About Matthew
Matthew Sniscak is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania with 14 years of experience. He focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, career worries, relationship problems, grief, or life changes. He aims to make the first step easier by offering a calm, straightforward approach to talking through concerns.
He listens with a client-centered stance and helps people notice what matters most to them. Matthew uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and from acceptance and commitment therapy to build values-driven action.
Background and approach
He also draws on mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation and coping. Matthew often works with parents facing parenting strain and caregivers managing compassion fatigue. He also supports people dealing with trauma, obsessive thoughts, panic, or difficulties tied to family of origin and attachment.
Sessions focus on usable strategies and small steps that fit everyday life. Expect a collaborative process where goals are set together and reviewed along the way. Sessions may include skill practice, thought work, and planning real-world experiments to test new ways of handling problems.
He describes therapy as a mix of listening, practical coaching, and skill teaching. Matthew holds the Licensed Professional Counselor credential, abbreviated as LPC. He offers sessions in English for people located in Pennsylvania and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Matthew commonly integrates acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy into online work. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on helping people clarify their values and take small committed actions, even when difficult feelings arise. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify and shift unhelpful thinking patterns and build practical skills for anxiety, panic, or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the collaboration. Matthew will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and try methods that fit their situation. Together they track what helps and adjust the plan over time so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and exercises. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and messaging let people share updates and practice skills between sessions. These options aim to give flexibility and steady access to licensed professionals and therapists.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, New Jersey
- Languages
- English