Matthew Pearce, LCSW

Matthew Pearce is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Florida who helps people facing trauma and abuse, family conflict, parenting challenges, anxiety, depression, and stress. He also supports those dealing with self-esteem, addictions, anger, relationship struggles, and major life changes. He welcomes straightforward conversations and practical planning to help people move forward.

Matthew draws on six years of direct therapy experience alongside a longer social work career. He works in a collaborative, respectful way that centers each person's strengths. Sessions focus on clear goals and small steps that fit into daily life. He encourages people to build plans, set achievable targets, and notice progress.

His approach includes client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior methods, mindfulness, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. Matthew uses these methods to help with trauma processing, emotion regulation, negative thinking patterns, and coping skills. He adapts tools to what each person needs rather than following a single script.

He has experience supporting parents and young adults with future planning and family-related concerns. He also brings knowledge of adoption and foster care issues, attachment and abandonment concerns, and caregiver stress. Matthew emphasizes practical strategies people can use between sessions.

People who choose to work with Matthew can expect a respectful, goal-focused process. He invites people to name what matters most and to try steps that build toward clearer choices and better daily functioning. To begin, follow the site’s matching steps to connect and schedule.

How specific approaches are used in online therapy

Client-centered work focuses on listening and following the person's priorities. The therapist helps people name their goals and supports them in finding their own solutions to problems like family stress or low self-esteem.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses straightforward exercises to spot unhelpful thinking and to practice different behaviors that reduce anxiety or depression.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, provides a structured way to process troubling memories and reduce the emotional intensity tied to them. It is often used for trauma and related symptoms and is applied step by step with attention to comfort and pacing.

Finding the right method is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Choices about which techniques to try are made collaboratively and can change over time as progress is tracked.

Confirm the session formats available before booking, since this profile does not list specific online options. Online therapy can make scheduling easier and cut travel time, so sessions can fit around work, school, or caregiving. It also lets people use exercises, worksheets, and check-ins between meetings to reinforce progress without promising a particular delivery method.