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Welcome to the official website of Reverend Matthew Hogan a seasoned counselor, pastor, and author with over 30 years of experience in ministry and pastoral counseling. As a Certified Temperament Pastoral Counselor and Licensed Clinical Pastoral Counselor, he is dedicated to providing compassionate, faith-based therapy for individuals, couples, and families from all backgrounds. Through Grace for Individual and Family Therapy (GIFT), Reverend Hogan offers personalized counseling to help you navigate life’s challenges with faith, wisdom, and renewed strength.
Welcome to Rev. Matthew Hogan’s Counseling Page. I would like to help you find the peace that God has for you. I offer counseling services for the individual or any group.
I had the good fortune of becoming a Christian fairly early in life. By the time I got to college I found myself being mentored and raised up by some very intelligent and Godly men. I found myself in ministry leadership positions from around the age of 20. Since that time, God has led me through a journey of both life experiences and ministry opportunities that have been absolutely amazing. I worked in a boy’s home for very troubled kids, then my wife and I served as missionaries for a drug and alcohol rehab farm. I had already started preaching as a fill-in, but those opportunities grew. I continued to be mentored by some incredible men who instilled in me the drive to always represent God in truth and with integrity. Alongside that journey, I had a secular career in industrial maintenance, engineering, and troubleshooting. By learning to always know what I was talking about so that I was never thought a fool, I learned how to study people and systems. And more importantly, I was reminded to only speak if I knew I was right. This translated into a deep desire to always be able to represent God by the Bible, and not by any church dogma. Combined with ministering in various ways in a wide variety of Christian denominations, this gave me the drive to know the word of God as well as I knew how to make machines run. In 2014, I started the journey of Pastoral Counselor. Now, a tendency that my wife and I had long seen was only magnified. Not only our couselees, but many others came to us for answers they weren’t getting in their churches for one reason or another. As time went by, we began to see some recurring themes in these people whether they were counselees or parishioners, especially after I became a pastor then interim pastor.
These themes prompted us to write my first book, How to be a Christian in Today’s World. I thought I knew who the book was intended for and I was right, but the audience has been so much broader and so much bigger. Like one of my literary inspirations, I long for people to truly understand what a RELATIONSHIP with God can be. After well over 3 decades of ministry experience, often not as a person’s pastor, but someone they sought out, I was becoming equipped to answer their questions. But my wife and I saw that fear and doubt were big obstacles for Christians and those considering Christianity. We HAD to try to put out what we had learned in a format that would reach many people, and that became How to be a Christian in Today’s World. After that, I realized that so many people saw us as an inspiration or encouragement. We slowly figured out that they were looking at how we lived DESPITE our struggles. We hated that, because we didn’t want to be examples. We wanted God to move and bring healing, etc. So, my second book, Blessed Brokenness, came out of my journey of not liking how I thought God was ignoring the prayers and needs of my wife and myself. I often still disagree with God on how He should do His job. Fortunately, He seems to have a pretty good tolerance for that. But, I finally came to an understanding of why God might use us the way He has despite ourselves.
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