About Matthew
Matthew Digges is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 11 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. He works with individuals facing depression, trauma, LGBTQ concerns, and other intense life changes. His style is calm and direct, aimed at making small, practical steps feel possible.
Matthew builds a safe space where clients can talk through painful memories and current struggles. He focuses on what matters to each person and on skills that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
Sessions often include clear tools for coping and ways to test new habits between meetings. His approach draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking patterns. He also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live by their values even when feelings are hard.
Attachment-based work is used to track how relationships shape self-image and reactions. Over the years Matthew has helped people with a wide range of concerns beyond anxiety and depression. These include grief, addictions, ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, anger, and career transitions.
He also works with issues such as body image, chronic illness, and caregiving stress. Matthew practices in Ohio as an OH LPCC. He offers sessions by phone, video calls, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
He speaks English and focuses on collaborative, realistic goals geared toward daily life.
How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions
Matthew uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this often includes simple homework like tracking patterns between sessions. He also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to support clients in identifying core values and taking action toward them, even when strong emotions are present.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Matthew will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then suggest ways of working that fit. That plan is revisited as needed so the process stays practical and useful for the client's life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging is useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support between meetings, or when typing feels easier than talking.
These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel, and let people try different formats until they find what helps them engage and make steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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