About Sophia
Sophia Mas is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with more than 30 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and phobias. She works with individuals facing relationship and family concerns, grief, trauma, addictions, and challenges with self-esteem. She offers empathy and practical guidance in straightforward language.
In sessions she listens closely and helps people name what matters most to them. Sophia uses a mix of therapy styles and tools to match a person’s needs.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on skills people can try between appointments and small changes that add up over time. Her background includes work in emergency care, community mental health, and independent practice across many settings. Those experiences shaped a flexible approach to different life problems and crises.
She emphasizes respect and nonjudgmental support for every person who comes to therapy. Sophia often combines cognitive-behavioral exercises with acceptance-based ideas and attention to attachment issues. She also draws on client-centered and dialectical skills when they fit the situation.
The goal is to help people feel more in control and more able to cope with life’s ups and downs. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Sophia helps people build tools for handling anger, sleep and eating problems, parenting stress, work struggles, and changes like separation or loss.
Her style is practical, warm, and straightforward.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being overwhelmed by them, then commit to actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying different behaviors to change feelings and daily functioning; it is often useful for anxiety, depression, and phobias. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships affect current patterns, and it helps people build healthier ways of relating and feeling supported.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together you’ll try strategies and adjust the plan as you learn what fits best for your situation.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match your life. Video suits longer weekly sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to use video. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, quick coping tools, or between-session support. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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