The path back to
yourself.
The antidote to anxiety no one's talking about — where instinct, voice, and aliveness have been waiting.
Prefer email? matt@6sides.org
The way out of anxiety isn't more thinking about it. It's reaching the layer of you that thinking can't touch.
From the field guide
Fifteen years a therapist. Time away. Now back.
I'm a therapist who left the field for several years — not bravely, not strategically. My body and mind just wouldn't let me keep doing it. The kind of burnout rest doesn't fix. What I came to see later was that I'd spent fifteen years helping people while consistently overriding myself.
What finally moved my own patterns wasn't more insight. It was reaching the layer underneath thinking — the instinctual layer that knows what it wants before logic shows up. That layer, and how to work with it, is what Wellspring is built on.
Read the full story →Underneath anxiety, your instinct.
Anxiety isn't only a thinking problem. Sometimes it's a body that doesn't trust you to protect yourself.
Most therapy works the upper floors, thoughts, behaviors, the stories we tell. Real, useful work, at one layer of you.
The patterns that don't move from thinking are living somewhere else. They live in instinctual drive, the layer that knows what it wants before logic shows up. When that part has been held down for years, anxiety is the predictable result.
The work is direct.
Begin with a free readout →
If any of these sound like you.
You shape-shift to keep the room comfortable.
You overthink decisions you already know the answer to.
The hard conversation never quite happens.
These patterns aren't personality flaws — they're what happens when the instinctual layer has been held down for years, usually by shame. It can come back online. Grace is most of the work.
Get your free Instinctual Drive Readout →A clear four-step process.
From a free twelve-minute readout to a six-to-eight-week designed program. Not open-ended therapy, structured, paced, and built around what your assessment reveals.
The Free Readout
Take the 54-question Six Sides of You assessment. Get your personalized readout, where instinct, voice, and aliveness are strong, and where they've gone quiet.
Prefer to talk first? Book a free 15-min call.
The Intake
A full session to walk through your readout, hear your story, and design the program together.
The Program
Six to eight weeks designed around what your assessment surfaced. Weekly sessions plus a few short, optional materials between, used only as much as is useful. Nothing assigned to grind through.
The Reassessment
At the end of the program, retake the Six Sides of You to see what's shifted, and decide together what comes next: maintenance sessions, a deeper round, or a clean finish.
One step at a time. Structured, but never rushed.
More than a session, a system.
Wellspring clients work with a full set of resources between appointments, measurement, short readings, and a quiet reflection tool. All built on the Wilder Method, a framework Matt helped develop for reaching the instinctual self.
Standard 50-minute sessions are $150, private pay. Intake sessions (75 minutes) are $200. Superbills available for out-of-network reimbursement.
For everyone
Free- i.The Instinctual Drive ReadoutTwelve to fifteen minutes. Take it anytime. Six dimensions, scored, with your two lowest highlighted.
For clients
Included with therapy- i.The Six Sides of You AssessmentThe full 54-question version. Updated through the program to show what's shifting.
- ii.Selected workbooks & field guidesCurated to your specific patterns. Drawn from the Wilder Method library.
- iii.Sage, a private reflection toolA Wilder-Method-trained prompt companion for journaling between sessions. Optional. Never a replacement for the work we do together.
- iv.A designed program, not open-ended sessionsSix to eight weeks, structured around what your assessment surfaced.
wellspring (n.) the first place water comes up; quiet, clear, already there.
Areas of specialty.
The ground floor is still there.
Two ways in: a 15-minute call to talk it through, or a 12-15 minute online assessment you can take right now. Both free. Let's just see if there's something here.
Prefer email? matt@6sides.org