About Matthew
Matthew Federici is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage anxiety, stress, addiction, mood changes, and relationship problems. He offers straightforward support for everyday struggles like sleep trouble, low self-esteem, parenting stress, and coping after loss. Matthew practices in Florida and has ten years of experience in counseling settings.
Matthew uses plain talk and practical steps in sessions. He draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Background and approach
He also uses attachment-based and client-centered ideas to improve connection and self-understanding. In sessions he often combines short-term skills with deeper work on patterns that repeat in relationships and emotion. That might mean learning tools to manage panic or anger, then tracing how early attachment or communication patterns keep those problems going.
He can help with concerns tied to trauma, grief, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and parenting strain. Matthew has worked across general mental health and substance use settings since 2016. His background includes helping people with depression, bipolar symptoms, impulse-control issues, and co-occurring health concerns.
He brings a calm, direct approach geared toward practical progress. People who reach out can expect focused sessions that balance skills practice with attention to personal values. Matthew aims to make therapy useful and manageable, especially when life changes feel overwhelming.
Combining evidence-based approaches with flexible online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while taking small steps toward what matters. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. CBT often helps with panic, depression, and sleep or eating concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Matthew will talk with each person about their goals, daily challenges, and preferences, then suggest techniques and experiments to try. That collaborative process means strategies can be adjusted over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers a range of ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and longer skill-building sessions. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or shorter conversations between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to practice skills in real contexts.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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