Miriam Matthews
Healing through practical, compassionate therapy
LICSW, LCSW Virginia
- Experience
- 10 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Relationship, Trauma and abuse, Self esteem
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Miriam
Miriam Matthews is a LICSW and LCSW who blends cognitive and empathetic methods to help clients move through anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship challenges. She centers care on the client’s goals and perspectives, using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside client-centered and solution-focused strategies to address both thoughts and emotions.
Background and approach
With a background spanning behavioral health, hospice, child protective services, geriatric care, and maternal-child health work, she brings a practical, resource-oriented approach to therapeutic work. Her practice emphasizes motivational interviewing and integrative support, helping people confront grief, intimacy-related concerns, caregiver stress, and the long-term effects of sexual assault and abuse.
Miriam also works with issues such as isolation, guilt and shame, communication difficulties, life transitions, and questions about life purpose and self-love. Over a decade of clinical experience informs her efforts to connect clients with tools, coping strategies, and community resources that fit their circumstances and values.
Approaches for Online Healing and Practical Change
Client-centered therapy emphasizes respectful, nonjudgmental listening and supports clients in exploring their values and goals; it helps people who need space to be heard and to build self-directed insight. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to anxiety, depression, or stress, offering concrete exercises and skill-building to improve daily functioning. Solution-focused therapy concentrates on small, achievable steps and immediate goals, which is useful for clients seeking targeted change and practical coping strategies.Determining the right combination of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each client to understand their needs, preferences, and goals and will adapt methods over time so sessions remain useful and relevant. Clients are encouraged to give feedback so treatment can be tuned to what helps most.
Online therapy with Miriam is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which can make scheduling more flexible and reduce travel time. These options allow people to access licensed professionals from their own environment, fit sessions into busy days, and use different formats for check-ins, skill practice, or deeper conversations depending on what feels most comfortable.
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Experience
10+ years
Licensed
Virginia, Massachusetts
Languages
English