About Matthew
Matthew Menard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania with 12 years of clinical experience. He focuses on practical help for everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and parenting challenges. Matthew writes treatment plans to match each person’s needs and speaks plainly so parents and busy people can follow along.
He uses clear, goal-oriented methods drawn from approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Background and approach
Sessions often include learning skills to manage strong emotions, changing thoughts that get in the way, and exercises to try between meetings. The work is collaborative and paced to the person’s readiness. Matthew also addresses trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, mood issues such as depression and bipolar, and attention difficulties like ADHD.
He helps people sort complicated life changes, career stress, and compassion fatigue, and he supports those dealing with body image, eating, sleep, chronic pain, and caregiver strain. People who prefer a relational style will find his client-centered and attachment-informed outlook useful. He aims to create a respectful, sensitive setting and to adapt conversations to each situation.
That often means combining skill teaching with time to talk through feelings and history. Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled online or by phone. Matthew accepts international clients and works with subscription-based session plans that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Matthew blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy into clear, practical work. CBT focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which helps with anxiety, mood, and sleep problems. ACT emphasizes values-based action and acceptance of difficult feelings, which can be useful for stress, chronic pain, and life transitions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Matthew works collaboratively to figure out what fits each person's goals and preferences, trying concrete techniques and adjusting based on what helps. Sessions often combine skills practice with time to talk about relationship and attachment issues so plans evolve naturally.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give practical options. Video calls allow face-to-face work for skill demonstrations and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a simpler way to check in when bandwidth is limited or during a work break. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or people who prefer not to be on camera. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue progress between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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
- LGBT
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- 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
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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