About Matthew
Matthew McGhee is a licensed clinician in Kansas with 16 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. He focuses on practical conversation and steady support to help clients move through hard moments. He aims to meet people where they are and build a plan that fits their life.
Matthew adapts his approach to each person. He uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow what matters most to the client and create a respectful space for talk.
Background and approach
He also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new patterns of behavior. Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy are used when people want clear steps and short-term goals. Sessions tend to be collaborative and straightforward.
Matthew listens first, then offers simple tools and experiments to try between meetings. He helps people address parenting stress, communication problems, control issues, and caregiver strain with concrete strategies. He also supports work on forgiveness, guilt and shame, and midlife or career transitions.
People often come for help with addictions and process behaviors like gambling or excessive exercise. Matthew works with mood disorders, self-esteem issues, and compassion fatigue as well. He speaks English and provides services from Kansas.
He describes the first step as a short matching process and scheduling a session. Matthew aims to keep therapy practical, respectful, and tuned to each person’s goals.
How Matthew’s Methods Work Online
Matthew often uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow what matters most to the person in the room. This approach emphasizes listening and reflecting so goals emerge from the client's priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with clear exercises that can be practiced between sessions. Finding the right approach is a team effort. Matthew will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try first. He adjusts plans over time based on what is helpful and what isn’t, keeping the process collaborative and flexible. Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video lets people read facial cues and practice skills together. Phone sessions work well when video isn’t possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins and step-by-step coaching easier to fit into a busy day. These options aim to make therapy more accessible and easier to use alongside daily life.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English