About Matthew
Matthew Land is an AHPRA-credentialed counsellor with 12 years of clinical experience. He works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, and depression. He aims to create a respectful and compassionate space where people can begin to talk about what matters most to them.
Matthew adapts his approach to each person’s needs. Sessions focus on clear, practical steps you can try between meetings. He uses flexible talk-based methods alongside skills training so people learn ways to manage symptoms and respond differently in difficult moments.
Background and approach
Many clients come for help with attachment and abandonment worries, body image, guilt and shame, or obsessive and compulsive behaviours. He also supports people dealing with panic attacks, mood problems, communication breakdowns, and issues around life purpose and isolation. Matthew notices patterns people repeat and helps them make small, steady changes.
His practice draws on evidence-informed approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, attachment work, and client-centred methods. These give a mix of acceptance, practical skills, values work and a focus on relationships. Matthew works with people in Australia and offers sessions in English.
He tailors the pace and focus to each person, and encourages honest feedback so therapy stays relevant and useful.
Approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed action toward what matters, which can help with anxiety, depression and life purpose questions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together. It teaches practical techniques to reduce panic, obsessive thinking and mood symptoms by testing assumptions and changing unhelpful habits. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds affect current reactions and trust issues, useful for attachment or abandonment concerns.Finding the best approach is part of the work. Matthew will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. He reviews progress and adjusts the plan so the work stays relevant and useful, making decisions together as therapy proceeds.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video suits deeper conversations and skills practice, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging can work for shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, study and family commitments while keeping a steady course of support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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