Who is Matt?
Matt is the Director of MGA Counselling Services and provides individual, couple, family, and group counselling. He is also the founder of Forest Therapy Victoria. Matt has a special interest in relationship counselling, grief, trauma, abuse recovery, high sensitivity, and spirituality. Matt provides professional and personal development courses on a range of topics and speaks regularly at conferences and in the media on sexuality and mental health.
Aside from his counselling work, Matt also freelances as a cartoonist and illustrator. He is the author and illustrator of the Shapes, Lines and Dots: Creativity and Wellbeing for Kids series of books, plus regularly does commissions for corporate and community clients.
Episode Summary
Matt shares what the deconstruction journey looks like for an ex-Pastor; and how his inner sense of spirituality remained.
Matt explains the disillusionment around his calling originally as being a Pastor and how it shifted into caring for people.
We explore the grief that occurs when you lose 90% of your community and are met with silence.
We call out the cliché around ‘time healing all wounds’.
Matt shares how he felt that he had a taste of what the Queer community faces.
Matt shares about the role of therapy and how he came to the realisation of the possibility of becoming a counsellor.
We discuss how his training, equipped him to seeing the role of helper in a different and more whole capacity.
I ask Matt how other people’s view of who he was impacted his view of self and what a humbling experience it was.
Matt shares about the pain around the harm that was caused while he was the Pastor of the church.
I ask Matt about the role of nature in his healing and his deconstruction; how it had always remained.
Matt talks about the unexpected role that art and drawing played in his healing and redefining who he was in the world.
Finally, Matt answers the questions “What do you want to say to the church?” and “Where do you see the church going in the next 10 years”
Links
For more information on Matt’s creative ventures head to - http://mattglover.com
To connect with Matt about his practice head to https://mgacounselling.com.au/
To connect over on Instagram - @matt.r.glover
To connect with Sam on Instagram - @anchoredcounsellingservices
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