Need help Navigating Challenging Emotional Terrain?

Sometimes life presents challenging emotional terrain. Like navigating rugged wilderness, finding your way is easier with an expert guide by your side. At Field Guide Counseling, we provide specialized therapy for men across Tennessee, rooted right here in Johnson City. We're dedicated to helping men address and overcome their mental health and emotional challenges.

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Is working with Matt for you?

Healthy relationships seem impossible…

Your anxiety, depression, or ADHD make it unbearably difficult to complete simple tasks during the day…

You lose control of your anger, driving others away, ultimately leaving you shameful and alone…

You have harmful behaviors and habits that you cant stop no matter how hard you try…

You tried therapy before but felt there was not a clear direction for healing, you were just there to talk or maybe there was not a clear understanding of men’s mental health…

If you said yes to any of these, then you are likely a good fit… just click the button below to get started.

A photo of Matt Dean, the Johnson City Tennessee therapist behind Field Guide Counseling, specializing in Men's Issues Counseling. Matt is a smiling man with a beard and mustache, wearing a gray shirt, outdoors on steps.

Welcome! I am genuinely glad you are here.

I’m Matt and I am the therapist behind Field Guide Counseling. I’m a life long Tennesseean, father, husband, fly fisherman, gardener, and I think most would say a “normal dude”. I am also a male therapist in Johnson City, Tennessee and I work exclusively with men around their mental and emotional health. I have extended experience working with ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Relationship issues and especially how they present uniquely for men.

I started Field Guide Counseling because I found healing, fulfillment and peace were possible through therapy. My therapists gave me tools for daily life and assisted in the healing of wounds underneath my issues and I am extremely passionate about sharing that gift with other men.

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What to expect from therapy

Step 1: Schedule a free therapy phone consultation so we can talk and you can get a feel for if I am the right therapist for you.

Step 2: If you are located in Johnson City, you will choose either in-person sessions with a male therapist near you (Matt) or virtual therapy sessions are available for men across the state of Tennessee.

Step 3: Attend regular sessions where together we will identify goals for therapy, employ essential tools and skills for daily life, and explore the roots of your unique issues.

Step 4: Achieve healing and growth through commitment and hard work. Ultimately therapy will end and you will carry these skills forward in a more fulfilling and peaceful life.

What others have to say about working with Matt

  • Andrea Santa Maria

    Matt is such a warm and authentic therapist, he creates such a safe atmosphere for his clients to tell their stories

    Andrea Santa Maria - Owner of Delilah Counseling, Counselor, MA, LPC, MHSP, C-DBT

  • Darrell Jones

    Matt guides men through counseling issues with the skill of a surgeon. His desire to see men in Nashville recover their hearts so their lives and homes can be restored is a chief principle of his practice. He sets an approachable environment for his clients to feel seen, heard, and safe. A session with Matt is a refuge from the world, an opportunity to retreat, regroup, and reclaim all those places of our hearts that have been taken.

    Darrell Jones, Associate Pastor, Midtown Fellowship 12 South

  • Brett Rutledge

    Where empathy meets authenticity. Matt is truly genuine with a dash of humor. He will guide you through life's challenges with honesty and compassion. Get ready for straightforward conversations that lead to real breakthroughs.

    Brett Rutledge - MMFT, Experienced ministry and worship leader

  • Ryan Chappelle

    1. Matt knows his stuff. He has taught me a lot about ADHD and working with men. 2. He is just a cool dude. Trout fishing enthusiast, bagel connoisseur- if I wasn't his friend, I would definitely want him as my therapist.

    Ryan Chappelle - TLMFT, Founder of Crying with Ryan

  • Jammie Haigh

    Matt is such a safe presence, and someone I have come to respect and value highly. He will meet you with knowledge and empathy in a very disarming way. Matt can navigate everything from addiction to ADHD with ease, all the while cracking jokes that w

    Jamie Haigh - Counselor, Musician, Co-Founder Three Percent Co.

  • Close-up Steve Jackson smiling, wearing a light blue collared shirt, in front of a foliage background. Steve has provided a recommendation of working with Matt at Field Guide Counseling.

    Matt cares deeply about his client’s healing and understands what is needed to create an environment that is conducive for that healing to occur for them.

    Steve Jackson - Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, TBRI Educator