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 16-minute audio introduces …

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 …

Sigmund’s Psychoanalytic Couch Sigmund Freud got two things right: almost all adult psychological problems are rooted in childhood and he allowed his clients to avoid making eye to eye contact during the therapy session by placing himself behind the client. When you require the client to maintain the western social norm …

In 2017, psychotherapist and EMDR trainer Philip Manfield developed a new trauma procedure that he calls, “The Flash Technique” (FT). This technique is easy to learn and doesn’t require consciously reliving traumatic memories, unlike EMDR or Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy. The Flash Technique enables trauma processing without triggering distress. This …

“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius Have you given personal advice by starting your sentence with, “If I were you?” “If I were you”, I would have your emotions, the same body, and the same personal history. In other …

This is a 6-minute video on why you voted as you did in the 2024 election: “Sorting for Self” vs. “Sorting for Others” has offered me valuable insights into how individuals process information, make decisions, or and relate to the world around them. After reading this post, you will become …

For over forty years I have worked with hundreds of people to eliminate their fear of flying. More than likely if you are reading this post, you can not imagine being relaxed in a seat on an airliner. You are not alone and you are putting yourself under unnecessary stress. …

  Over the course of my 80-year lifetime, I’ve recovered two deeply repressed traumatic memories. The first emerged from an event when I was just four years old: https://clintmatheny.com/my-childhood-repressed-trauma-how-clean-language-therapy-helped-me/ This story describes how the second repressed traumatic memory was triggered and resurfaced three decades after the event. I was an …

This is a 5-minute video overview of the negative placebo effect:   Doctors, in their unique role, possess the ability to cast spells—not with wands, but with words. Their dialogue, delivered in the clinical sanctity of examination rooms, wields immense power. Patients, in their most vulnerable state, hang on every …

This is a 4-minute video introduction to the power of your mind to heal your mindbody:   For over 40-years I have been facilitating what some would call as, “ miracles”. I have always taken exception to that word, because it infers that these healings are unusual or magical. Most …

Hypnosis has been used in a few hospitals for over sixty years to help patients heal burns. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8712163/ This is 4-minute video introduction : Doctors still give sugar pills (placebos) to their patients. What is new is we know how to make the structure of a placebo (belief). In 1992, …

“In a healing journey, pain and emotions are like transient whispers of the heart; once mended, they often fade into the silent archives of our being.” Clint Matheny Since launching my “Fear of Flying” practice in 1985, primarily using what was then called the NLP Trauma/Phobia Cure, now recognized as …

Three and a half decades ago, a client approached me with a question: could she retrieve memories of her mother from before she was four years old? She had lost her mother to pneumonia at that tender age and retained no conscious recollection of her, save for the funeral. She …

I am going to teach you a few techniques to interrupt a panic attack. First you should get a diagnosis that you were actually experiencing an emotional panic attack. First see your primary care provider to determine if you are having panic attacks, panic disorder or another condition, such as …

This recording should only be played only in a safe place where you can use your complete focus of attention. After listening to the recording the first time you can use progressive relaxation from memory to go to sleep, or just relax, and I’m sure you will find other uses. Make sure …

Over 13 % of women in the United States will get breast cancer in their lifetimes. In May 2021, my wife Laurie, found she had a cancerous tumor in her left breast. While radiation therapy does play a crucial role in treating breast cancer, it can cause incidental damage to …

“People like people like themselves or people they would like to be like.” Author unknown  This is a 5- minute video on rapport: In 1985, I attended a twenty day communications and therapy workshop in Houston . The course was spread over ten weekends and on the first day we …

Whitney Houston’s song, “The Greatest Love of All” was a big hit during the 1980s. The song basically said that to love yourself was the greatest love of all. Unfortunately Whitney was never able to feel this love for herself and died from an overdose of drugs trying to escape …

Catherine Pearson of The NY Times, asked nearly a dozen experts in sex and intimacy for the advice they repeat again and again. For starters, they said, don’t get so hung up on how often you have, or want, sex. More: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/well/sex-therapy-questions.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb  

This is a 9-minute “Deep Dive Podcast”: Have you ever asked yourself that question? Most people have not and the answer to that question has a great impact upon relationships. My wife, Laurie, introduced me to a best selling book called “The 5 Languages of Love” by Gary Chapman. This …

