About Matthew
Matthew Durdovic is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Arizona who focuses on helping people facing addictions, attention challenges, and low self-esteem. He speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps feel manageable. He values a respectful working relationship where the person’s strengths are central to change.
Matthew combines thinking-focused strategies with a human-centered approach. He helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and practice different ways of responding.
Background and approach
At the same time he prioritizes building trust so people feel heard and understood. In sessions he works on concrete concerns like motivation, concentration, memory, and coping with life changes. He also supports people navigating compassion fatigue, guilt, and struggles with self-love.
Practical tools and small behavior changes are part of the plan, not just talk. He brings eight years of professional experience as an LCSW in Arizona. That background includes work with a variety of addiction-related concerns and process addictions such as problematic pornography, exercise, and gambling.
Matthew centers the person’s own goals when shaping therapy. Therapy with Matthew is collaborative. He encourages people to name what matters most and try manageable steps toward it.
Progress is tracked in real time and adjusted as needs shift.
Practical approaches and online care
Matthew often uses cognitive approaches that focus on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns. These methods help with motivation, negative self-talk, attention struggles, and decision-making by breaking larger problems into manageable steps.He also draws on humanistic techniques that emphasize the therapist-client relationship and a person’s strengths. This approach supports building trust, increasing self-worth, and finding motivation from personal values rather than just symptom reduction.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals, try options, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. Clients shape the direction of work and the therapist offers tools and feedback along the way.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more interaction is helpful. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, while live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, journaling-style reflection, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and adapt it to daily life.
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- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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