Clint Matheny

“Magic and miracles are simply the unexplained – until understanding turns them into knowledge without taking away their wonder.”  Welcome to ClintMatheny.com: A Therapist’s Toolbox for Real Emotional Change Most therapy is coping, not healing – here’s the difference. In November 2024, I began adding short Google LM Notebook “Deep …

This is a 15 – minute “Deep Dive” audio on a really deep subject:   One of the many avocations I’ve had over my 80 years was serving as the assistant funeral home director at Kilpatrick’s Funeral Homes in West Monroe, Louisiana, in 1966. Amidst the heavy silence of grieving …

  On May 30, 1972, at Greater Southwest Airport, I watch a devastating aircraft crash of a DC-9. This is a 13-minute “Deep Dive” audio that is worth your time:   The day before, I had spent more than three hours flying with the three pilots involved – an experience …

My Story This is a 6 – minute video overview of  my story: It was 1996, just past 5:15 a.m., and I was driving to work at the FAA Terminal Radar Approach Control Facility (TRACON) at Houston Intercontinental Airport. Air traffic control was my full- time job and psychotherapy was …

    Is seeing (really) believing? This is a 5 – minute overview video on how a girl healed her lazy eye and recovered her vision in her eye. There are also videos below of the actual session and 13- year follow-up.   As therapists, we hold the extraordinary capacity …

There are two (2) videos on this post : A 6-minute overview video and the actual interview with Jay. This is a four-year follow up interview I recorded in 1999. We revisited Jay’s remarkable recovery journey after he had suffered from a severe car accident on August 1, 1995. First …

Coping Isn’t the Goal. Healing Is. If your therapy sessions focus only on “talk therapy” (CBT), you’re limiting the potential for deep, lasting transformation. All effective therapy modalities incorporate memory reconsolidation into their processes. The best therapeutic approaches don’t just manage behaviors or regulate emotions—they dissolve the emotional charge linked …

Most people think healing old emotional pain has to be complicated. All of the posts on my blog are uncomplicated. They are all based on a fairly new biological science called “memory reconsolidation”. This is a 6-minute video overview:   Our brain has a built-in mechanism for permanently rewriting the …

This is a 4-minute video:   This is the most commented post on my blog. Many people tell me that they start their mornings using “ Box Breathing”, do it a few times during the day, and do it at night just before going to sleep. This has been proven …

This 6-minute video will provide background on RTM (trademarked) and why RTM should be one of the number one VA “Evidence Based” therapy for PTSD Flashbacks and Intrusive memories:   In the realm of mental health interventions, there exists a remarkable procedure that has consistently demonstrated its efficacy: the Reconsolidation …

When people hear “evidence‑based therapy,” they assume it means: “This is the treatment proven to work best.” But more often, it means: “This is the treatment someone could afford to study.” This is a 15 – minute “Deep Dive” audio: This is a 6  – minute video overview on this …

“If you’re still breathing, the story isn’t over – and you don’t owe your suffering a sequel.” This is a 5-minute overview video:   This is a 15 – minute “Deep Dive”:     A trauma is not an experience. It is an emotional response to an experience. A trauma …

In their quest to alleviate suffering, medical doctors may have dulled the very instrument of healing: feeling itself. This is a 5-minute video overview:   For the past five decades, antidepressants SSRIs benzodiazepines, or stimulants like Adderal have been prescribed as frontline treatments for depression, anxiety, and trauma-related disorders to …

Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring has over a decade of experience as a board-certified psychiatrist and has previously served as a medical officer for the FDA. His expertise lies in a niche area of psychiatry, focusing on the side effects of psychiatric medications and strategies for their safe tapering. This is a …

WARNING: This Is About Sexual Abuse  Many therapists carry invisible histories—wounds that shaped not only their empathy but their calling. I’m no exception. My journey into healing began long before I ever sat across from a client. This 8-minute Google overview video shares my journey of uncovering and healing a …

This 6-minute video tells the story of a woman who resolved 30 years of clinical depression in a single session – without medication, without electric shock treatment, or without years of talk therapy. The method? Clean Language, a therapeutic approach rooted in memory reconsolidation. In addition, below are two (2) …

This is my second posting with follow ups on healing “Depression” with “Clean Language”. This is 5-minute “Video Summary” on a 2006 session that cured my client’s depression : The 16-year follow-up interview is below. The first posting was using Clean Language on Metaphors to heal depression (see the link …

This is a 6-minute video summary of this very easy to learn powerful technique called “FreeSpotting: The 13th century poet Rumi wrote, “the cure for pain is in the pain”. Amidst the myriad of complex therapies and interventions, a revolutionary technique stands out for its simplicity and profound impact: FreeSpotting. …

This “Reconsolidation” method session on depression took place in 1985. There are two other post on this blog dealing with depression using a different method: https://clintmatheny.com/healing-major-depression/ &  healing-depression-disassociation-using-clean-language-16-year-follow-up/ This is a 7-minute video overview of this story:   A 28 year old man I will call “Bill” came to see …

Caution!: Only listen to the audios below in a safe place Shame isn’t who you are – it’s a past-based emotional learning that keeps your nervous system stuck in one moment in time. In this 10-minute self-directed process, using memory reconsolidation, you’ll go to the day before the shame event …

This is an 5- minute video :   As a therapist, our choices about treatment methods are often shaped not only by training and research, but by something deeper: lived experience and ethical grounding. I want to share two key reasons why I personally do not use Prolonged Exposure Therapy …

