Matthew Schmeckpeper
Practical support for parenting and life challenges
- Credentials
- LMHC, LMHP
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Iowa, Nebraska
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Matthew
Matthew Schmeckpeper is a licensed mental health counselor with licenses in Iowa and Nebraska. He has ten years of clinical experience and a background across community mental health, school-based services, residential substance use treatment, and correctional settings. He uses practical, straightforward talk to help people manage hard moments.
Matthew focuses on common family and parenting concerns alongside addictions, trauma, mood issues, anxiety, and stress. He also addresses problems such as anger, self-esteem, and relationship struggles.
Background and approach
His work includes support around fatherhood issues, first responder and veteran concerns, and recovery from domestic violence or substance use. He draws on several therapeutic methods. Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT - helps with emotion regulation and coping skills.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy - EFT - is used when relationships and attachment are central. Client-centered work keeps sessions grounded in each person’s goals and experience. Sessions tend to emphasize clear strategies and real-life skills.
Matthew talks through practical steps, emotion management tools, and ways to change patterns that cause pain. He aims to meet people where they are and shape therapy to their needs. Licensed as an LMHC and an LMHP, he practices in Iowa and offers multiple online formats.
Sessions are offered in English and structured to fit everyday schedules.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following each person's goals. It helps people feel heard and decide what changes matter most in their life. Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT - teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships. It is useful when intense emotions or impulsive behavior cause problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy - EFT - looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people change how they connect and respond to each other.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Matthew will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision can change over time as progress is made and new issues come up.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options let people fit therapy into busy days, continue care from home, and use different ways of communicating when needed. The variety of formats supports flexible scheduling and keeps treatment accessible while still focusing on skill-building and emotional work.
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.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Iowa, Nebraska
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Matthew
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- Stop at any point