About Matthew
Matthew Mobley is a licensed mental health counselor in Indiana with 26 years of experience. He helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and relationship and intimacy concerns. He also supports those facing addiction, sleep problems, parenting strain, ADHD, and major life changes.
Matthew uses a straightforward, person-focused style. He listens first and treats each person with unconditional positive regard. Sessions are practical and tailored to what someone needs that week, whether that means skill building, problem solving, or simply talking through a hard time.
Background and approach
He draws on a mix of approaches, including cognitive behavioral tools, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, and dialectical strategies. Those methods are used to help with mood regulation, coping with painful memories, improving communication, and making clearer choices about values and goals. Matthew describes therapy as a collaborative process.
He encourages people to try skills between sessions and to notice what helps in daily life. Progress is framed as small, steady steps toward feeling more able to handle stress and relationships. Prospective clients can expect practical guidance paired with a calm, respectful presence.
Matthew emphasizes each person’s strengths and works to create helpful routines and communication patterns. He values clear goals and realistic steps toward them.
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting driven by them and to choose actions that match personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems going and then practicing new ways of responding; it often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and mood regulation. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions, which can be helpful for intimacy issues, communication problems, and some trauma responses.Finding the right approach is a joint process. Matthew will work with each person to identify goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. If one tool isn't working, he will adjust the plan and encourage concrete practice between sessions so people can see what helps in everyday life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone can be lower bandwidth and easier on the go, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging helps keep progress moving between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into work, school, and family routines while still working with licensed professionals.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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