Tom Stone started using this very effective therapy modality that he calls,  “ The In Technique ” over twenty years ago on painful emotions (PTSD, grief, anxiety, etc). I have used it for over ten years. Tom and I both believe that when we were infants we learned to avoid …

This is a 5-minute video overview:   This procedure when used can desensitized almost any emotional feeling. EMDR was discovered by Francine Shapiro over thirty years ago. Read all of the post before continuing with the procedure! I believe EMDR can  be self administered on mild traumatic events and problems. …

I started using the Eye Movement Integration procedure (EMI) around 1991. It is a brief therapy technique that is effective in treating acute and post-traumatic stress, also phobias, the symptoms associated with addictions and negative or self-limiting thoughts. EMI is a neuro-therapeutic method for accessing and integrating traumatic memories and …

By using the Dynamic Spin technique, you can free yourself from negative thinking or self-criticism. You can also reduce or eliminate any physical discomfort, self-doubt, or emotional barrier that prevents you from achieving your goals in a short time. Sounds unbelievable? Test it ! This is a 5- minute Google …

Transforming Your Inner Dialogue – Practice Compassion Towards Yourself And Be Your Own Best Friend: This is a 5-minute video on how to be your best friend: Many of us experience a constant stream of inner dialogue, while others may have very little. Let me guide you on how to …

Perceptual positions are the ways we perceive ourselves and others in any situation. There are three main perceptual positions: self, other, and observer. Each position has its own advantages and disadvantages, but they can also be misaligned or distorted, leading to confusion, conflict, or dissatisfaction. This is a 14-minute “Deep …

Who are we really? WARNING: There is a story about sexual abuse in this post This 6 – minute video explores the concept of the “Second Perceptual Position” or “The Other Perceptual Position “:   Are people at any given moment in time doing their best? Maybe they are ! …

This is a 5-minute video over view:   First I have to explain the two (2) most important perceptual positions in which we experience the world. 1st Position: being in our body, seeing what we see now/or what we saw then through our own eyes, hearing what we hear through …

Do you have a strong sense of self? If so, you’re less likely to join a cult. Read on to learn more. This is a 5-minute video overview of your identity parts (You, I, Me, Myself , your Name, your Nickname, your Spirit).   My language patterns in this post …

  This is a 5-minute video on a very powerful technique that is easy to learn:   If you have a bad memory that has become a habitual distraction in your thinking this (2) two minute audio will make a difference. The difference will be you will be able to …

This is a 6 minute Video on “The Free Will Illusion & What Would Jesus Do?”:   Many of us like to believe we’re entirely in control of our actions—rational agents, freely choosing right from wrong. But what if much of what we do is governed by unseen forces—our biology, …

Was it a large or small pink elephant with white spots? Despite my instruction not to think of it, you likely visualized it anyway. That’s because our brains struggle with processing negations. This is a 9 minute audio “Deep Dive”. Listen with new ears: When it comes to technology—our smartphones, …

That three letter word is “try”. I mean using it “to attempt to do something”. The word “try” is a very powerful word to many people’s unconscious minds. The word “try” means fail. That is where the saying comes from: “try and try again until you succeed”. Listen to the …

This is an 11-minute Podcast on the Yellow Brick Road:   And here’s why – “The Wizard of Oz” has probably been seen by almost every adult over forty years old in the western world. It was produced in 1939, has shown on TV since the 1980’s, and everyone remembers …

This is a 17 – minute “Deep Dive” into the inner world of a man paralyzed from the neck down – a man who chooses internal peace over physical recovery:   In 1979, my next‑door neighbor in Houston, Texas was in a car accident that changed everything. I’m writing about …

I am now 80 years old. I sent this email in 2020, to my teenage grandkids: This is a 6-minute video overview of my email:   “The most important part is in the next-to-last paragraph. I started thinking about the jobs I’ve had from age 5 to 75. I’d never …

Ever feel like you’re doing all the right things—therapy, journaling, self-help—but still stuck in emotional loops you can’t name?—read on or watch this 6-minute video:   You’re running on an emotional autopilot you can’t see, the one that’s been steering your life since childhood. Until you uncover it, you’ll keep …

Let’s start with a simple exercise and then work up on the postings: Think of some situation at work or in life that is making you unsatisfied and you want it to change (relationships, physical health, mental health, finances). Ask yourself the following questions: 1.      What is wrong? 2.      Why am I having …