Matt Inman
LPC-S

I enjoy the different perspectives we have in life- how culture shapes and shifts us over time. I have been shaped by living in Kansas City, Los Angeles, Dallas and Austin. I appreciate the nuance, the longing and the unspoken love and pain that lives in each story.
And so when I see someone as a client, I am curious what is going on under the surface and what people, places and systems have shaped them. So much of my vitality comes from helping people locate their convictions and choicefulness in the stuck places of life. Much of my work sits at the intersection of nature, art and relationships.
In my free time, I love getting hot pot with my wife and kids, hanging out in my garden, hiking Big Sur, and watching Austin FC matches.

My Therapeutic Approach

I believe psychotherapy is not just about learning but about relating well- to ourselves, others, our communities and cultures. 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.

But I deeply believe that this courageous endeavor is what 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 cultures and communities.

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 shelf life.

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.