Matthew Hoss

I am available on Tuesday, wednesday and Friday evenings. I am free on Saturday mornings and some sundays. If you need some flexiblity on this (especially easier when online work), please contact me regardless.

Hello!

My name is Matthew Hoss. I am an experienced counsellor and I work with young people and adults with their mental health.

I hope I am someone you may feel comfortable reaching out to and I hope you find the right fit for you. I truly look forward to hearing from anyone who wants to reach out for therapeutic work with me.

If you want a therapeutic experience to be nurturing, understanding, thought-provoking and for you to have an authentic human connection with someone, I feel like I am a great candidate for that. My motto is “the therapeutic relationship heals” and I believe in building a secure relationship with you.

I work with all manner of issues. Sometimes worry it is too much or not enough for therapy, yet I believe it's always to explore anything that impacts you. If it is important to you, it is important to me. Whether it be family issues, depression, low self-esteem or suicidal thoughts, I will be here with you. I believe I am good at finding the true you in a down-to-earth and wholesome way. I predominantly work in a secondary school with teenagers and adult staff members, so I am deeply experienced working with a variety of issues.

I also run Therapeutically Applied Role-playing games for groups. I have run many group sessions with teenagers using Dungeons and Dragons and other tabletop games, and this is effective in a therapeutic environment.

This takes more time to prepare and it is a more bespoke service, so please let me know if this is something you (and your party) are interested in. This can be done solo too. Please reach out for enquiries

For those who want to know the details: I work in an integrative way; mixing person-centred, psychodynamic and existential modalities. I am happy to tailor my work around your needs, typically. I have been a counselling lecturer at Teesside University and Darlington College, and I have written articles on my work with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. I have lots of experience and many happy clients, supporting them through the stress, grief and problems that life throws our way.

Currently based in Darlington. I am offering online work, telephone calls, and remote sessions. I do offer face-to-face sessions, but these are limited - but please enquire. 

I can offer some limited work here. I work limited private hours so be mindful of this when getting in contact.

In our first session, we just get straight into it. I find the first session is often the most important one for many reasons, but it takes a while for us to understand why. 

This session will be ironing out our working arrangement and starting that therapeutic journey together