Matt Inman,
LPC

I’m not old but I am definitely not a young therapist anymore.
I am in mid-life.
Which means I am leaving self-seriousness for playfulness and intellectualism for deep-hearted, embodied living. This turn has undoubtedly impacted my therapeutic work.
I don’t want to just locate what is “healthy” for you or me, I also want to enjoy the fruits and expressions of our vitality- this for me is what mental and emotional health bring to our lives and the lives of our loved ones.
After 14 years in Austin, I’ve moved to Sacramento, CA where I reside with my wife, kids and scraggly haired pup.
Things I love: Goofing off with my family, cool mornings and hot coffee, the Pacific Ocean, the cliffside of Big Sur, gardening and riding my bike on trails along the American River.

My Therapeutic Approach

I believe psychotherapy is not just about learning but about relating well- to ourselves, others, our communities and to the natural world in which we belong. It is a courageous endeavor to look at yourself with radical openness, to hold the complexity of your family of origin experience and to confront the pain and beauty of the cultural intersection in which you find yourself.

Since seeing my first client in 2006 as a counseling student, I have seen over and over how this courageous endeavor gets us out of boredom and exhaustion and into an enlivened spirit. It is the process that heals inter-generational wounds that weigh us down. And it is the movement that asks us and others to show up differently within our personal and communal lives.

I have studied therapy in undergraduate and graduate school as well as a certificate program in Relational Psychodynamic Therapy (RPT) from the Contemporary Psychodynamic Institute. RPT starts with the belief that the relationship formed in therapy is as healing as any relational content that could be taught. It is within this relational process that we build new dynamics that work better and break old, decades long dynamics that have far outlived their usefulness to us.

We go back into your individual and cultural stories so we can feel them and move forward in them with greater agency, creativity and love. That is my hope for me and that is my hope for you.