About Matthew
Matthew McGhee is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with 16 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and work through relationship and parenting challenges. He aims to treat each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Matthew keeps conversations practical and direct. He tailors sessions to match what each person needs and wants. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, achievable steps that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
In sessions he draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. He also uses client-centered methods to listen closely and follow the person's priorities. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused tools help when people want to change habits or handle specific problems faster.
People reach out to him for a wide range of concerns like depression, coping with life changes, work stress, ADHD, and different kinds of addictions and process behaviors. He also supports those dealing with guilt, shame, forgiveness questions, and midlife shifts. Matthew works with people who need straightforward help improving communication, managing anger, or navigating infidelity and jealousy.
He emphasizes practical skills, real-world problem solving, and steady progress over time.
How Matthew’s Approaches Translate Online
Client-centered work means the therapist listens first and follows the person's lead to figure out what matters most. That approach helps when someone needs space to sort feelings or wants steady support while making decisions.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches simple exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful online for anxiety, stress, mood concerns, and behavior change because homework and practical tools travel well across video or text.
Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and build motivation step by step. This approach pairs well with short-term planning and can speed progress when someone is unsure about next steps.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Matthew will collaborate with each person to choose which methods to use based on goals, preferences, and how they respond. That way sessions stay relevant and adjust as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for full conversations and demonstrations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or ongoing encouragement. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different ways of connecting depending on the moment.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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