About Sophia
Sophia Mas is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship challenges. She speaks English and Spanish and works with adults on issues like self-esteem, addictions, trauma, parenting strains, and career concerns. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people find workable steps forward.
She blends several therapy methods to match each person's needs. Sophia draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to notice unhelpful thinking patterns and uses acceptance-based methods to help people live with difficult feelings without being ruled by them.
Background and approach
She also values attachment ideas when relationship patterns and closeness are central to the problem. Sophia pairs active listening with straightforward coaching. Sessions focus on small, manageable changes - new ways to cope, communicate, and set limits.
She uses hands-on tools and conversation to help people practice skills between sessions. Her background includes work in emergency mental health, community mental health, and independent practice. That range means she is familiar with acute stress reactions, mood disorders, and long-term coping challenges.
Sophia aims to treat each person with respect and to build a collaborative plan that fits their life. People often come for help with panic, ongoing worry, relationship conflict, or life transitions. Sophia emphasizes hope and practical strategies so people can rebuild functioning and move toward goals they set for themselves.
Therapeutic approaches for online care and practical change
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them control actions, and it supports building a values-based life even during anxiety or loss. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches clear skills to change unhelpful patterns that feed worry or low mood. Attachment-Based ideas focus on patterns of relating and help people understand how early and current relationships shape reactions and expectations in close connections.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they choose or blend approaches so sessions match the client's needs and move toward practical outcomes.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video isn't needed, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, manage limited bandwidth, or have a quick coaching touchpoint when problems come up. Licensed professionals can adapt tools and exercises to each format so clients keep making progress regardless of how they connect.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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