Matthew Dougherty
Compassionate, practical support for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Matthew
Matthew Dougherty is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York. He brings six years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on helping people navigate anxiety, depression, addictions, and major life changes. He also works with concerns such as stress, parenting, intimacy, and self-esteem in straightforward, goal-oriented conversations.
Matthew uses a practical, person-first style. He listens closely, asks clear questions, and helps clients set small, manageable steps.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on concrete skills and real-life problems rather than abstract theory. This direct approach aims to make progress feel possible between meetings. In practice he blends several evidence-informed methods to fit each person’s needs.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy inform how he structures work on thoughts, emotions, and relationships. He also draws on Motivational Interviewing and Narrative Therapy when exploring change and personal stories. Clients can expect a collaborative process that balances problem solving with reflection.
Typical topics include communication problems, coping with grief or trauma, sleep and eating struggles, career stress, ADHD-related challenges, and issues around identity and relationships. Sessions address both immediate coping and longer-term patterns. Matthew offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
He works within a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Language of service is English and international clients are not accepted.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person without judgment. In practical terms this means the therapist follows the client’s pace, reflects what they say, and centers sessions on what matters most to the client. It helps when someone needs space to clarify feelings and priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. Online CBT typically includes setting clear goals, identifying unhelpful thoughts, and practicing new skills between sessions. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep or eating concerns, and stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Matthew will cooperate with clients to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and personal preferences. That means trying techniques, discussing what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than imposing a single method.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging for flexibility. These options make it possible to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings. Many people find that a mix of formats helps them practice skills and stay connected to the therapist’s support.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
Next step
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