Description
Weathered Men is an outdoor men’s group for adult men who are stressed, burned out, disconnected, grieving, angry, numb, or tired of carrying everything alone.
This is not a traditional therapy group. We meet outside through hiking, fishing, paddling, fire, breathwork, and direct conversation. The work is practical, grounded, and built for men who process better shoulder-to-shoulder than face-to-face.
You do not need prior therapy experience. You do not need to be an outdoorsman. You just need to be willing to show up, be respectful, and get honest.
Led by Matt Thadeio, LMHC-A, founder of Cognitive Alchemy RI, Weathered Men combines trauma-informed therapy, EMDR, somatic work, nervous system regulation, and adventure-based intervention.
No couches. No forced sharing. No bullshit. Just men, nature, and real work.
Group Therapist
TL;DR: I’m not here to politely watch your life burn down like it’s a movie review. I’m here to help you put the fire out.
You’re here because insight isn’t fixing it. You can explain your patterns like you’re narrating a documentary…and your nervous system still hits the panic button, slams the brakes, or flips the table in real life.
Let me guess: you’ve tried therapy before and it felt like paying someone to nod thoughtfully while you talk in circles. “And how does that make you feel?”
Yeah...it feels fucking awful. Next question.
I work with trauma and chronic stress, especially in high-functioning people who keep it together until they can’t: anxiety, shutdown, rage spikes, dissociation, perfectionism, burnout. The folks who look fine on the outside but actually feel like their inner world is a daycare with no staff: screaming toddlers, big emotions everywhere, nobody napping, everything is sticky.
My approach is direct, structured, and nervous-system focused. We stabilize first (because going “deep” without capacity is like ripping the smoke alarm out instead of putting out the fire), then use EMDR and somatic work to change the pattern, not just describe it. The goal is traction: skills that actually work when life shows up uninvited.
Formats include in-person + telehealth, 90-minute sessions, walking/nature sessions, intensives, and select community/community-based work when clinically appropriate...because the moment you need skills is rarely while sitting in a comfy office chair.
Read on for additional information.
