Matthew McGhee
Practical support for stress and relationships
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed in
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Matthew
Matthew McGhee is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 16 years of experience. He practices in Kansas and focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. He uses straightforward talk and clear steps to address problems rather than clinical jargon.
Matthew emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in sessions. He adapts conversations and plans to fit each person's situation. That means listening first, then choosing approaches that make sense for the issue at hand.
Background and approach
Sessions often break big problems into small, manageable steps to reduce overwhelm and build confidence. Matthew draws on methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and client-centered work to guide change. He also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused tools when a client is ready to set goals and take action.
These approaches help with mood, coping with life changes, and problem behaviors. He helps people tackle specific concerns such as parenting stress, work pressure, addictive patterns, and communication problems. Matthew also addresses issues like guilt, forgiveness, and midlife questions in a practical way.
Conversations are aimed at clearer choices and healthier routines. For parents and caregivers feeling stretched thin, he offers grounded strategies to manage stress and improve family interactions. Matthew keeps language simple and offers steps clients can try between sessions.
He encourages small experiments that can lead to steady improvement over time.
Approach-driven care available online
Matthew often uses client-centered work which means the conversation follows the client's priorities and builds on their strengths. This approach helps when someone needs to feel heard and make sense of their situation before taking action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and experiments. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress that get in the way of daily life.Choosing a method is a collaborative process. Matthew will listen to your goals and preferences and then suggest approaches that fit. He adjusts plans as you try strategies and learn what helps most, so the work evolves based on your feedback.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. These formats let people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between appointments. They also make it easier to follow through on real-life experiments and homework in the context where problems occur.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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