About Matthew
Matthew Menard is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 12 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and find clearer ways forward. He brings a direct, respectful approach and aims to make the first step feel manageable.
Matthew adapts conversations and plans to fit each person's situation. Sessions are practical and focused on what the client wants to change. He often works on relationships, trauma and abuse recovery, parenting concerns, grief, and mood struggles such as depression and bipolar symptoms.
Background and approach
He uses tools that teach new skills for managing intense feelings and difficult thoughts. That can include short exercises, real-world practice between sessions, and clear goals to track progress. Matthew emphasizes compassion and sensitivity while keeping the work grounded and useful.
People may come for help with self-esteem, anger, sleep or eating issues, career strain, or the stress of caregiving. He also addresses concerns related to identity and LGBT experiences, attachment and abandonment, ADHD, and co-occurring problems. The focus is on steady steps and practical coping strategies.
Matthew welcomes international clients in English. He supports clients who want a mix of skill-building and talk therapy and who appreciate a collaborative, goal-oriented process.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. It often includes practical homework and short experiments to test new ways of responding.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying tools together, checking progress, and adjusting the plan when something isn't working.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone wants a simpler check-in. Live chat and messaging let a person send brief updates or work through skills between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the therapeutic focus consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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