About Matt
Matt Givens is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 16 years of experience. He works with people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, loss, relationship problems, or big life changes. He aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can start to feel steadier and more able to cope.
Matt focuses on rebuilding connections and strengthening personal resources. He uses practical talking and behavioral tools to address worries, low mood, and addictive patterns.
Background and approach
He helps people sort through shame, guilt, and the strain that follows trauma or difficult life events. In sessions he draws on client-centered listening to understand each person’s priorities. He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
For trauma-related symptoms he employs approaches that target the emotional impact of past events while keeping the client’s pace in mind. Parents and individuals seeking help with relationship issues can expect clear, goal-focused work. He often combines short-term strategies with deeper conversations about values and purpose.
Practical homework and skill practice between sessions are common parts of the process. Matt is based in Indiana and conducts sessions in English. He describes therapy as a collaborative effort where people build skills, repair trust, and find ways to move forward from painful experiences.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel heard and understood; online sessions use conversation and therapist pacing to build that same connection and support. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches practical techniques to notice and change thought and behavior patterns, and it adapts well to video or phone sessions where homework and skill practice can be reviewed together. EMDR is a trauma-focused approach that targets distress tied to past events; when used online it relies on careful preparation, pacing, and specific eye movement or alternative bilateral stimulation methods suited to remote work.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s goals, needs, and comfort level. Sessions often start with assessment and shared planning so the approach can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging allow brief updates or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work even when travel or time constraints arise.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Ohio
- Languages
- English
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