About Matthew
Matthew Kiefer is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and big life changes. He offers straightforward care for concerns like depression, addiction, parenting strain, and mood disorders. Matthew holds LPC and LCPC credentials and practices from Utah.
He communicates in clear, encouraging language and works to make therapy feel approachable. Matthew uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new responses.
How Matthew works
He also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take small steps toward them. Attachment-based work guides conversations about early relationships and how they still affect daily life. His sessions aim to be collaborative and adaptive.
People can expect an interactive style that balances skill-building with space to process emotions. Matthew pays attention to patterns that fuel stress, anger, or relationship difficulties and helps clients experiment with new ways of coping. Over 11 years of work in mental health contribute to his clinical judgment and practical focus.
He has experience with trauma, abandonment and foster care issues, autism and attachment challenges. That background informs how he supports people facing complex or overlapping concerns. Therapy is offered in English through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging.
Matthew uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling follows the platform matching and booking process.
Matthew lists 13 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)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- 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.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Utah |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and to choose actions that match their values. This can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where motivation and clarity are the goal. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns and testing small changes to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and problem behaviors. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connections and helps people try different ways of relating when old patterns cause distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Matthew will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Sessions often blend approaches so practical skills, emotional processing, and relationship patterns are all addressed together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different schedules and needs. Video lets people work face to face when visual cues help the process. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be simpler for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick support, written reflection, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or busy days.
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