Sarah Matas, LCSW

Sarah Matas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with more than 20 years of experience supporting individuals and families through life transitions. She holds a Master’s degree from Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and has spent much of her career working in hospice, medical home care, and long-term care, visiting people in their homes to address chronic health concerns, stress and anxiety, depression, grief and loss, and caregiver burnout.

Her practice emphasizes the present moment and builds on each person’s existing strengths. She adopts a humanistic, client-centered stance that recognizes the individual as the expert in their own life. Sarah believes that meaningful, lasting change happens when people develop new tools, shift perspectives, and reinterpret challenging situations. She also pays close attention to the role of thoughts in motivating or undermining behavior, helping clients uncover and reframe distorted thinking patterns that contribute to sadness or isolation.

Being a social worker is central to who she is. Sarah draws on life roles including mother, single parent, grandmother, colleague, supervisor, and caregiver to inform her compassionate, practical approach. Her aim is to understand, to offer genuine concern, and to empower people to move toward the better place they envision for themselves.