https://www.mattrileypsychotherapy.com/fees daily 0.75 2025-10-03 https://www.mattrileypsychotherapy.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f56e5d1805f6b09156d83a0/1599548768750-Z82CRYNYRLUI3CGGXBZK/APA+Div39+Logo Contact Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f56e5d1805f6b09156d83a0/1601146263895-BBTJKC7ZJ3UZLO5X47CL/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+6.12.50+PM.png Contact Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f56e5d1805f6b09156d83a0/1627770785598-NW8QUMDSWFSOGZ7S70PQ/Psychology+Today Contact Me https://www.mattrileypsychotherapy.com/what-to-expect daily 0.75 2025-07-01 https://www.mattrileypsychotherapy.com/about-my-practice daily 1.0 2025-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f56e5d1805f6b09156d83a0/1603996104085-IC35I2A815WOEUSFMZE5/Asheville+Therapist+-+Matt+Riley+Psychotherapy About My Practice I am a licensed psychotherapist specializing in helping people make sense of and work through trauma, complex trauma, anxiety/depression, and relationship difficulties. I work with people from a wide range of backgrounds and life experiences, including those who have been marginalized based on gender, race, and sexuality. My Approach I use a supportive psychoanalytic approach that integrates various traditions from within the field of psychoanalysis. I consider your own inherent wisdom as fundamental when I sit with you, and I consider the therapeutic relationship itself to be an important source of change. I generally work from the following assumptions: We naturally orient ourselves towards healing in more ways than we realize. Our emotions tell us about what is important in our lives and the things we need. We get caught in harmful cycles not because we are broken but because we are trying to master things essential to us. Insight is helpful but sometimes not enough; reparative relationships are essential. The question is not “what is wrong with me?” It is “what has happened to me?” Emotional crises give us a window into our yearnings. I believe in “both/and” thinking. When we hold two opposing truths at the same time, we often find new ways forward. Contact me if you’d like to do a free 15-minute phone consultation to see if we may be a good fit for one another. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f56e5d1805f6b09156d83a0/05749156-c25f-42fa-9890-64edb4427664/MWF_3743_Formatted_for_Web.jpg About My Practice “An individual having unusual difficulties in coping with his environment struggles and kicks up the dust, as it were. I have used the figure of a fish caught on a hook: his gyrations must look peculiar to other fish that don’t understand the circumstances; but his splashes are not his affliction, they are his effort to get rid of his affliction and as every fisherman knows these efforts may succeed.” - Karl Menninger https://www.mattrileypsychotherapy.com/inspiration daily 0.75 2025-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f56e5d1805f6b09156d83a0/c562d30b-db17-4bfe-9505-605a45a63e8f/Asheville+Counseling+Therapy+-+Matt+Riley+Psychotherapy mattrayriley@gmail.com - On psychotherapy as profound change rather than only symptom reduction - a talk by Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP The Montessori Method - I have come to believe that in-depth psychotherapy seeks to do for the adult what Montessori seeks to do for the child (and uses a similar method to get there). Black Psychoanalysts Speak - Trailer to a documentary Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu, translated and read by Stephen Mitchell . https://www.mattrileypsychotherapy.com/referral daily 0.75 2022-10-05 https://www.mattrileypsychotherapy.com/supervision daily 0.75 2026-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f56e5d1805f6b09156d83a0/1652996374512-49O2OJMV7VJ65WZOE30S/Screen%252BShot%252B2022-05-19%252Bat%252B5.26.34%252BPM.jpg Supervision https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f56e5d1805f6b09156d83a0/1652996430725-GTAGRLA0RULOI610RM4X/Screen%2BShot%2B2022-05-19%2Bat%2B5.25.07%2BPM.jpg Supervision https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f56e5d1805f6b09156d83a0/6b0c2307-76d6-4d40-97bf-545bfc585a57/Screen+Shot+2022-05-19+at+5.28.53+PM.png Supervision https://www.mattrileypsychotherapy.com/payment daily 0.75 2025-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f56e5d1805f6b09156d83a0/d2cb75df-4ef2-4e5a-91df-d99ce119f37c/Screen+Shot+2025-10-03+at+1.56.02+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f56e5d1805f6b09156d83a0/b69d4eba-e5b9-4330-9cdf-c342f0506f8e/IMG_9508.jpeg