Matthew Furlong
Compassionate counseling with practical tools
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Matthew
Matthew Furlong is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with 25 years of experience. He focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and major life changes. He speaks plainly and helps clients name what feels hard and take manageable steps forward.
Matthew believes clients know their own stories and brings steady guidance to help build on existing strengths. Matthew draws from Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space.
Background and approach
He uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, to spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. Existential ideas also shape conversations about meaning, values, and choices when life feels uncertain. Sessions tend to be collaborative and straightforward.
He works on things like self-esteem, motivation, communication problems, and navigating grief. Matthew also addresses relationship strain, parenting concerns, anger, and intimacy-related issues in a practical way. Parents reading this will find clear, step-by-step support rather than abstract theory.
He frames goals in everyday terms and checks in often to adjust the plan. The focus is on small changes that add up to better coping and clearer decision making. For people dealing with trauma, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, or ADHD-related challenges, Matthew offers a steady, experience-based approach.
He aims to reduce isolation and shame while helping clients build skills they can use outside sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on respect and listening. The therapist mirrors what clients say, honors their perspective, and helps them find their own solutions. This approach is helpful when someone needs a steady, accepting space to talk through stress, self-esteem, or family concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. It involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and mood problems. CBT tends to be practical and skill-focused, useful for day-to-day coping and for managing symptoms like worry or avoidance.
Existential Therapy brings conversations about values, meaning, and choice into sessions. It helps when life changes or uncertainty make decisions feel heavy, and it supports people who want clearer priorities rather than quick fixes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as needed so the approach fits the client, not the other way around.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, follow up between meetings, and get consistent support without extra travel. For many people, remote sessions allow steady progress while keeping therapy accessible and adaptable.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
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