Effective treatment for individuals, couples & families

Dr. Matt Heatherly is a clinical therapist serving the Tuscaloosa, Alabama area.  He brings his own unique combination of professional training, personal skills, and life experience to his therapy practice.

Matt is a graduate of the University of Alabama.  Matt served for ten years as a pastor in churches where, among other responsibilities, his duties included worship-leading and working with teens.  In 2004, Matt completed his graduate work in psychotherapy at Purdue University and Indiana Wesleyan University. 

Matt has twenty years experience as a therapist.  During that time he has worked with hundreds of individuals, couples, and families on all sorts of issues that affect their lives. He has worked with inner-city familes in crisis, doing contract work for the Department of Human Resources and The Office of Juvenile Probation.  He has also worked in in-patient settings conducting programs in partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient. Since 2013, he has worked full-time in private practice.

Personal experience deeply informs any therapist's work.  Matt has personally known the pressures of college life, high-stress work settings, financial pressures, relocation, relationship and family struggles, career change, death of loved ones, and many of the other stressors that make modern life hard.  

Matt brings a practical, solution-focused approach to this work, along with compassion, imagination and a dedication to professional excellence.

As a life-long learner, Matt continually masters new skills through ongoing training and consultation.