Matt Temple (He/Him)

Approach Description: My approach to therapy is integrative and person centered. I use ideas, techniques, and philosophies from various approaches depending on the situation, issue, and appropriateness. While I draw from various approaches and continue to learn, I describe myself as fundamentally existentialist. I believe that a significant amount of our anxiety comes with our struggle to make sense of our own existence and what it means. We grapple with anxieties about death and dying, isolation, meaninglessness, and freedom and responsibility. Meanwhile, we often do not realize that these feelings are running in the background. I also believe that to be human is to be in relationship. We are at all times in relationship with our selves in this world and with those around us. And yet so many of our struggles come from and/or manifest in these relationships. Coupled with an existential approach, I use a Self-in-relationship psychotherapy approach. I use this to help you explore how you have come to be the way that you are, accept the goodness in yourself, and develop painful experiences into growth and healing.