About Matthew
Matthew McKinley helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. He also supports those dealing with addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep problems, parenting strain, anger, career questions, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Matthew is an Ohio LPCC - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor - with six years of practice experience.
Matthew aims to make therapy feel practical and approachable. Sessions focus on clear, doable steps rather than long lectures.
How Matthew works
He encourages honest conversation and keeps the tone direct but warm. Humor and everyday realities are welcome alongside harder topics. His work blends several approaches to meet real problems.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful patterns and try small behavioral experiments. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports identifying values and taking steps toward them even with uncomfortable feelings. Client-Centered work keeps the person’s experience at the center of each session.
Matthew also draws on elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for emotion regulation and Existential Therapy to tackle meaning, purpose, and tough questions about life. He tailors methods based on what a person needs and what works in practice. Progress is measured by changes in day-to-day life rather than theory alone.
Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Matthew works in Ohio and conducts therapy in English. He does not take international clients.
Matthew lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
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.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- 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
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Approach and options for online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It emphasizes choosing actions that match personal values so life moves forward even when emotions are hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings connect and uses brief experiments and practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes accepting the person’s experience and building a respectful, collaborative relationship so people can find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. From there he will suggest methods to try and adjust them as needed, keeping the client in charge of the process.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and make regular work on goals more practical.
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