About Matthew
Matthew Menard uses a practical, person-centered approach to help people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma, parenting struggles, and other life challenges. He is a licensed professional counselor, LPC, with 12 years of experience working with a wide range of issues. Matthew writes in clear, direct language and focuses on concrete steps people can try between sessions.
He adapts sessions to each person's needs, listening first and then suggesting strategies that fit daily life.
How Matthew works
His work often brings together cognitive-behavioral ideas, acceptance-based skills, and attention to attachment patterns. Matthew pays attention to how past experiences shape current reactions and helps people build new ways to cope. Clients can expect a respectful, down-to-earth tone in sessions.
Matthew aims to create space for honest conversation without judgment. He emphasizes small, achievable changes that add up over time and supports people as they try new approaches. Over his 12 years in practice he has helped people with depression, grief, self-esteem, anger, intimacy concerns, and challenges such as ADHD, bipolar disorder, caregiving stress, and chronic health issues.
He also addresses topics like body image, adoption and foster care concerns, and kink and alternative sex culture in an open way. Matthew sees therapy as a collaborative process. He works with clients to set realistic goals, track progress, and adjust the plan when needed.
Sessions are practical, focused, and shaped around what matters most to the person seeking help.
Matthew lists 14 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
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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
- LGBT
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Using Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then clarify personal values to guide action. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to change mood and functioning, which is often helpful for depression, anxiety, and sleep or eating concerns.Choosing the best approach is part of the work together. Matthew will ask about your goals and preferences and then recommend techniques from ACT, CBT, or other approaches that fit your situation. This is a collaborative process that can shift as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video lets you have a fuller conversation with visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, quick coaching prompts, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different life rhythms.
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