Welcome to Dr. Matthew Decter’s practice, where therapy is a personalized journey tailored to honor the uniqueness of each individual.
Understanding that every person embodies a distinctive tapestry of relationships, challenges, aspirations, beliefs, and resilience, Dr. Decter’s approach to therapy resonates deeply with the philosophy that no two paths to healing are identical. With a profound respect for the intricacies of human experience, his practice is founded on the belief that therapy must always embrace this individuality.
Dr. Decter works with you to cultivate a collaborative working relationship based on earned trust, openness, clarity around the nature of your problems and acute focus on the shape of effective solutions.
Dr. Decter is expert in a broad range of behavioural and cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) approaches and techniques for helping clients with anxiety and depression, PTSD and many other types of problems.
Dr. Decter is also very experienced in employing emotion focused and psychodynamic approaches for intensive short-term and long term depth work with clients. All of Dr. Decter’s work with clients is informed by his training and knowledge of both psychological science and mindfulness practice. As a registered clinical psychologist all of the interventions that Dr. Decter employs have a strong science and evidence base.
Dr. Decter believes that psychotherapy must always be individualized as every human being is different and special with their own history, relationships, problems, goals, values and strengths. Dr. Decter believes therapy is most effective in an atmosphere of unconditional acceptance and non-judgmental openness as this helps clients feel free and empowered to explore their problems, feelings and thoughts with close attention, understand their problems deeply, heal, become stronger, and arrive at long-lasting solutions and durable change.
As mentioned, Dr. Decter has an abiding interest in mindfulness-based therapies, which he uses in almost all of his work with clients. These evidence-based approaches promote stable attentional focus and decrease unhelpful reactivity to emotions or in relationships and allow clients to let go of worry, rumination, and over-thinking. Dr. Decter uses a range of mindfulness-based techniques in his practice with clients to help with diverse difficulties. One powerful approach that has wide applicability to diverse psychological problems is Mindfulness-Integrated Cognitive Behavior Therapy (MiCBT) an evidence-based therapeutic program, applicable to anxiety problems, depression, chronic pain, trauma as well as personal development and growth.
Dr. Decter strives to provide a calm, safe setting where clients can begin to heal, learn to grow, strive to thrive, and ultimately flourish.
Dr. Decter’s first goal with any client regardless of their problem is to provide a secure, safe, non-judgmental environment where clients feel empowered to face difficult problems and feelings, manage and master their thoughts and live more effectively.
Fundamental to this is the co-creation of a strong, positive, collaborative relationship where there is clarity and agreement regarding a client’s problems and goals and the means that will be used to create positive change.
Non-judgmental acceptance is one of Dr. Decter’s central values because so many clients come into therapy because they either feel judged or denigrated by others or by their own self-critical thoughts. Dr. Decter is very conscious of this and will listen to you without judgment and work with you to cultivate a collaborative working relationship based on earned trust, openness, clarity around the nature of your problems and acute focus on the shape of effective solutions.
Take the first step towards a healthier, happier you. Schedule a consultation with Dr. Matthew Decter today and embark on your personalized journey to emotional wellness. Your brighter tomorrow starts here.
