Sarah Matas, LCSW

Sarah Matas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Pennsylvania with twenty years of experience supporting individuals and families through major life transitions. She earned her 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 settings, often visiting clients in their homes to address chronic health concerns, caregiving strain, grief, anxiety, depression, and burnout.

As a clinician, she emphasizes the present moment and builds on each person’s existing strengths. Her approach is humanistic and client-centered - she views clients as the experts on their own lives and focuses on practical, achievable growth that aligns with each person’s goals. Sarah believes that durable change happens when people develop new tools, shift how they see themselves, and reframe the thoughts that get in the way of well-being. She pays careful attention to patterns of thinking that can demotivate or distort experience, and works collaboratively to uncover and change those patterns.

Sarah describes social work as an identity as well as a profession. Her life roles, including experiences as a mother - with a period as a single parent - a grandmother, a colleague, a supervisor, and a caregiver, inform her empathy and practical perspective. Her LCSW credential indicates specialized training to provide clinical social work and psychotherapy services, and she brings that background to help clients move toward the better place they envision for themselves.