About Charles
Charles "Matt" Cox is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina with 11 years of experience. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, trauma, and relationship struggles. He aims to keep sessions straightforward and focused on real goals people bring to therapy.
Matt prefers a client-centered style. That means he listens first and tailors the work to each person. He brings Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing into sessions when those methods fit the problem and the person.
Background and approach
He has substantial experience with co-occurring issues, including substance use and mood disorders. He also works with people dealing with grief, parenting challenges, intimacy concerns, anger, and career stress. His background includes helping those with trauma-related symptoms and complex presentations where multiple problems overlap.
In a typical appointment, Matt will collaborate on clear, doable steps clients can try between sessions. He discusses options and adapts techniques to match a client’s pace and comfort. Motivational Interviewing is used when people are weighing change, and CBT tools are offered to address unhelpful thinking and behaviors.
Sessions may involve talk, skill-building, short exercises, and practical homework to track progress. Matt focuses on steady, achievable changes rather than quick fixes. He aims to make therapy useful and relatable for everyday life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what each person needs. Online sessions use that same approach by starting with the person's concerns and shaping the conversation to their goals. This method helps when people want a supportive space to talk through stress, anxiety, relationship worries, or grief.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change them. Online CBT sessions often include short exercises, thought records, and practical homework that can be done between meetings to address anxiety, depression, and unhelpful behavior patterns.
Motivational Interviewing helps people who are unsure about change by exploring values and ambivalence in a respectful way. In remote sessions this can be effective for substance use concerns, making lifestyle adjustments, or moving toward goals at a comfortable pace.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and help choose methods that match a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is collaborative and can be adjusted over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates or reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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