About Matthew
Matthew "Matt" Redfearn helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, low mood, anxiety or relationship strain. He speaks plainly and offers steady support while people talk through what is causing them distress. Matt uses a respectful, non-judgemental style that encourages people to build on their own strengths.
Matt has three years of professional experience and holds NCPS. He has worked with people facing depression, motivation and confidence problems, anger, grief and common life transitions.
How Matthew works
He also supports those coping with addiction-related challenges and intimacy or attachment concerns. In sessions he focuses on practical change alongside emotional understanding. He uses approaches that help people notice unhelpful thought patterns, try different responses and set short goals.
Sessions aim to be collaborative so people leave with clear, doable steps they can try between meetings. People sometimes come with issues tied to family of origin, blended family strains, adoption and foster care, or the stresses of ageing. Matt also offers help around communication problems, commitment worries, and navigating kink and alternative sex culture when that is relevant.
He practises in the United Kingdom and runs sessions in English. Matt welcomes people who want to work through both day-to-day pressures and deeper, longer-standing difficulties, and he supports clients as they try out new ways of coping and relating.
Matthew lists 3 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How his approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and helping people discover their own answers. It suits people who want empathy and support while they make sense of difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and helps people test new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Matt will discuss goals and preferences and try different methods as needed. That means therapy is collaborative - the person and the therapist decide together what feels most helpful and adjust along the way.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make attendance easier. Video lets people work face to face from another location, phone needs less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, and chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options give flexibility so people can keep progress moving even when life is busy or schedules change.
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