About Mathew
Mathew Roderick offers practical, talk-based therapy using approaches that help people understand and change unhelpful patterns. He focuses on clear, actionable steps to ease stress, anxiety and low mood. Mathew makes sessions straightforward and down-to-earth.
He explains options and works with people to set realistic goals. Mathew has six years of experience working with concerns such as eating and food-related issues, addictions, sleep problems and self-harm. He also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues and relationship stress.
How Mathew works
Additional areas of focus include body image, avoidant personality patterns, money worries and problems linked to sexual assault. In sessions he draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Motivational Interviewing and psychodynamic ideas to match the approach to the issue at hand. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect, and gives practical strategies to change them.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change, while psychodynamic work looks at longer-standing patterns that affect current life. Mathew works with adults concerned about career pressures, parenting strains, social anxiety and phobias, as well as people exploring non-monogamous relationships. He makes space for plain conversation about difficult topics like HIV, addictions and obsessive thoughts.
Sessions are offered in English and he practises from the United Kingdom. Mathew aims to make the first steps simple. He invites people to use a short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions that suit their life.
The focus is on practical progress, explained in clear language and paced to each person's needs.
Mathew lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Mathew works with
The areas below are the ones Mathew selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapy approaches you can use online
Mathew commonly uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Motivational Interviewing in online sessions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on how thoughts, feelings and behaviours connect and offers practical steps to reduce anxiety, improve sleep and change eating-related patterns. Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and can be useful for substance use, motivation for recovery and making lifestyle changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mathew will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then agree a way of working together. That collaboration makes it easier to try different techniques and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are like face-to-face meetings and work well for in-depth conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break or commute. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or people who prefer writing over speaking. These options give practical flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life.
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A practical next step
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