Have you ever wondered how the “DSM” (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) to be? This is a must watch or listen to for mental health workers! This is a 5-minute intro video on a very important subject:     James Davies, PhD has been vocal about his concerns …

This 6-minute video shares how my Uncle Red found healing from 53 years of PTSD during a walk we took together in 1998:   Before the term Memory Reconsolidation became a term, I unknowingly interrupted my uncle’s PTSD pattern that change both his and aunt’s life. My uncle, then 83 …

This 4-minute video outlines a process I have used for over 35 – years with clients to track and reflect on their progress in therapy.   Amazingly, I have never had a client come to me on their first visit with all positive emotions. Most people seek therapy to change …

Why Doing Non-Content Psychotherapy is Healthy for the Therapist This is a 6- minute video overview on how to avoid burnout in the psychotherapy profession :   Psychotherapy, at its core, is about guiding clients through their emotional and psychological landscapes. Traditionally, therapists delve into the content of their clients’ …

This is a 6-minute video overview of this event:   Recently, I was contemplating my 40 + years as a therapist, pondering the true impact of my work. Reflecting on the past, I recalled numerous clients who considered suicide, whom I’ve supported through their darkest times. Did my other client …

Ever feel stuck in a behavior you wish you could change? What if the key to change wasn’t willpower, but a shift in identity. This post walks you through the amazing “Swish Pattern,” a fast way to retrain your brain and update who you believe yourself to be. Bonus Support …

Almost every emotional problem is driven by an unconscious childhood command – Do, Be, or Get — that shapes your perception, reactions, identity, and behaviors until it is brought into awareness and rewritten. That’s the Imperative Self. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it. This 13- minute audio …

Introduction: The Hidden Driver of Your Life- The Needle in the Haystack that makes the difference of the difference: This is a 6- minute video overview:   This a “Deep Dive” 19-minute “Deep Dive” audio:   Most of us believe our personality – that familiar set of traits we call …

“The cure for pain is in the pain.” Rumi This brief 6-minute video shares my perspective on the myth of addiction—and offers a path toward healing that challenges conventional thinking:   When I was 23-years old, I asked my 48-year old father that hadn’t had a drink of alcohol for …

This is a 6 minute summary video:   Matthew Perry, a famous actor who starred in the TV sitcom “Friends”, had a history of drug and alcohol abuse. He spent over nine (9) million dollars and half of his life in and out of treatment or sober-living centers, had 14 …

This article discusses a highly successful method for treating PTSD, in existence since 1980. This is a 7- minute video:   It has only recently received funding for research to assess its efficacy and potentially recognize it as an “Evidence-Based Practice.” Over the past 44 years, this technique has been …

What Came First: The Chicken or the Egg of Depression? A Chemical Imbalance or Trauma? This is a 6-minute “Deep Dive Video”:   The “chicken or the egg” dilemma is a classic question that highlights the cyclical nature of cause and effect. Applied to mental health, the question becomes: is …

I have been using “Clean Language” interventions that were developed by David Grove and co-developer Cei Davies Linn for over thirty- one years. Unfortunately, this very eloquent modality has not received the attention it deserves in the therapy community. This might be helpful:  what-is-clean-language-therapy/ In 1994, Nancy was my first …

My Journey with Clean Language Therapy This is a 7-minute  video overview:   In 1993, I had the privilege of learning “Clean Language” from David Grove, a therapist from New Zealand. This innovative approach, known as “Clean Language Therapy,” quickly proved itself to be a powerful method for helping clients …

“Clean Language” is a distinctive approach in therapy that empowers the client by placing their own words and metaphors at the heart of the conversation. The power of Clean Language lies in its client-centered methodology. Therapists practicing Clean Language have to be meticulously attentive to the client’s language, using it as …

Check out the 5-minute video which explores the emotional state of “Peace” from my writings below:   In 1988, I attended  a five-day advanced Ericksonian hypnosis workshop in New Orleans. One morning we were asked to get into groups of three and to use both hands on the body of the …

“Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me you built a time machine?” “Back to the Future.” It is built on a simple but powerful principle: Go to before the trauma – establish resources – and then observe the trauma from the future perspective, not from inside the original event. …

There are  three (3) recordings on this post . First is a 5-minute overview, the actual session, and then a 2-year follow up:   To better understand this client session with a three year old, see the Part 1  post on this subject. Both clients had their younger selves “frozen …

After In 2010, a 40-year-old woman from New Zealand—one of my “Imperative Self Analysis” clients—cleared her brain fog in a single 30-minute online session. With her permission, I recorded the session and have included it in this post. There are two (2) audio recordings on this post. Both are 7-minutes …

This is a 5-minute video summary of curing a women’s panic attacks that were misdiagnosed as asthma attacks:   This intervention shows the power of “Clean Language Therapy” by healing a middle-aged woman’s panic attacks in a single 25-minute recorded therapy session. https://clintmatheny.com/what-is-clean-language-therapy/ Stress may trigger asthma or exacerbate the …

Most therapists have worked with adult clients that were amnesic to certain parts of their past that were caused by childhood traumas. Have you ever worked with a person that was totally amnesic to their identity? This condition is also called, “Retrograde, Dissociative Amnesia or Psychogenic Amnesia”. This is a …

“The Havening Technique” was developed in 2013, by the two Ruben brothers, Ronald and Steven . This technique is great for relaxing and for healing painful emotions (to include PTSD). This is a 4-minute video overview of this technique :   This 18 minute YouTube video by Tam Johnston gives …