PhD, RCC-ACS, CCS · Therapist and Approved Clinical Supervisor · Victoria, BC
Meg Kapil is an educational psychologist and therapist. Her view is that people heal and grow in a calm, respectful, collaborative relationship, and that is the kind of space she works to create. Her practice brings together trauma therapy, the science of learning and self-regulation, and a neurodiversity-affirming lens, so that care fits the whole person and not only a diagnosis.
Her doctoral research at the University of Victoria explored how stress, mental health, and self-regulated learning shape our ability to flourish. That research has been recognized with the BCACC Distinguished Professional Contribution to Applied Research Award in 2025 and the CCPA Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2025, among others.
Alongside her therapy practice, Meg teaches and supervises the next generation of therapists, including as an instructor for the BCACC Clinical Supervision Course, and she presents to schools, clinicians, and parents on stress regulation and flourishing.
Her training runs wide as well as deep. She is EMDR trained and an EMDR Approved Consultant, with advanced work in trauma, including complex trauma, and specialist training in neurodiversity and ADHD. It is this blend, trauma therapy, the science of learning and self-regulation, and years of hands-on clinical work, that she brought to the courses.
Meg's doctoral research kept landing on one finding: feeling well and doing well are not separate. When we feel steadier, we tend to function better, and when we function better, we tend to feel steadier. Her dissertation, Doing Well and Feeling Well, examined the stress appraisals and regulation practices that move both at once. That idea, being well and doing well together, is the foundation the courses are built on.
The tools did not come from the research alone. Over more than twelve years of in-person practice, Meg developed and refined the approach that became the 3A Toolkit directly with clients, noticing what genuinely helped a person catch stress early, name it, and choose a next step, and setting aside what sounded good but did not hold up in a hard moment. What survived that test became the three steps at the heart of every edition: Awareness, Assign a Label, and Action.
To turn that clinical work into courses that stand on their own, Meg brought together a small team to design and build the editions, while she kept the clinical content, the sequence, and the research grounding in her own hands. The result is the same toolkit shaped for different ages and settings, from adults to teens to young children and schools, each one carrying the practice she uses with clients rather than a thinned down version of it.
See Dr. Kapil's full list of eleven peer-reviewed publications on ResearchGate.
Meg sees clients through her therapy practice in Victoria, BC. You can learn more at megkapil.com.
