About Matthew
Matthew Mobley is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Texas with over 22 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and anger. He also supports people dealing with grief, intimacy and relationship problems, parenting strain, and career stress.
Matthew aims to make the first step toward change feel doable and not overwhelming. He creates a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk through what matters most.
Background and approach
Sessions center on the client's goals and immediate needs. Conversations are practical and focused on steps a person can try between meetings. Matthew draws from several methods to match what each person prefers.
He uses client-centered listening to understand a person's perspective. He also applies cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Mindfulness practices and solution-focused planning are used when people want tools for staying present or for quick, goal-directed work.
Motivational interviewing helps people who are unsure about change or who want to build readiness for recovery from addictions. The overall approach is collaborative. Matthew talks with people about their options and helps choose strategies that fit their life.
The focus is on small, practical steps that add up to meaningful change.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on attentive listening and reflecting back what someone says to help them clarify feelings and goals. It helps when someone needs understanding and validation before choosing a plan of action.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thought and behavior patterns and teaches practical skills to change them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many everyday stressors because it breaks problems into manageable steps.
Mindfulness techniques train simple present-moment awareness and short practices to reduce reactivity. These tools can support emotion regulation and improve concentration for people juggling busy lives.
Finding the right blend of methods is part of the work. Matthew will collaborate with each person to identify what feels most helpful and adjust methods over time based on progress and preference.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let a person talk face to face from wherever is convenient. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is a concern. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, quick coping strategies, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, a break, or a hectic family schedule.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English