About Matthew
Matthew Tapia is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Arizona. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, parenting concerns, depression, and ADHD. He uses a down-to-earth style and aims to make sessions feel practical and approachable for worried parents and adults.
Matthew frames therapy as teamwork. He listens first, then helps clients set clear goals and small steps to reach them. Sessions tend to combine skills practice, problem solving, and chance to talk through what feels overwhelming in daily life.
Background and approach
His work draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness. That mix allows him to teach coping skills, build clearer communication, and help people manage strong emotions. He adapts techniques to fit each person's needs and pace.
Matthew has eleven years of clinical experience. He has worked in independent practice and nonprofit mental health settings as a clinician, supervisor, consultant, and trainer. That background includes supporting people with autism and Asperger syndrome, caregiving stress, anger, trauma, and life transitions.
People often come for help with family and parenting strains, career stress, grief and change, or struggles with self-esteem. Matthew aims to make therapy useful each week, so clients leave with concrete ideas to try between sessions.
Practical approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, life changes, and challenges like ADHD when the focus is on action over avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into linked thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns, which often helps with depression, anxiety, and stress. Mindfulness-based techniques teach simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus during everyday tasks.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Matthew works together with clients to identify goals, try approaches, and adjust based on what feels helpful. That collaborative process helps tailor tools to parenting demands, relationship goals, work stress, or attention challenges so therapy fits each person's life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls are good for full sessions and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can support quick check-ins, and messaging can be used for brief updates or between-session support. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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