About Matthew
Matthew Menard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania with 12 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. He also works with issues like trauma and abuse, parenting strain, grief, and identity matters related to LGBT concerns.
He uses clear, respectful conversation to understand what matters most to each person. Sessions are shaped around individual goals and the challenges a person brings.
Background and approach
He emphasizes practical steps people can try between meetings to build lasting change. Matthew draws from approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based work. That mix helps address thoughts, behaviors, and the patterns that show up in close relationships.
He also uses elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and client-centered care when that fits a person's needs. Over his career he has supported people facing eating and sleeping problems, anger and self-esteem struggles, career stress, and coping with life changes. He also helps people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, and questions around intimacy and body image.
Matthew aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through hard topics and try new ways of coping. He frames therapy as a partnership and will work with each person to develop a plan that fits their life.
Online approaches that focus on values, thinking, and connection
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when emotions or worry feel strong. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep, and eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past and current relationship patterns shape feelings and behavior and can be helpful for intimacy issues, codependency, and attachment struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Matthew will discuss these methods with each person and adapt the mix based on individual needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process helps set priorities and choose exercises or skills likely to be useful in day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people meet face-to-face from wherever they are, phone sessions can be a good option when video is not possible, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing contact and brief coaching between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into work, caregiving, and travel schedules while maintaining continuity of care.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- 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
- 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
- LGBT
- 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)
- 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
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English