About Matthew
Matthew Mobley is a licensed mental health counselor with more than 26 years of experience. He works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, addictions, grief, anger, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and ADHD. He aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and affirming.
Matthew uses a practical, person-focused style. Sessions begin with straightforward conversations about what is most pressing. He listens for strengths and builds small, achievable steps that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
Clients leave with clear ideas to try between meetings. His approach blends several therapy methods to match what each person needs. He draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
He also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice values and act on them, even when feelings are hard. Attachment-based and client-centered work guide how he builds trust and understands relationship patterns. Dialectical behavior strategies are brought in for skills like emotion regulation and crisis coping.
Matthew tailors methods rather than following a single formula. He has worked across a wide range of concerns, including trauma, parenting strain, caregiver stress, adoption and foster care issues, and complex personality and attachment patterns. Matthew encourages honest talk, practical planning, and steady skill building so people can handle life changes more effectively.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, and it often uses concrete exercises people can practice between sessions to reduce stress and improve mood.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. Together you can adjust techniques as you learn what works best for managing emotion, attention, or daily tasks.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving flexibility around schedules and communication styles. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports brief check-ins or written exercises between appointments. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces 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
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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