About Matthew
Matthew Digges is a licensed professional clinical counselor who helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, and LGBT-related concerns. He works with individuals who feel overwhelmed by stress, relationship strain, grief, or major life changes. His tone is direct and affirming, focused on practical steps and emotional safety.
He uses somatic insight alongside talk-based methods to help people notice how their bodies hold stress. That somatic focus is paired with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered conversation to clarify values and build coping skills.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas are used when helpful to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person. Matthew listens for patterns linked to attachment, identity, past loss, or chronic stress.
He pays attention to both feelings and bodily responses so clients can develop tools that work in daily life. Over eleven years of practice in Ohio have given him experience with a wide range of issues. These include addictions, intimacy concerns, parenting strain, ADHD, chronic illness, body image, and caregiving stress.
He also addresses less common topics such as kink-positive concerns and adoption or foster care-related issues. People who choose his approach can expect straightforward conversations, gentle curiosity about physical experience, and practical steps to cope better day to day. Matthew aims to help people build resilience, clearer self-understanding, and more satisfying relationships.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Somatic work pays attention to bodily sensations and movement as clues to stress and emotion; it can help people notice and shift physical patterns tied to anxiety or trauma. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed action even when difficult thoughts or feelings remain present. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connection styles shape current relationships and helps people build safer, more satisfying bonds.Choosing the right approach is often part of the therapy process. Matthew works collaboratively to see what feels useful and adjusts methods to match a person’s goals, needs, and comfort level. Over time the plan can change as small gains suggest new directions.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls when face-to-face conversation matters, phone sessions when video isn’t possible, and live chat or text messaging for brief check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and health needs while still using somatic attention and values-focused work in everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English