About Matthew
Matthew Federici is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and addictive behaviors. He speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. He has 10 years of experience working in Florida and brings a steady, direct approach to sessions.
People often come to him for help with relationship struggles, anger, self-esteem, grief, and trauma. He also supports people dealing with sleep and eating issues, parenting strain, career transitions, and ADHD.
Background and approach
He works with concerns that overlap, such as chronic illness, caregiver stress, codependency, and blended family challenges. Matthew blends several approaches in session. He uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and tolerate difficult feelings.
He draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. He also uses attachment-informed ideas and client-centered listening to build trust and understand relational patterns. Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-oriented.
Clients can expect clear strategies, short-term skills practice, and attention to longer-term patterns that keep problems returning. He pays attention to past losses, abandonment issues, and how early relationships affect current life. Matthew works with adults across a range of life changes and mental health challenges.
He provides sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging and conducts an initial match to make sure his style fits each person.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients notice difficult thoughts and feelings while taking actions that match their values. This approach is useful for anxiety, stress, addiction, and life changes because it focuses on what matters and small steps toward it. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy targets patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going, offering specific exercises and homework to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and sleep disturbance. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current ways of relating and helps people change repeating patterns in close connections.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean starting with skill-focused CBT exercises, then shifting to ACT for values work, or using attachment ideas when relationship patterns show up in sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different rhythms of life. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions are an option when video is not possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skills practice, and when someone prefers writing between or instead of longer sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving, and daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- 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
- 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
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English