About Matthew
Matthew Manz is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing anxiety and everyday stress. He works with individuals who are dealing with relationship strain, low self-esteem, grief, parenting challenges, and changes at work or home. Matthew takes a straightforward, people-first approach.
Sessions focus on what is happening now and what feels most hard. He listens, asks clear questions, and helps clients set practical goals they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
He uses methods that encourage people to examine their thoughts, rewrite unhelpful stories about themselves, and build clearer communication habits. That might mean practicing new ways to respond during conflict or testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or improve mood. Matthew has six years of experience as a licensed mental health counselor.
He carries the credential LMHC and works from a perspective that values each person’s history and choices. He also supports people working through codependency, control issues, divorce or separation, and family of origin concerns. Sessions are aimed at helping people cope with life transitions, manage workplace stress, and repair or improve intimacy-related problems.
The work blends listening, skill-building, and collaborative planning so clients leave with steps they can use between sessions.
Approach-driven care delivered online
Matthew blends client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and narrative therapy to help people manage anxiety and life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience so they feel heard and respected and can set their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, examines thought patterns and tries practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from the problems they face by looking at the stories they tell and considering new, more helpful narratives.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Matthew collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and preferences. That could mean leaning more on CBT exercises for anxiety, using client-centered listening to clarify goals, or employing narrative techniques to reframe long-standing issues.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for a full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people share thoughts between sessions and get support without scheduling a full call. These options aim to make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work and life commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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