About Matthew
Matthew Schmeckpeper is a licensed mental health counselor with ten years of clinical experience. He holds an Iowa Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) credential and a Nebraska Licensed Mental Health Practitioner (LMHP). Matthew draws on years of work across community mental health, residential substance use treatment, and school-based behavioral health.
Matthew offers a calm, practical style in sessions. He listens closely and helps people name what feels overwhelming. He uses straightforward skills practice and encourages clients to try new responses between meetings.
Background and approach
His background includes work in outpatient and intensive outpatient programs, correctional treatment settings, and early development and mental health services. He has spent time supporting people affected by child abuse and those navigating substance use recovery. This range has shaped a flexible approach to care.
Matthew commonly helps with addiction issues, trauma and abuse, anger, stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, and problems with self-esteem and relationships. He also works with concerns such as parenting strain, coping with life changes, and issues tied to first responder or veteran experiences. In sessions Matthew draws on client-centered methods, dialectical behavior therapy, emotionally-focused ideas, existential questions, and mindfulness practices.
He focuses on practical tools like emotional regulation and motivation to help people make changes they want. He invites clients to set clear goals and to move at a pace that feels manageable.
Therapeutic approaches and online care options
Client-centered therapy focuses on the client's own experience and choices. It involves open listening and helping people set goals that matter to them, which can be useful for relationship concerns, life purpose questions, and self-esteem work.Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance. It often helps with mood regulation, impulsivity, anger, and addictive behaviors.
Emotionally-focused ideas look at how feelings shape connections and personal patterns. This approach can help people understand their emotional reactions and shift how they relate to themselves and others.
Matthew will work collaboratively to find the right mix of approaches. He will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together the therapist and client decide what methods to try and adjust as needed.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is useful for a full-session experience, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a brief check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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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