About Sarah
Sarah Mathis is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) based in South Carolina. She focuses on anxiety, stress, addiction, depression, trauma, and related concerns. Her manner is warm and direct, aimed at helping people find clear steps forward during hard times.
Sarah uses practical talk and steady support to help people handle panic, persistent worry, and low mood. She leans on approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to teach tools that can be used between sessions.
Background and approach
She also draws on client-centered and psychodynamic ideas to understand patterns that keep problems repeating. Her background includes work with teens and adults as well as early experience in schools addressing attention and behavior challenges.
That early work shaped how she helps parents think through routines and communication, even when she prefers to work with parents rather than young children in online sessions. Sessions emphasize clear goals, small experiments, and building skills for daily life. Sarah often uses motivational interviewing when someone is weighing change around substance use or other habits.
She focuses on practical steps people can try right away. People come to her for help with relationships, grief, parenting stress, identity and intimacy questions, and mood shifts that interrupt daily life. She aims to make therapy understandable and manageable, so progress feels steady instead of overwhelming.
How Sarah’s approaches work online
Sarah often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT breaks big problems into small steps so someone can test what helps and what does not, which is useful for panic, worry, and mood shifts.She also uses mindfulness therapy to teach attention skills that reduce reactivity. Mindfulness practices can help with anxiety and stress by training awareness of body sensations, breath, and moment-to-moment thoughts. Client-centered therapy is another part of her work, which means she listens closely and follows the person’s priorities rather than imposing a plan.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and pace. Plans are adjusted as someone learns what feels helpful and what does not.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video lets people use visual cues and longer sessions, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can work for short check-ins or step-by-step coaching. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, or other daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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