About Matthew
Matthew Black is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and related difficulties. He has five years of professional experience and works from a respectful, sensitive, and compassionate stance. Matthew uses straightforward conversation to support people as they take the first steps towards change.
He offers practical, personalised sessions rather than one-size-fits-all plans. Conversations are shaped around what each person brings to the room and what they want to achieve.
Background and approach
Common concerns Matthew helps with include grief, stress, depression, self-esteem, relationship strain, and addiction-related worries. Matthew also works with issues linked to gender dysphoria, hoarding, intellectual disability, personality disorders, phobias, and non-monogamous relationship dynamics. He aims to make sessions approachable, so people can talk frankly about what matters to them without jargon or pressure.
His way of working draws on client-centred principles and structured techniques from cognitive behavioural and dialectical behaviour approaches. That means he combines listening with practical strategies you can try between sessions. Over time the focus is on building skills that reduce distress and improve day-to-day coping.
Sessions are tailored to each person’s pace and needs. Matthew supports people who want help navigating life changes, coping with loss, or reducing persistent anxiety. He invites a collaborative process where people set goals and make steady, manageable steps towards them.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person and their experience. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows the client's lead to build understanding and trust. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behaviour therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the best approach is part of the process. The counsellor will work collaboratively to figure out which methods suit a person’s goals and preferences. That might mean combining listening-focused work with structured exercises, and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls support face-to-face style conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options help fit therapy around busy lives and different communication needs.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Hoarding
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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