About Mattracea
Mattracea Wendleton is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and struggles with self-esteem. She supports those dealing with addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting strain, career questions, and life changes. Many clients also seek help for ADHD, compassion fatigue, and challenges tied to attachment or codependency.
She keeps sessions focused and straightforward. Conversations start with the client’s immediate concerns and move toward practical steps they can use between meetings.
Background and approach
She listens first, then suggests tools drawn from evidence-informed approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques and trauma-focused methods. Over seven years of practice, she has worked with people who have experienced abuse, loss, and other painful events. That background shapes a calm, steady style.
She aims to help clients process painful memories while building skills to manage mood, impulses, and relationship patterns. Her approach blends talking and active skills practice. Clients may learn ways to spot thinking patterns that feed anxiety, try behavioral experiments, and develop emotion regulation skills from dialectical behavior ideas.
For trauma-related symptoms, she may use methods that help process distressing memories safely over time. Mattracea practices in Missouri and holds an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor credential. Sessions are offered in English and available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She works collaboratively to match therapy to each person’s goals and pace.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience. The therapist creates a nonjudgmental space and follows the client’s priorities while offering support for emotional processing and decision-making.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with small behavioral steps. It is useful for anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and many everyday problems where thinking patterns drive distress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and reducing impulsive behavior. Skills training can help with emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication challenges.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and symptom patterns to decide which methods to try first. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most for the client’s daily life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into varied routines. Video sessions are good for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people schedule care around work, parenting, or other responsibilities while keeping the focus on progress and practical skills.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English