About Matthew
Matthew Lawson helps people who are facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, disordered eating, low self-esteem, or career uncertainty. He combines talk therapy with attention to healthy habits to support motivation and lasting change. Matthew is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC with 14 years of experience in Colorado.
He often brings a whole-person view to therapy, linking thoughts and feelings with daily routines and physical activity. As a certified personal trainer in addition to his counseling work, he helps people build sustainable habits around movement, nutrition, and sleep when those areas matter to progress.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps. Matthew listens for what matters most to each person and then works with them to try small, manageable changes. He aims to make therapy feel direct and useful rather than overwhelming.
Matthew also pays attention to identity, culture, and relationship structures. He can talk through concerns related to adoption and foster care, body image and disordered eating, multicultural stressors, and non-traditional relationship styles such as polyamory or kink when those topics are relevant. People who choose him tend to want a mix of emotional exploration and concrete skills.
He supports work on motivation, emotional eating, day-to-day anxiety, and steps toward career clarity. The approach is collaborative and focused on what will move the person forward.
Approaches and online options for whole-person care
Matthew often combines evidence-based techniques that focus on both thoughts and behaviors with practical lifestyle coaching. Cognitive approaches help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns that fuel anxiety or low self-esteem, and can be paired with skills for managing day-to-day worry and social anxiety.Behavioral strategies emphasize small, repeatable actions that shape habits over time. This can look like structured steps to address emotional eating, consistent movement routines that support mood, or gradual exposure to reduce social fears. These methods work well for stress, motivation, and body-image concerns.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Matthew works with each person to prioritize goals, try techniques, and adjust based on what helps. He discusses options openly and tailors the plan to the client's needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer practical flexibility. Video is useful when seeing facial cues matters, phone calls need less bandwidth, live chat provides a short check-in option, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These choices make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English