About Matthew
Matthew Dougherty is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York. He has six years of clinical experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, and big life changes. He aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people who want tools that fit daily life.
He listens first and asks simple questions to understand what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on building better coping skills, clearer communication, and steadier self-esteem.
Background and approach
Matthew uses a mix of techniques to help people manage worry, address relationship and intimacy concerns, and navigate grieving or trauma responses. Many clients work on behavior changes and thinking patterns to reduce symptoms and make everyday tasks easier. He also supports people dealing with addiction struggles, career stress, parenting challenges, and issues connected to identity, including LGBT concerns.
Matthew helps clients set small, achievable goals and track progress over time. He blends Client-Centered Therapy with structured methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy when useful. Motivational Interviewing and Narrative Therapy are available tools for exploring values and shifting unhelpful stories people tell themselves.
The emphasis stays on practical steps rather than long explanations. People who prefer a calm, collaborative approach tend to fit his style well. Sessions are aimed at learning skills, reducing overwhelm, and improving day-to-day functioning.
Matthew works with clients to adapt strategies so they are realistic and usable in the things they do every day.
How Matthew Uses Talk Therapy Online
Matthew commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and helping people find their own solutions, which suits those who need space to talk through feelings. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, useful for anxiety, depression, and phobias. DBT builds emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills and can help when emotions feel intense or relationships are strained.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Matthew collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and daily life. He adjusts techniques over time so sessions stay relevant and focused on what the client wants to change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use body language and visual cues, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a brief break. Live chat and messaging are helpful for short check-ins, written reflections, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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