Sarah Matas, LCSW

Sarah Matas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), a mental health professional with advanced training in social work, with more than 20 years of experience supporting individuals and families through life transitions. She earned her master’s degree from Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and has spent much of her career in hospice, medical home care, and long-term care, often meeting people where they live to help them navigate chronic health concerns, stress and anxiety, depression, grief and loss, and caregiver burnout.

Her work is grounded in the present moment and anchored in a strengths-based, humanistic perspective. Sarah approaches therapy with the belief that people are doing the best they can with the tools available to them, and that meaningful change becomes possible as new tools and new ways of understanding oneself are developed. She emphasizes a collaborative process in which the client is respected as the expert on their own life, while she brings steady support, genuine care, and encouragement toward growth and change aligned with the client’s own vision.

Sarah also pays close attention to the role of thoughts in shaping motivation, mood, and day-to-day experience. She helps clients identify patterns of distorted or unhelpful thinking that can intensify sadness, loneliness, or stress, and supports them in building more workable ways to interpret what is happening around them. Her perspective is also informed by lived roles including being a mother, a single parent for a period of time, a grandmother, a colleague, a boss, and a caregiver.