About Matthew
Matthew Tapia is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and life changes. He works in Arizona and draws on more than a decade of experience to support practical problem solving and steady progress.
Background and approach
He prefers a team approach with clear goals. Sessions focus on real skills you can use between meetings, such as communication tools and coping strategies.
He meets people where they are and adapts methods to fit daily life demands. Matthew's background includes work in independent practice and nonprofit mental health settings.
He has supported people facing depression, trauma and abuse, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and caregiving stress. He has also worked with issues connected to autism and Asperger syndrome and with blended family and fatherhood concerns.
His style draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness. That mix helps with emotion regulation, shifting unhelpful thinking, and building values-driven action.
Treatment plans are collaborative and focused on practical change. He has experience as a clinician, consultant, supervisor, and trainer, and brings those roles into how he organizes care.
People who prefer straightforward, skill-based work that also makes room for personal values tend to do well with his approach.
Online approaches that teach skills and values
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to sit with difficult feelings. It is useful for worry, life transitions, and getting unstuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and building new behaviors through practice. It helps with anxiety, depression, and problem-solving in daily life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and current challenges. That may mean combining ACT and CBT techniques or adding mindfulness and DBT skills based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a brief break at work or be used when bandwidth is limited. Chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, homework support, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to keep momentum and practice new skills between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California, Arizona
- Languages
- English