Miriam Matthews, LICSW, LCSW

Miriam Matthews is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience. She focuses on practical, goal-oriented work that helps people reduce anxiety, manage depression, and heal from sexual trauma. Miriam uses cognitive behavioral tools while listening closely to each person's needs.

She centers sessions on the person's experience and goals. That means talking through current problems, testing small changes, and building clearer patterns of thought and behavior. Miriam also draws on solution-focused methods to set short-term steps that feel doable.

Her background includes behavioral health, work with the March of Dimes supporting women's and infant health, child protective services, hospice care, and geriatric psychosocial support. Those roles shaped her skills in advocating for people facing emotional, social, and economic challenges. The work taught her to connect clients with practical resources as part of care.

In the therapy room she blends cognitive behavioral strategies with a client-centered stance. Sessions tend to be collaborative and straightforward: identify a problem, try an approach, review what worked, and adjust the plan. She emphasizes skills people can use between sessions.

Miriam pays attention to how life events and relationships affect mood and stress. She helps people navigate grief, family conflict, feelings of emptiness or shame, caregiver strain, and issues tied to identity and discrimination. Her goal is to help people find clearer thinking and more manageable ways to move forward.

How Miriam’s Approaches Work Online

Miriam commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and client-centered techniques during online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Client-centered methods prioritize the person’s experience, offering a listening stance that guides the pace and goals of work.

She also uses solution-focused methods to create short-term, achievable steps when problems feel overwhelming. Together these approaches help people set clear goals, try new strategies between sessions, and track progress over time. Choosing the right mix of methods is part of the process and will be decided collaboratively based on needs and preferences.

Online sessions can take place via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into busy days. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Chat and text options suit short exchanges, brief skill practice, or people who prefer writing to speaking. These formats offer flexibility and let clients keep consistent momentum toward their goals.