About me
Hello and welcome. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in the Virginia. My wife and I have been married for over 40 years, and we have two adult children and a grandchild. I worked for over 35 years in psychiatric hospitals and a community-based mental health and substance abuse settings. Throughout my professional career, I have offered counseling with couples, and families, helping them to overcome their struggles. My background in pastoral ministry spans over 40 years, with 16 of those being as an ordained minister. In addition to my master’s degree in Counseling I hold a master’s degree in Pastoral Ministry.
Over the years I have worked with couples from all walks of life. I've had clients from all faiths (and no faith) backgrounds.
I believe that you are the expert of your life. I will help you find ways to utilize your strength to overcome your struggles and move you from your current situation to where you want to be. If a faith tradition has been important to you, I am comfortable exploring those resources with you to help you achieve your goals in counseling.
I believe that life is about change, and real change in one’s life can start in the therapy session. If I can assist you in making the changes you need in your life, then I have been successful as a counselor. You can do this. You can feel better and achieve your goals. I'm looking forward to helping you do so.
Specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationships
- Family conflicts
- Trauma, Abuse
Grief , Parenting issues , Self esteem , Bipolar disorder , Depression , Aging and geriatric issues , Autism and Asperger Syndrome , Caregiver issues and stress , Codependency , Coping with natural or human-caused disaster , Read more...
Clinical approaches:
Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
Years of Experience: 34
Services offered
Messaging
Phone
Video
Licensing
VA LPC 0701002520
VA LMFT 0717000741
Reviews
These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Lawrence Matheny. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with Regain might be different.
Fantastic therapist. He understands.
Just simply put, Lawrence is a great guy and therapist. He’s helping my partner and I thru very difficult PTSD and Trauma we’ve both experienced in our past to help guide our future in the relationship to be more understanding and have better boundaries. He really gives great advice and tools to use to help us communicate amongst ourselves more healthily and productively.
Joining Regain and finding Lawrence as our therapist was the saving grace for my relationship with my boyfriend and I. We love each other so very much but have had so much tauma in our past that left us hesitant to communicate, trust and let down our walls. Our love was so strong and pure we knew there had to be a way to see each other's points of view. It is through Lawrence's guided communication techniques and metaphors that leaves us feeling understood, not broken. Accepted, not rejected. Ending each session understanding each other more and more is so contagious and infectious it really makes it easy to make our relationship and ourselves, as individuals, as priority.
The pricing is great as well. Affordable therapy let alone couples therapy not covered by insurance is so hard to find. The availability of telehealth and the affordability makes Regain a no brainer decision for us! So happy we made the commitment. Thank you Lawrence Matheny and Regain!
My partner and I have had a few sessions with Larry, and we really like him. Sometimes you have to shop around for a good therapist, but we were very lucky in finding him. He’s very knowledgeable and has many years of experience. We feel comfortable talking to him and that we’re heard and understood.
Our therapy with Larry was very informative and he gave us great, practical tools to resolve our issues and understand each other's points of view.