About Matthew
Matthew Kiefer is a licensed counselor who helps people facing anxiety, stress, and life transitions. He works with individuals coping with depression, addiction, grief, parenting strain, and relationship or communication problems. He brings a calm, encouraging presence to sessions and aims to make the first steps toward change easier to take.
Matthew uses a mix of practical tools and relational care. He draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
He uses acceptance-based ideas to help people make room for difficult feelings while moving toward valued actions. Attachment-focused work helps address early relationship wounds that still affect current behavior. His style is warm and interactive, with an encouraging tone that can include playfulness when it helps clients open up.
Matthew avoids stigmatizing labels and adapts the session style to each person’s needs and pace. Therapy sessions focus on clear, doable strategies and honest conversation about what’s getting in the way. Matthew holds LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) and LCPC (Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor) credentials and brings eleven years of clinical experience.
He has worked with people who experienced trauma, abuse, attachment concerns, and a wide range of mood and behavioral challenges. Sessions are offered from Utah and are conducted in English. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different schedules and preferences.
If someone wants to begin, they complete a short questionnaire and schedule a session based on availability.
How Matthew blends approaches for online therapy
Matthew often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. This approach can be useful for anxiety and stress when worry keeps someone from doing what matters.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is another core tool he uses to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is practical and skills-focused, which helps with depression, anxiety, and coping with life changes.
He also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to work through early relationship wounds that affect current reactions and closeness with others. This can be helpful when parenting strain, abandonment concerns, or attachment issues show up in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Matthew will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. He adapts techniques over time based on what helps most in session and in daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let therapists and clients use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for ongoing support between sessions or for people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, Utah, Georgia, Idaho
- Languages
- English
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