Matt Givens , LIMFT, LMFT

Matt Givens is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Indiana with 16 years of clinical experience. He frames the decision to begin counseling as a deliberate step toward growth and refocusing on personal strengths, acknowledging that taking that first session often requires courage. Rather than viewing help-seeking as a sign of weakness, he presents therapy as an opportunity to receive support and learn practical skills that can make daily life more manageable and more fulfilling.

Givens emphasizes that change is nurtured through acceptance and connection. Reconnecting relationships is a central pathway to improvement, whether that involves the therapeutic bond between practitioner and client, rebuilding ties between parents and children, or strengthening partnerships. His aim is to provide a nonjudgmental therapeutic relationship that enables individuals, couples, and families to pursue healing, growth, and repair. He works with a wide range of concerns including relationship and family struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, stress and anxiety, addictions, parenting challenges, self-esteem and career questions, depression, coping with life changes, coaching needs, and compassion fatigue.

Givens holds LIMFT and LMFT licenses - credentials that indicate he is a licensed marriage and family therapist, with registration details of OH LIMFT F.1100016 and IN LMFT 35001663A. He integrates client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), existential therapy, trauma-focused approaches, solution-focused strategies, the Gottman Method for couples, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) when appropriate. These evidence-informed methods support work on both symptom management and relational repair. Therapy is provided in English.