✓ Adolescents ✓ Adults ✓ Family ✓ Couples
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Matt graduated in 2008 with a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Sam Houston State University, and in 2012 with a Doctorate degree in Supervision, Curriculum, & Instruction – Higher Education, specializing in Psychology from Texas A&M University-Commerce. One of his focal points in clinical psychology is the role nutrition plays in the affect, cognition, and behavior of people. Specifically, he is interested in the maladaptive relationships some individuals have with food, centering around compulsive overeating/binge eating behavior and the connection with processed food addiction. He has extensive informal training in nutrition as it pertains to those issues and as a formal extension of those interests, he completed the certificate program in Plant-Based Nutrition from eCornell in 2016 and an additional Master’s degree in Nutrition from Lamar University in 2020. Matt is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Texas.
Matt has worked in the field of psychology in the academic realm of higher education since January 2009 as a college educator and has provided academic guidance and counseling to college-level students from a variety of backgrounds and age groups. He is currently focused on working with teenage and adult clients on relationships, parenting, career/academic guidance, maladaptive eating behaviors (binge eating/processed food addiction), and LGBTQ-related issues.
Matt takes an eclectic approach to therapy, where numerous techniques are utilized from different methods of psychotherapy and theory. He predominantly works from the humanistic, cognitive, behavioral, and solutions-based perspectives.
