About Matthew
Matthew Federici offers direct, practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or substance use. He is Matthew Federici, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with ten years of experience. He speaks English and aims to make sessions straightforward and goal-focused.
He uses common-sense strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral ideas and acceptance-based approaches. Sessions often include clear steps to manage symptoms, small experiments to try between meetings, and skill-building for emotion regulation and communication.
How Matthew works
Matthew pays attention to how past attachment experiences shape current relationships and reactions. Clients bring concerns such as grief, trauma, addiction, anger, low self-esteem, and complications around intimacy or parenting. He also supports people facing career shifts, chronic health challenges, caregiving stress, and issues like ADHD or body image.
Matthew adapts techniques to each person's situation rather than following a single formula. His background includes work in general mental health and substance use settings since 2016. That experience informs a practical, problem-focused style that combines listening with concrete tools.
Expect sessions that balance understanding with here-and-now strategies you can use after the appointment. The practice emphasizes collaboration. Matthew helps set clear goals and checks progress regularly.
If action plans need adjusting, he reviews them together and tries a different approach until something fits.
Matthew lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Matthew works with
The areas below are the ones Matthew selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. This approach is often used for anxiety, mood struggles, and sleep or eating issues.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current reactions and closeness with others, which can help with intimacy issues, abandonment worries, and communication problems.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Matthew will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust plans together as progress is tracked. The focus is on matching tools to what actually helps the person move forward.
Online sessions offer flexibility across formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging can support brief updates, moment-by-moment coaching, or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different life circumstances.
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