About Matthew
Matthew Menard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 12 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood changes, and challenges related to relationships and parenting. He also works with concerns such as trauma, grief, ADHD, self-esteem, and career transitions.
Matthew uses a straightforward, respectful approach. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs and goals. He aims to make conversations practical and understandable, so people can try changes that fit their everyday life.
Background and approach
His work draws on several evidence-based methods. Matthew uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns. He adds acceptance and commitment tools to help clients clarify values and commit to small, meaningful steps.
Attachment-informed ideas guide work on relationship and intimacy issues. Dialectical behavior strategies are used when emotional regulation and strong reactions are barriers to functioning. Client-centered attention keeps the process grounded in the person's experience.
Matthew welcomes people from diverse backgrounds, including those in the LGBT community and those coping with chronic illness or caregiving stress. He supports people dealing with complex concerns like co-morbidity, adoption-related issues, and body image. Conversations begin where you are and move at a pace that feels doable.
Matthew emphasizes collaboration, practical skills, and steady progress toward the changes you want.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Matthew often blends cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It can help with anxiety, mood concerns, and sleep or eating issues. ACT teaches skills to notice thoughts without getting stuck and to commit to actions that match personal values, which helps with motivation and coping.He also draws on attachment-informed work to address relationship and intimacy issues. That approach looks at patterns of relating and helps people try new ways of connecting or setting boundaries. Matthew will work together with clients to find the best mix of methods based on needs, goals, and personal preferences rather than assuming one path fits everyone.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill practice, phone calls can fit busy schedules or low-bandwidth needs, and chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or when someone prefers written reflection. These options make it easier to fit care into work, caregiving, or travel routines while keeping a consistent therapeutic process.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- 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
- 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
- LGBT
- 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)
- 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
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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