About Matthew
Matthew Christensen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma. He meets people where they are and moves at a pace that feels right for each person. His approach is warm, straightforward, and focused on practical steps that fit everyday life.
Matthew draws on about 13 years of experience in mental health work in Idaho. He uses a person-centered stance that prioritizes respect and dignity.
Background and approach
That means conversations tend to be collaborative and paced by the client rather than rushed or scripted. He also blends techniques from cognitive behavioral work and acceptance-based approaches to help people change unhelpful thinking and act in ways that match their values. Sessions often include skill-building, goal setting, and simple exercises to try between meetings.
Matthew supports people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, anger, and intimacy-related concerns. He also focuses on issues like ADHD, chronic pain and illness, codependency, and post-traumatic stress. His experience includes working with substance use and the emotional fallout of separation or loss.
In sessions he aims to create a calm, down-to-earth space to talk things through and experiment with new ways of coping. He encourages small, realistic steps toward clearer goals. That practical focus helps people find clearer direction and reduce the overwhelm that brought them in.
How Matthew brings therapy approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while focusing on what matters most. It emphasizes small actions that align with personal values and can help with anxiety, depression, and chronic stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors influence each other and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, mood issues, and ADHD-related challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Matthew will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. From there he recommends methods or mixes approaches so therapy fits the person rather than forcing a single model.
Online formats include live video sessions, phone appointments, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or practicing skills between meetings. These options make scheduling more flexible and allow therapy to fit around work, parenting, and travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English