Notably, Dr. Meag-gan took to the TEDx stage in 2018 to remind us that our lives matter to the world. Her TEDx talk Enough is Enough: The Power of Your Inherent Value can be seen on YouTube. Dr. Meag-gan’s research and writings focuses on social justice, and her areas of clinical expertise include trauma, high functioning depression, high achiever stress (imposter syndrome perfectionism & burnout) and social identities (particularly race, social class, and gender). If you are a student or professor that would benefit from a clinical frame on how to strive to be excellent with your worth intact, Dr. Meag-gan is the thought leader in this space. She deeply believes in equipping people with the best decolonized psychological science to empower and liberate communities.
