Matthew Clausen started his private practice when he moved to Boulder, CO. He completed his master’s degree in Marriage and Family Counseling at Gonzaga University. While in Spokane, he interned for Community Behavioral Health Services, part of CCEW. There, he worked with adults from 18 years old to their seventies, he worked with couples both married and unmarried, and he worked with children and their parents on a wide set of issues. Matthew also helped expand the clinic’s outreach to families transitioning to housing security and navigating huge life changes for themselves, their partners, and their children.

Since his undergrad years in college, Matthew wanted two careers: first, a career to build financial security, then, a career focused on being of service to others. After 16 years of marketing, management, and entrepreneurial experience, Matthew started over and became a mental health therapist.

Therapy is, fundamentally, about the strength of the relationship between a person and their therapist. The same is true in couples and family therapy. Matthew focuses on hearing and understanding you, as a person, beyond just your words. From that experience, relationships build and therapeutic change begins to happen.

When you start therapy with Matthew, you feel seen as a unique person with an interesting and valuable life. Therapy here has no template or predetermined formula: it is a customized, interactive, empowering experience meant to help you achieve the life you want to live going forward.

As a therapist, Matthew combines Person Centered, Attachment Theory, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and research on couples’ dynamics by John and Julie Gottman. This creates a versatile, evidence-based approach to treatment that respects those with whom he meets.

Now, let’s get back to you. You’re here because you are struggling, or someone you care about is. Please, take the first step right now towards feeling better: