Sarah Matas, LCSW

Sarah Matas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 20 years of experience. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, grief, depression, caregiver strain, and other life changes. Sarah writes plainly and listens carefully to what matters most to each person who comes to her.

She draws on a humanistic, client-centered style that starts with the present moment and builds on strengths. Sarah helps people notice how thoughts affect feelings and behavior, and she uses that awareness to shift unhelpful patterns. She also brings techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused work to help people try new approaches and solve immediate problems.

Much of her background is in hospice, medical home care, and long-term care. That experience shaped her work with grief, end-of-life concerns, caregiver burnout, and the special stresses that come with aging and chronic health issues. She has also supported people facing divorce, blended family questions, isolation, midlife transitions, and mood or anxiety symptoms.

Sarah emphasizes clear, gentle guidance and practical tools. Sessions are collaborative and geared toward each person’s goals, whether that means coping skills, problem-solving steps, or ways to reframe distressing thoughts. Her perspective as a mother and grandmother informs her understanding of everyday pressures and relationship strains.

If you want straightforward, respectful support for life transitions or caregiving stress, Sarah focuses on helping people move toward the better place they imagine.

How Sarah’s approaches translate to online care

Sarah uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people understand what they want to change now. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building on a person’s strengths to clarify goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and provides simple exercises to test and change unhelpful thinking patterns.

Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences and try approaches that fit those needs. Together the client and therapist decide which tools and strategies feel most useful and make adjustments over time.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, scheduling brief check-ins during a lunch break or avoiding travel time to appointments. It also allows consistent contact for people dealing with caregiving responsibilities or mobility limits. The focus is on practical strategies you can use between sessions, regardless of how sessions are arranged.