About Matthew
Matthew Sheft is a licensed social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and life changes. He focuses on practical steps that reduce overwhelm and build everyday coping skills. Matthew uses a calm, direct style to help people find clearer choices during hard moments.
He draws on client-centered methods to listen and follow each person's priorities. He also uses cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior ideas are mixed in when emotional regulation and distress tolerance are needed. Matthew has seven years of clinical experience and holds LICSW and LCSW credentials. He practices in Florida and works with people on concerns such as relationship struggles, parenting stress, grief, workplace pressure, addiction, and identity questions.
He also helps with sleep and eating issues and with long-term mood concerns like bipolar disorder. Sessions focus on clear goals and gradual practice. Matthew aims to make each session actionable so clients leave with one or two steps to try.
He emphasizes communication skills, boundaries, and rebuilding confidence after setbacks. People who prefer a respectful, collaborative approach tend to do well with him. He offers multiple ways to meet, including video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the client; it helps people clarify values and set goals while feeling heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical experiments to change how someone responds to stress or anxiety. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills for intense emotions and relationship strain.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Matthew collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. Together they test techniques and adjust the plan over time so sessions match what’s working and what isn’t.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people keep face-to-face connection when schedules or distance make office visits hard. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins, follow-up notes, or practicing skills between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep consistent progress while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Vermont, Maine
- Languages
- English
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