About Matthew
Matthew Dougherty is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in New York. He brings six years of experience helping people who face anxiety, depression, stress, and major life shifts. He focuses on meeting each person where they are and listening first before suggesting next steps.
Matthew works in a direct, down-to-earth way. He helps people build practical coping skills, improve communication, and manage self-esteem struggles. Sessions mix clear goal-setting with time to talk through feelings and repeated practice of new habits.
Background and approach
He uses methods like talk-based client-centered work, cognitive behavioral tools, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy to address worrying thoughts and overwhelming emotions. Those methods are adapted to each person’s situation rather than applied the same way to everyone. Many people come to him for help with relationship issues, grief, trauma and abuse, or navigating parenting and career stress.
He also supports clients dealing with addictions, ADHD, eating and sleeping concerns, and compassion fatigue. Matthew pays attention to how problems link together, such as mood concerns paired with work or relationship strain. In sessions he focuses on small doable changes.
He helps people try new ways of coping, notice what works, and adjust the plan. The aim is steady progress toward clearer goals and more reliable day-to-day functioning.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Matthew commonly draws on client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and helping the person identify their own goals; it helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to sort feelings. Cognitive behavioral therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety and mood concerns.He also incorporates elements of dialectical behavior therapy when needed to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. Those strategies can help people who feel easily overwhelmed or who want clearer ways to calm down and respond. Matthew treats choosing a method as a joint process and will work with each person to find the best fit for their goals and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video sessions let people work face-to-face from different locations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers voice only, and chat or text are useful for shorter check-ins or ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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