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Professional Collaborations
 Since a number of the people I work with have pre-existing therapeutic relationships, and sometimes loyalty to another therapist or modality, the issue of how I function as a healing partner in your personal network, is an important one. To begin with, I remain aware of this network and maintain respect for all wholesome influences in your life. As a family therapist, I’m quite aware of how unaddressed loyalties can complicate relationships, so as with anything else that comes up in the treatment situation, we work with your interpersonal world to maximize good boundaries, honoring of Self—and honoring all of your relationships. Based on what you need, it may make sense for me to be either your primary therapist or an adjunct therapist, providing bodywork and subtler forms of energetic and non-verbal awareness work in conjunction with another clinician.
As a couples therapist I maintain appropriate contact and hopefully, coordination, with the individual therapists of partners. Sometimes when I am working with an individual and it feels that bringing in the partner will dilute our one-on-one work, I carefully refer the couple to another therapist for the relationship piece. I believe that a gift I bring to the therapeutic process is my ongoing awareness of how historic and current bonds are impacting the person in front of me. The complexity or trickiness of your situation is only an opportunity to establish and maintain your authenticity, no matter what the terrain. A conversation about professional collaboration can be found
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> Audio, Videos > PodCasts > Newsletter Sign-up > Press/Interviews > Special Topics > Resources  “Matthew is the perfect therapist for a couple who senses there is a bond between them that could be quite wonderful--if day-to-day living with each other weren't so terrible! He has a rare gift for feeling into the true energetic connection between people and making that exquisitely foreground. A couple can have one session with him and leave feeling that all the defensiveness and reactivity they generate pales in comparison with the open-heartedness they are capable of. And because of his own open-heartedness — and clinical deftness — Matthew brings couples into their increasingly bigger vision of how a relationship could be.
Over the years I have referred a number of my individual clients to Matthew for both bodywork and couples work. I've never "talked cases" with him without seeing something I never saw before, not infrequently thinking, "I wish I had thought of that...." He is so clear, gentle and trustworthy that he is able to be in Truth with clients early on in treatment — where lesser therapists would generate defensiveness. Matthew simply gets to the heart of things and creates the deepest safety that makes real transformation possible.” Nancy Dreyfus, Psy.D. |
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