Ted Matthews is a mental health practitioner with over 30 years of experience in counseling in rural areas. His focus for the past 2 decades has been providing farmer mental health support through the subsidized Minnesota Department of Ag. program. This program was created by Matthews and an FBM instructor 20 years ago when they realized how undeserved the farming community is.   Ted has been the director of mental health services during 5 natural disasters. Matthews provides outreach training and public speaking related to farm stressors nation wide. He also has extensive counseling experience in the areas of PTSD, crisis intervention, family issues, suicidology and domestic abuse.