Matthew StClair

My communication style

I prioritize two things in sessions. First, your goals will direct our work, and I want you to follow your intuition and thoughts to their end. I listen more than I speak. Second, I come to sessions prepared with different ways to look at the situation, useful interventions, and possible ways forward.

My journey to mental healthcare

I've always been intrigued by how some people make it out of challenging situations like addiction, child abuse, and poverty, and some do not. I wanted to make it my profession to understand the underlying factors that determine different outcomes. It's been rewarding to apply what I've learned about change, resilience, and pain.

My goals for you

I utilize multiple modalities to reach the goals we establish together. Typically, I assign homework to continue the work outside our time. I believe the reasons you don't accomplish homework are equally revealing and important. Within that attempt tends to be where the actual barrier to change is.

Our first session

Our first session will be an opportunity for us to get to know one another. We'll accomplish a thorough holistic assessment of your past while balancing the importance of the problem that brought you here. I describe it as a process of zooming in and zooming out.

I identify as...

• Cis, Male
• Caucasian or White
• Christian, Mormon, Non-denominational