Matthew Kiefer
Skilled, practical help for family concerns
- Credentials
- LPC, LCPC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- South Carolina, Utah, Georgia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Matthew
Matthew Kiefer is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people manage family and parenting challenges. He brings a direct, warm style to sessions and aims to make conversations feel approachable. He uses everyday language and simple tools so parents feel understood and able to act.
Matthew holds LPC and LCPC credentials and works from Utah. Matthew draws on about 11 years of clinical experience. He has worked with many concerns, including depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, ADHD, grief, addictions, and relationship and communication problems.
Background and approach
He also supports people facing parenting stress, blended family issues, adoption and foster care questions, and caregiver burnout. In sessions he blends practical skills with a compassionate, collaborative tone. He uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
He also uses attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns that affect family life. Matthew favors a client-centered stance that keeps conversations focused on the person in front of him. He offers emotion regulation tools adapted from dialectical behavior therapy when stress or strong emotions get in the way of daily life.
He adjusts the pace and techniques to match each person’s needs. Parents can expect clear, action-oriented steps along with space to talk about how life feels. The work is practical and goal-focused, but also attentive to early attachment wounds and ongoing stressors.
Matthew aims to help people build more workable routines and better communication at home.
How Matthew Uses Therapy Methods Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It is often useful for stress, anxiety, and life changes where someone wants practical steps to move forward.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach can be helpful when family and parenting dynamics or past loss are getting in the way of connection and day-to-day functioning.
Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person’s experience and choices. It creates space for people to lead the topics while the therapist offers empathy, reflection, and gentle guidance.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Matthew collaborates with clients to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. He adapts tools from different therapies and checks in together to see what helps.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules. These options provide flexibility for people who need brief check-ins, regular weekly sessions, or a way to use skills between meetings. Licensed professionals can use these formats to practice skills, troubleshoot parenting challenges, and maintain progress without as many logistical barriers.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, Utah, Georgia, Idaho
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Matthew
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point