Collaborative
You are the authority on your life. I bring training, framing, and patient curiosity — and we name what's working and revise what isn't, out loud, together.
Therapy for the strong one everyone leans on.
Telehealth psychotherapy for adults in New York, Maine, Delaware, and Florida. A real back and forth that doesn't pretend the room is empty — from wherever you are.
You perform well. Nobody would guess.
The job runs. People get the calm version of you. You hold the week together yourself — work, family, the next decision. Inside, the threat-scanning never quite turns off. It lives where nobody looks, and you've gotten very good at carrying it alone.
Most people don't realize what the fog was until someone names it.
Burnout that isn't depression. Anxiety hiding behind competence. Roles a difficult parent assigned you years ago that still run the day. The wear left by someone who wore you down while you adjusted around them. It moved in over years. You made room without deciding to.
This is a real back and forth.
You talk, I talk back. We look at what followed you in here, give it its clinical name, and work out what to do about it — out loud, together. Fourteen years on exactly these patterns: you won't have to explain why you didn't just leave, or just quit, or just say no.
You do the walking, and I don't do it for you.
You are the authority on your life. I bring the training and walk one step to the side — close enough to be useful, never in front. The fog thins where you point the light. I won't do the work for you, and I won't leave you alone with it either.
The fog looks smaller from out here than it ever did from inside.
Hypervigilance eases a notch. The boundary holds without the rehearsed speech. The fog is still back in the trees — that's the honest part — and it reads smaller every time you check. You keep walking.
You arrive on your own two feet, which was the point of how we worked.
Good therapy ends with you needing it less. A free 20-minute call is where it starts — and if I'm not the right fit, I'll say so and point you somewhere better. That's not a pitch line; it's the first boundary you'll watch me keep.
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Telehealth only · NY · ME · DE · FL · Out-of-network, superbills provided · Adult individuals, weekly
Music: DRAMER — Depeche Mode Tribute DJ Set
Music: DRAMER — Depeche Mode Tribute DJ Set
The End
- Written & Directed by
- Matthew Sexton, LCSW, NATC
- NATC
- Narcissistic Abuse Treatment Clinician
- THE WORK
- Narcissistic abuse recoveryBurnout & moral injuryHigh-functioning anxietyComplex PTSDExecutive pressure & isolationHealthcare worker & clinician therapyAdult children of difficult parents
- THE HOUSE RULES
- Collaborative · Depth-oriented · Boundaried
- Music
- DRAMER — Depeche Mode Tribute DJ Set
Focus areas
The work I do best.
Not every therapist should treat every condition. These are the patterns I know from the inside — clinical training, fourteen years of practice, and credentialing as a Narcissistic Abuse Treatment Clinician (NATC).
— 01
Narcissistic abuse recovery
You spent years being told your memory of events was wrong — and now you check your own perception the way other people check the weather. Parent, partner, or boss: the aftermath runs the same. We reality-test what happened, build boundaries that hold, and take the internalized critic's badge away. This is the work the NATC credential is for.
Read more — 02Burnout & moral injury
You trained for one world and landed in another. The gap between what you know how to do and what the system allows isn't a personal failing — it has a name: moral injury. Common in physicians, founders, and clinicians. We treat the structural reality. No resilience lecture.
Read more — 03High-functioning anxiety
You prepare for every outcome, catch what others miss, and rarely look anxious from the outside. The competence is real; so is the exhaustion underneath it. We work on the threat-scanning, the catastrophic preparation, and what happens when the performance stops — on purpose, safely.
Read more — 04Complex PTSD
The danger may be over, but your body, your sense of self, and your relationships still organize around it. Complex trauma reaches past classic PTSD — dysregulation, shame, identity, attachment. We use a structural approach, not exposure alone, because the injury was structural too.
Read more — 05Executive pressure & isolation
Everyone escalates to you; there is nowhere obvious for you to escalate. Founders, partners, senior clinicians, attorneys — identity drift, decision fatigue, and a loneliness with excellent compensation. This is a confidential room where the role comes off without consequence.
Read more — 06Healthcare worker & clinician therapy
Moral injury, compassion fatigue, system burnout — plus the specific weirdness of being a clinician who needs clinical care. I've spent fourteen years inside healthcare. You won't have to re-explain the dynamics, the acronyms, or why you can't just take a sick day.
Read more — 07Adult children of difficult parents
If a narcissistic, borderline, or antisocial parent raised you, the damage is specific: chronic self-doubt, a punishing inner critic, a childhood role — the responsible one, the peacekeeper, the invisible one — that still runs your adult life. Most people don't realize the parent was the problem until the pattern is named. Naming it is where we start.
Read moreHow I work
Three commitments, kept across every session.
The pace and shape of the work adjust to the person. These three don't.
Depth-oriented
Symptoms are usually downstream. We trace them — to relationships, to history, to the systems you're inside — instead of only managing whatever surfaced this week.
Boundaried
Clear frame, clear scope, clear endings. No PHI by email, no between-session crisis line, no drift into coaching. The container is what makes the work safe — for both of us.
Licensure & telehealth
New York · LMSW / LCSW
Maine · LCSW LC22776
Delaware · LCSW
Florida · LCSW
Licensed in New York (LMSW/LCSW), Maine (LCSW LC22776), Delaware (LCSW), and Florida (LCSW). Telehealth sessions only — you must be physically located in one of those four states at the time of each session, because telehealth is regulated by the state where the client sits, not where the clinician sits. The practice is out-of-network: sessions are $225, paid at time of service, and I provide a monthly superbill for clients seeking partial reimbursement through PPO out-of-network benefits.
Recent writing
Notes from the practice.
Short, occasional, low-jargon — written for people who are working with, or working around, someone difficult, while everyone assumes they're fine.
Schedule a consult
A 20-minute call to see if this is the right fit.
Tell me a little about what's bringing you in and what you've already tried — most of my clients tried self-sufficiency first, for years, and it nearly worked. We'll talk briefly, decide together whether working with me makes sense, and if it does, schedule a first full session.
No fee for the consult. No commitment. If I'm not the right person, I'll tell you and try to point you somewhere better.
Please don't include protected health information (PHI) in this form. We can go into specifics on the call.
This practice is not a crisis service.
If you are in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, this form is not the right channel. Call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), call 911, or go to your nearest emergency room.
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