About Matt
Matt Givens is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing relationship strain, trauma, grief, anxiety, addiction, and life changes. He brings 16 years of clinical experience and prefers practical work that aims for clearer communication and more manageable day-to-day coping. He sees therapy as a place to rebuild connection and grow strengths.
Sessions focus on honest conversation, learning new skills, and trying small changes that add up.
How Matt works
Matt works with people who want help around intimacy, parenting challenges, career stress, or feeling stuck at midlife. Matt uses approaches that match each person's needs. He draws on client-centered methods to keep discussion focused on the person's priorities.
Cognitive behavioral tools help identify unhelpful thinking and develop new habits for stress, anxiety, and mood concerns. For people with trauma, Matt offers EMDR, an approach that can reduce lingering distress after traumatic events. He also uses elements of the Gottman Method to address communication and conflict in close relationships.
These approaches are mixed into sessions in straightforward ways that clients can practice between meetings. He works from Indiana and conducts sessions in English. Matt aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can test changes, repair ruptures, and move toward clearer goals.
Those looking to begin are invited to follow the usual intake steps to see if his approach fits their needs.
Matt lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Matt works with
The areas below are the ones Matt selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LIMFT, LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches for online healing and relationship work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's priorities, helping people feel heard and guiding conversations toward what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress by changing unhelpful habits.Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is offered for people coping with traumatic memories. It involves structured processing of distressing memories to reduce the strong reactions they trigger and can help with lingering symptoms after a traumatic event.
Figuring out the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they choose methods to try and adjust the plan as needed so therapy stays useful and focused on real-life changes.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation when that helps progress. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people share brief updates, get coaching between sessions, or follow up on homework without scheduling another call.
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