About Matthew
Matthew Kiefer is a licensed professional counselor with more than a decade of experience. He focuses on helping people who are juggling stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, or big life changes. He works in a direct, warm, and encouraging way to make conversations feel manageable.
He uses straightforward strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and change unhelpful habits. He also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotions feel overwhelming, and attachment-based ideas when early relationship patterns keep showing up in adult life.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and tailored to what matters most to each person. Matthew has experience supporting people through parenting strain, blended family challenges, adoption and foster care issues, and attachment concerns. He has worked with people facing trauma and abuse, as well as mood conditions such as bipolar disorder and disruptive mood dysregulation.
He aims to meet people where they are without labels or judgment. His approach is conversational and interactive. He mixes skill teaching, real-world practice, and encouragement so people can try new ways of coping between sessions.
He shifts methods to fit a person’s needs rather than following a single script. Based in Utah, Matthew offers video, phone, live chat, and text messaging sessions. He encourages an honest first step and helps people build concrete plans for change.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small steps toward them while making space for difficult emotions. It can help when people feel stuck or unsure what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, identifies unhelpful thoughts and patterns and replaces them with practical strategies you can use day to day. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Matthew will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. He adapts methods based on the person’s needs so therapy stays relevant and practical rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging provide shorter check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different formats to see what works best.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, Utah, Georgia, Idaho
- Languages
- English