About Micki
Micki Matthews is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas. She draws on ten years of clinical experience to help people find calmer ways to cope with stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. Micki focuses on practical tools parents and individuals can use day to day to feel steadier and more purposeful.
Micki takes a person-centered approach that centers each session on what matters most to the client. She blends mindfulness exercises with straightforward coaching to reduce anxious thoughts and improve self-esteem.
Background and approach
Sessions are built around the client's goals rather than a fixed agenda. When trauma or loss is part of the story, Micki uses trauma-focused strategies alongside mindfulness to create safer ways of processing difficult memories. She also uses solution-focused techniques to identify small, achievable steps that lead to change.
These methods are chosen to match the problem at hand and the client's comfort level. Micki offers support for relationship strain, communication problems, parenting challenges, and issues connected to family of origin. She also works with people facing burnout, compassion fatigue, or questions about life purpose and self-love.
Her work includes attention to LGBT and women's issues when they are relevant. Her style is direct but warm. Sessions aim to be practical and doable, with tools clients can try between visits.
Micki encourages steady progress through small, consistent changes rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Micki often combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Mindfulness Therapy to support people online. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values, which is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses sessions on the client's concerns, offering a respectful space to talk and make decisions at the client's pace. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple breathing and attention skills to reduce anxious rumination and improve emotional regulation.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Micki will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how different methods might feel in practice. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for in-depth conversation and teaching exercises, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setup is needed. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins, coaching, or step-by-step problem solving easier to fit into a busy day. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to keep up with regular work and family commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English