Matt is a psychotherapist, professional wellness consultant, and a formerly practicing attorney. Matt is also the founder of Sidebar Counseling LLC out of Wausau, Wisconsin where he focuses his practice on all matters relating to mental health, wellness, and performance in work and careers. Through Sidebar, he leverages his past experience practicing law for over ten years along with evidence-based approaches to fostering wellness and high-level functioning to provide counseling and consulting services to individuals in high pressure roles, teams, and broader organizations. Before pivoting to mental health, Matt operated a solo intellectual property practice, was in-house counsel supporting the R&D function at Mars Wrigley Confectionery, and practiced patent prosecution and IP litigation at Foley & Lardner. He obtained his J.D. from Washington University in Saint Louis School of Law and a Master’s in Counseling from Northwestern University.