About Matthew
Matthew McKenna is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in New York. He focuses on common struggles like stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship strain, family concerns, and depression. He aims to make the first step easier for people who are unsure where to begin.
Matthew keeps sessions straightforward and practical. He listens first, then helps people name what feels overwhelming. Together they set small, realistic goals and try steps that can be practiced between meetings.
Background and approach
Sessions are a place to talk through immediate worries and build coping skills for day-to-day life. Over seven years of work experience has given him exposure to a wide range of concerns. He has supported clients facing obsessive thoughts, phobias, seasonal mood changes, and compulsive behaviors.
He also addresses issues such as grief around end-of-life care, hoarding, and process addictions like gambling or exercise when these come up in therapy. Matthew pays attention to how relationships and family roles affect stress and emotional well-being. He helps people navigate infidelity, jealousy, blended family dynamics, and patterns that repeat across relationships.
He also supports people managing intellectual or developmental differences such as autism or intellectual disability when these relate to daily functioning. Sessions are conducted in English and he accepts international clients. He offers flexible formats to suit different schedules and needs, so people can find a way to make therapy fit their life.
How practical therapy and online options work together
Evidence-based techniques are used to help people manage anxiety and stress in clear, usable ways. For example, cognitive-based strategies focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxious reactions. Behavioral approaches emphasize small, concrete actions that build confidence and reduce avoidance, which can be useful for phobias, compulsions, and process addictions.The right approach often emerges through collaboration. The therapist will listen to current concerns, goals, and personal preferences, then suggest methods that feel most applicable. Together they will try approaches for a few sessions and adjust based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video lets people work face to face for deeper conversation. Phone calls are helpful when bandwidth is limited or when a person prefers not to use video. Live chat or messaging can be used for quick check-ins, short skill practice, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different time zones.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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