Life gets messy. Let’s look at it together.
Telehealth psychotherapy for adults in Maryland, Virginia, and California.
Notice what it took to get here. The part of you that is tired of circling the same thoughts, the part that needs something to shift. That part deserves attention, space, and a steady presence alongside it.
This is a place for depth. A place where we slow down, stay with what is real, and make room for the fuller complexity of your experience. That’s where we’ll begin.
Let’s begin where you are
Now that you’re here, pause for a moment.
Meet Matthew
The heart of effective therapy is the connection between us. If you’re considering working together, I invite you to learn more about who I am and how I approach therapy below.
People seek therapy for many different experiences, and my practice focuses on a range of areas where I’ve seen meaningful growth and change. This list evolves as I continue learning alongside clients and refining my approach.
Common struggles, different doorways
Healing Family Patterns
Growing up with emotionally immature or unavailable parents can lead to worry, people pleasing, self criticism, or losing touch with your own needs. Understanding these patterns can ease anxiety or depression and help you reconnect with what feels authentic and grounded.
Emerging Adults
College and early adulthood often bring self doubt, pressure to define yourself quickly, and waves of uncertainty about the future. Many navigate independence, relationships, academic demands, and questions about identity, purpose, and belonging while feeling stuck, low, or restless.
Men’s Inner Life
Depression and anxiety in men can show up as irritability, emotional numbness, burnout, or disconnection from relationships and meaning. Cultural expectations around masculinity quietly shape emotional expression, and self worth, and exploring these patterns can help foster a deeper connection with oneself.
Connected Parenting
Parenting naturally amplifies stress, emotional triggers, and reactivity, especially during conflict, exhaustion, or big life changes. Noticing these patterns and responding with calm, flexibility, and intention can make challenges more manageable and relationships more connected.
Relational, Depth-Oriented Psychotherapy
My approach to therapy provides a space to notice patterns, understand emotions, and align your life with what matters most. This work is relational and attachment-informed, rooted in humanistic, existential, ACT-informed, and interpersonal approaches. Feeling genuinely understood and emotionally met often matters more than any specific technique.
From our first session, the focus is on building trust, empathy, and collaboration. Rather than following a preset formula, therapy is something we create together, shaped by who you are, what you carry, and what unfolds between us. Paying attention to the here-and-now, including patterns in interactions and present emotions, often provides the clearest path to insight and growth. Humor, imagery, and creative exploration help make complex experiences more tangible, offering moments of insight, relief, and understanding.
By blending humanistic and existential perspectives with skill-based tools, including concrete strategies informed by Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) and thoughtful psychoeducation, and thoughtful psychoeducation, people navigate immediate challenges while exploring deeper questions of meaning, freedom, and connection.
While this work is relational and depth-oriented, it often overlaps with techniques from CBT, DBT, and other familiar approaches, particularly around awareness, values, and practical coping tools. It adapts to each person rather than following a strict protocol. The focus is relational, exploratory, and grounded, offering a steady space to understand yourself, your relationships, and your life in a way that feels authentic, meaningful, and fully alive.
Therapy is, at its core, a shared human process. I show up as a fellow traveler, exploring what it means to live with clarity, presence, and authenticity. Together, we develop new ways of relating to yourself, your emotions, and the world in ways that feel grounded, meaningful, and true to who you are.
True empathy is sitting with another at the window of their world,
bearing witness to their view, letting none of their humanness feel alien.