About Matthew
Matthew Walters, LPC, focuses on helping people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, addiction, or big life changes. He aims to make therapy straightforward and practical so people can use what they learn between sessions. He keeps the first sessions simple: listen, understand what matters most, and set small goals together.
He works with concerns such as depression, relationship problems, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and issues related to intimacy and parenthood.
Background and approach
Phobias are among the areas he lists as a focus when relevant to the person’s concerns. Matthew uses a calm, empathetic style and helps people find clearer ways to communicate and set boundaries. He often focuses on problem solving and on small, manageable steps that build confidence over time.
Motivational approaches are used when someone wants to make changes but feels unsure where to start. He draws on cognitive-behavioral and narrative techniques to help people notice unhelpful patterns and rewrite them into more workable stories. Sessions may include practical exercises, short experiments, or coaching-style conversations aimed at everyday life problems like work stress or relationship strain.
With 12 years of experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania, Matthew emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes. He helps clients build resilience, handle caregiver fatigue, and address family-of-origin or blended family issues. The focus is on clear, usable skills that make day-to-day life feel more manageable.
Therapeutic approaches and working online
Matthew often uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening closely and responding to the person's priorities so they feel heard and understood. This approach helps when someone wants a steady, supportive space to sort out emotions and decisions.He also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral experiments. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and phobias when someone wants concrete steps to reduce symptoms and build confidence.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Matthew will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they pick methods and adjust them over time so the work fits real life and produces useful changes.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video works well for in-depth conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat are good for quick check-ins or brief coaching moments. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules, manage ongoing support, and try approaches that match how they prefer to communicate.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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