Kim Matte
Practical support for stress and life changes
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kim
Kim Matte is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience. She focuses on common and painful concerns such as stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and self-esteem. Parents and adults who feel overwhelmed by life changes or caregiving responsibilities will find straightforward support and practical ideas.
Kim practices in Massachusetts and works in English. Kim uses clear, down-to-earth conversation to help people name what is hard and try small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
She often blends client-centered talk with cognitive behavioral tools and mindfulness exercises. Sessions are aimed at building coping skills, improving communication, and reducing overwhelming feelings. Her work includes support for people facing illness, chronic pain, or end-of-life caregiving.
She also helps with workplace stress, relationship strains, and major transitions like divorce or loss. Kim pays attention to how practical pressures and emotions interact in everyday life. Therapy with Kim is collaborative.
She listens first, then offers techniques that match a person’s needs and preferences. The focus is on steady progress rather than quick fixes, with an emphasis on resilience and realistic steps forward. Kim’s background in social work shapes an approach that balances empathy with problem-solving.
Her aim is to help people regain a sense of control, reconnect with what matters, and find ways to cope that fit their daily routines.
Approaches to online care and how they help
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience. The therapist follows the person’s lead and creates space for them to talk through what matters most, which can help with stress, grief, and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses clear steps and experiments to test and change unhelpful patterns, which can reduce anxiety, panic, and low mood.
Finding the right approach is a team decision. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to the person’s goals, preferences, and daily life. It is common to blend techniques and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions suit those who prefer voice only, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy caregiving schedules, workdays, and times of limited mobility.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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