About Matthew
Matthew Harvey is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and addiction. He focuses on practical support for career worries, relationship strain, parenting pressures, grief, and trauma. He aims to help people build confidence and find clearer direction in life.
Matthew works from the view that each person is the expert on their own life. He listens for strengths and supports clients in using those strengths to make changes.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented, with encouragement and gentle challenge when useful. In therapy he uses proven, evidence-based techniques to address mood symptoms, coping skills, and problem areas such as anger, control issues, and isolation. He also helps people sort through financial stress, midlife questions, and struggles tied to identity or past hurt.
Conversations move at the client’s pace while keeping practical steps in view. Matthew brings three years of professional experience in Tennessee and holds a Tennessee Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW 7272. He offers support for people who are navigating life changes and looking for tools to manage emotions and make clearer choices.
Sessions may include coaching-style work alongside therapeutic conversations. The aim is to expand coping options, reduce distress, and help people take manageable steps toward the life they want.
Approaches and Online Options for Practical Change
Matthew uses evidence-based techniques that focus on skills and problem-solving. One approach emphasizes building coping skills for anxiety and mood challenges through structured exercises and practice in everyday situations. This helps people manage symptoms and feel more in control of daily life.Another approach centers on exploring patterns that maintain unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, then testing new ways of responding. This kind of work is useful for issues like low self-esteem, anger, and addictive behaviors because it breaks cycles and creates clearer choices.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Matthew works with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they adapt methods so therapy fits the client’s needs and pace rather than forcing a single style.
Online therapy offers practical benefits that match his way of working. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper discussion. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins and coaching-style support possible between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English