Matthew Mateika
Compassionate, practical counseling for real-life struggles
LMHC Florida
- Experience
- 9 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Anger
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Matthew
Matthew Mateika is a Florida-based Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with nine years of clinical experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, trauma, mood disorders, and challenges in relationships and intimacy.
Background and approach
He approaches each client as an individual, taking time to build a collaborative working relationship and tailoring interventions to fit a person’s unique pace and goals.
He draws from a range of therapeutic methods, including cognitive behavioral techniques, client-centered work, emotionally-focused strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to address concerns like depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting and career stress, compassion fatigue, and identity or LGBT-related issues.
His prior roles include work in a university counseling department and serving as lead clinician in a residential substance abuse program, experiences that shaped his flexible, partnership-oriented style. Matthew aims to help clients identify practical changes, develop coping skills, and move toward meaningful improvements in daily functioning and relationships.
Approaches That Guide Online Work
Matthew commonly integrates cognitive behavioral techniques with client-centered and emotionally-focused methods. Cognitive behavioral approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with more effective strategies, which can help with anxiety, depression, addictions, and sleep or eating concerns. Client-centered work emphasizes empathy, validation, and a nonjudgmental therapeutic partnership that supports personal growth and coping with life changes. Emotionally-focused strategies attend to patterns in relationships and attachment-related emotions to help improve intimacy and communication.Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the collaborative process. He will work with clients to explore which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences and adjust the plan as progress unfolds so the work stays practical and personalized.
The online format offers flexible access through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing people to engage in therapy from varied locations and at different times. These options make it easier to maintain continuity, practice skills between sessions, and choose a communication style that feels most comfortable for each person.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
9+ years
Licensed
Florida
Languages
English