About Matthew
Matthew Digges is an Ohio-based therapist who focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. He uses straightforward talk and practical steps to help clients feel steadier and more in control. Matthew brings 11 years of experience and holds the LPCC credential, which is listed here as provided.
He works with a wide range of concerns including relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, grief, addiction, and ADHD. He also supports people facing career transitions, compassion fatigue, chronic illness, and body image or eating challenges.
Background and approach
His approach is aimed at real-life problems, not labels. Sessions emphasize collaboration and clarity. Matthew uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and shift behavior.
He also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to help people clarify values and tolerate difficult feelings without getting stuck. Attachment-based methods are used to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. Client-centered work keeps the pacing aligned with each person’s needs and priorities.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are an option for learning emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Matthew aims to create an affirming space for LGBT clients and others navigating identity-related stress. He prefers a practical, respectful style that balances empathy with specific skills training.
The focus is on small, doable changes that add up over time.
How Matthew’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions. It helps when life feels overwhelming or values and daily choices feel out of sync. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and practical problem solving. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationships shape current ways of relating and reacting, and it can help with persistent relationship and trust issues.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Matthew aims to figure out what fits each person’s goals, needs, and comfort level. He tailors the mix of ACT, CBT, attachment work, and other methods in collaboration with the client rather than using one fixed method.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let people work face-to-face when visual connection helps. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing coaching, quick check-ins, or skill practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and to use therapy in ways that match everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- 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
- 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
- Gender dysphoria
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- 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
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English