About Matthew
Matthew Lawson is a licensed professional counselor in Colorado with 14 years of experience. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, disordered eating, low self-esteem, and career questions. He also supports issues around body image, social anxiety, and multicultural or identity-related concerns.
Matthew takes a practical, whole-person approach. He combines talk therapy with attention to daily routines, movement, and healthy habits. His background as a certified personal trainer informs how he talks about motivation, exercise, and eating without shaming.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, doable steps that add up over time. He aims to make sessions straightforward and goal-oriented. Conversations cover what feels most urgent, then build a plan that fits each person’s life.
Matthew encourages skill practice between meetings so progress continues outside session time. People who want to change habits, improve mood, or feel clearer about career direction often choose his style. He works with topics that include adoption and foster care experience, alternative sexual culture like BDSM and kink, and non-monogamous relationships, approaching each with openness and respect.
Matthew centers collaboration and practical problem-solving. He listens for values, strengths, and barriers, then helps people try new routines and ways of thinking. The aim is to help clients feel more able to handle daily stresses and move toward goals they set for themselves.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Matthew uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and stress. This helps with social anxiety, worry, and low mood by giving concrete skills to try in daily life.Another approach focuses on behavior change by setting small, achievable steps. That method supports issues like emotional eating, motivation, and building healthier routines. It pairs well with conversations about values and life purpose to keep goals meaningful.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist and client review what’s working and adjust methods based on needs, goals, and preferences. Clients are invited to try techniques and give feedback so the plan can shift if something doesn’t fit.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling flexible. Video helps recreate face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, childcare, or other busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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