About Sarah
Sarah Matas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She focuses on practical support and steady, person-centered care. She writes and talks plainly to make therapy easier to understand and access.
Sarah’s background includes long work in hospice, medical home care, and long-term care. She visited people in their homes to help manage chronic health issues, caregiver stress, depression, and bereavement.
Background and approach
That hands-on work shaped her approach to everyday problems and losses. In sessions she starts with the here and now and builds on strengths people already have. She uses clear conversation to help uncover unhelpful thoughts and to try new ways of coping.
Her work emphasizes small, realistic changes that add up over time. Sarah values each person’s knowledge about their own life. She listens, asks straightforward questions, and helps people discover tools they can use between sessions.
She also draws on practical methods that help change thinking and behavior when needed. Outside of clinical roles she has been a mother, a single parent for a time, a grandmother, a supervisor, and a caregiver. Those life roles inform her understanding of family stress, caregiver fatigue, aging concerns, and the complicated feelings that come with major transitions.
Approach and options for online therapy
Sarah uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, listening space where the person is treated as the expert on their life. That approach helps when someone needs acceptance, steady support, and help building on what already works for them.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and acting. CBT can be helpful for anxiety, panic, low mood, and compulsive behaviors by giving practical skills to change reactions and routines.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Sarah discusses goals, preferences, and what feels useful, and together they decide whether to focus on coping skills, thought work, or short-term problem solving. The plan can shift as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when connections need less bandwidth or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging can fit brief check-ins, quick coaching, or ongoing support between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and varying schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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