About Matt

My life has been marked by:

  • Serial Relationship Failures

  • Addiction Struggles

  • Sexual Issues

  • Divorce & Family Blending Challenges

  • Inability to Connect with my Children

  • Inability to Focus & Career Problems

  • Bankruptcy, Foreclosure & Chronic Financial Challenges

  • Intense Shame & Inner Criticism

  • Isolation and Loneliness

  • Religious Trauma

  • Childhood Physical and Emotional Abuse

I experienced constant emotional suffering for the first 40 years of my life, and I suffer a lot less today. Things shifted as I attended more than 100 IFS Therapy Sessions over the course of 2 years.

Now I’d like to share these tools with you. I am very skillful with the IFS Model. I’m a consummate IFS Nerd, having read many books, consumed countless podcasts, talks and online training videos. Several IFS Therapists who I’ve worked with in trainings and retreats have validated that I should be a Parts Coach. I’m told I have an intuitive knack for finding and supporting parts.

I completed the Circle Training with IFS Institute and officially “IFS Informed” in their eyes. I’m in the process of completing a Mental Health Coaching Certification with iNLP, which uses a parts model.

I am not a therapist and coaching is not psychotherapy. I am qualified to work with common mental health challenges, not diagnosable mental health disorders. If during our work we realize a professional therapist is more appropriate to your needs, I will refer you to a therapist.

I’m also very comfortable working with:

  • Neurophysiology, Somatics and Polyvagal Theory

  • Attachment Theory

  • Neuro Linguistic Programming

  • Eastern & Nondual Philosophy & Spirituality

  • The Words of Jesus Christ

  • The Collective Sexual Shadow & Patriarchal Wound

  • Shamanic Healing & Psychedelic Integration

I’m 43 years old, have 3 adult kids and I’m married for the second time, this time happily. I’ve been a small business owner most of my life in the software space. When I’m not improving my mental health coaching skills I like to camp, work in my wood shop or do construction projects on my Arizona property.