About Matthew
Matthew Costello is a person-centred counsellor who works with people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. He holds BACP registration, which indicates he is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. He aims to offer a calm, respectful space where someone can talk about what feels hard right now.
He focuses on practical, down-to-earth conversations that help people notice what matters and what can change. He supports people with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, trauma, sleeping and eating difficulties, and issues around intimacy and relationships.
Background and approach
He also helps with career doubts, self-esteem, and life transitions. Matthew has three years of practice experience working with people who face mental health tensions and neurodiversity-related challenges. That experience informs a gentle, patient style that values each person's pace.
He encourages small steps and clear, realistic goals rather than quick fixes. Sessions are intended to be collaborative. Matthew listens, reflects, and helps people identify patterns and choices they can try between sessions.
He also offers coaching-style support for people who want focused help with life changes or purpose. People can expect straightforward language and practical suggestions alongside emotional support. The aim is to build confidence, reduce distress, and make everyday life more manageable over time.
How approach and format meet your needs
This counsellor draws on person-centred ways of working that emphasise listening, empathy and the person’s own strengths. Person-centred work helps when someone needs to be heard, understood and given space to make their own decisions. It is useful for anxiety, stress and self-esteem issues.He also uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people change unhelpful patterns. These techniques focus on identifying thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and on practising small changes between sessions. They are often helpful for panic attacks, sleep problems, compulsive habits and coping with life changes.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk through options with the person, agree goals and try methods that fit the person’s needs and preferences. Adjustments are made along the way if something does not feel helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation when visual contact matters. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let people write between sessions and use brief check-ins during the day. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare and travel commitments while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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