About Matt
I spent over a decade in my own therapy — working with different practitioners, approaches, and ways of understanding myself. More than anything, it taught me this:
Real change doesn't happen by forcing harder. It happens when you slow down, tell the truth about your life, and begin listening to what's trying to emerge.
That process eventually led me here.
Before becoming a therapist, I spent many years living a creative life — making music and working as a voiceover artist in New York City. I know what it's like to feel called toward something that doesn't fit neatly into the world as it's currently structured — and the questions of identity, purpose, worth, and direction that can come with that.
Along the way, I was fortunate to find mentors who helped me make sense of my inner world, challenge old patterns, and trust my deeper intuitions. My aim is to offer that same kind of grounded, honest, and transformative space to the people I work with.
My clinical foundation is in depth psychotherapy. I hold a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, with an emphasis in Marriage & Family Therapy. I've also completed advanced training in attachment-based couples therapy (PACT), Internal Family Systems work, and somatic psychotherapy — approaches I continue to integrate into my work today.
When I'm not working, I'm strumming my guitar, hiking desert trails, goofing around with my wife, or getting lost in hard-boiled crime fiction.
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Pacifica Graduate Institute—Master’s in Counseling Psychology
McGill University—Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
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PACT Level I & II: Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy
PACT Couples Therapy Consultation Group
The Body Knows—Certificate in Somatic Psychotherapy with Wendy Elliot
IFS Circle (Internal Family Systems)
EFT Externship (Emotionally Focused Therapy)