About David
David Mattis is a counsellor with ten years' experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression and phobias. He aims to make the first steps into counselling simple and humane. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's comfort level.
He uses clear, everyday language and encourages people to speak about what matters to them. David builds work around a trusting therapeutic relationship. He emphasises empathy, respect and honesty in sessions so clients can open up without feeling rushed.
Background and approach
He offers a combination of approaches and adapts them to what a person needs in the moment. His practice supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes. He also addresses issues such as addiction, chronic illness and caregiver stress.
Many people come to him for help with feelings of isolation, guilt, or difficulties in communicating with others. David draws on client-centred methods alongside cognitive behavioural ideas and emotionally focused work. He also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques when they fit the client's goals.
These approaches are used in simple, practical ways to help people identify patterns and try out small changes. Sessions are offered to people in the United Kingdom and to international clients in English. David supports people who want short-term problem solving and those who prefer longer-term exploration.
Clients begin by completing a short questionnaire and then arranging sessions to suit them.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centred therapy places the client's experience first and focuses on being heard and understood. This approach helps when someone needs space to make sense of feelings such as anxiety, depression or grief. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviours and offers simple exercises to test and change unhelpful patterns; it is often useful for anxiety, phobias and mood problems.David sees finding the best approach as a shared task. He discusses goals with each person and tries different techniques to see what fits. Over a few sessions the approach can be adjusted so it matches the client's needs, pace and preferences.
Online therapy makes those options more flexible. Video calls allow a fuller face-to-face experience, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit counselling around work, care responsibilities and travel, while still using client-centred, CBT or emotionally focused work in practical ways.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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