About Matthew
Matthew Digges is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) in Ohio with 11 years of experience. He focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, ADHD, and identity-related concerns. He offers calm, straightforward support and practical tools rather than jargon or quick fixes.
He uses clear, goal-oriented conversations to help clients notice patterns and try new ways of coping. Sessions often include skills practice, small experiments between meetings, and steady check-ins on what’s working.
Background and approach
Matthew aims to make therapy feel manageable so people can use what they learn in daily life. His work draws on several approaches that match different needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and change behavior.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify values and take meaningful action. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are brought in for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when needed. Matthew also integrates attachment-based and client-centered ideas to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space.
He pays attention to past relationships and current patterns so clients can build healthier connections. People who have faced trauma, identity challenges, or complicated life changes often find this combined approach useful. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit busy schedules.
Conversations are collaborative - Matthew works with each person to shape goals and pick the tools that make sense for their life.
How Matthew blends approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters most and taking committed steps toward those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It can help people who want to move past avoidance and reconnect with meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving frustration tolerance, often used when strong emotional reactivity gets in the way of daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and life demands, then pick and adapt methods that fit. This is a collaborative process where techniques are tested and adjusted over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video helps preserve face-to-face connection, phone calls can be easier with limited bandwidth, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text messaging works well for brief updates or ongoing coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- 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
- 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
- Gender dysphoria
- 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
- 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)
- Relationship issues
- 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
- Traumatic brain injury
- 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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