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Therapist in Saint Peters, Missouri Sara Scott, Therapist

Gender Identity: Female (She/Her)

Ages Served: 0-75+

Appointments: Telehealth only. In-office visits not available

Manages Medications: No, provides therapy only

Accepts Insurance: Yes - View accepted plans

Sara Scott, Therapist

Sara Scott, LCSW

Specializes In:

Anxiety
General relationship issues
Marital stress or divorce
Panic attacks
Premarital counseling
Stress management
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Sara Scott helps children, adolescents, teens, adults, and seniors across Missouri build resilience, improve relationships, and achieve greater emotional well-being through compassionate, evidence-based care at LifeStance Health. She provides individual, couples, and family therapy for those navigating anxiety, depression, and trauma, creating a supportive and authentic space where clients can safely explore challenges and work toward meaningful change.

Sara specializes in anxiety, depression, and PTSD/trauma, using a collaborative and personalized approach to care. She integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and mindfulness techniques to help clients better understand their thoughts and emotions, strengthen coping skills, and improve overall functioning. She also supports a wide range of additional concerns, including ADHD, substance use, life transitions, and relationship challenges, ensuring treatment is tailored to each individual and family.

Sara has extensive experience working with diverse populations, including individuals in adoption and foster care, those on the autism spectrum, and individuals with developmental disabilities. Through family therapy, she partners closely with caregivers to enhance communication, support healthy development, and create lasting, positive change within the family system.

With over a decade of clinical experience and a background spanning hospitals, schools, nonprofits, and community settings, Sara brings a well-rounded and empathetic perspective to her work. She is dedicated to helping clients feel empowered, understood, and capable of reaching their full potential.

Outside of her professional work, Sara enjoys reading, traveling, thrifting, and entertaining, reflecting her vibrant and engaging approach to life.

Types of Care & Ages Served

Areas of Focus

Couples Therapy

Helps partners address relationship conflict and improve communication with a clinician's guidance.

  • General relationship issues
  • Marital stress or divorce
  • Premarital counseling
  • ADHD
  • Adoption & foster care
  • Aging
  • Alcohol use
  • Anger issues
  • Anxiety
  • Attention & focus
  • Autism: generally independent
  • Autism: requires some assistance
  • Autism: requires substantial support
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Body image
  • Bullying or harassment
  • Career & relationships (mid-life)
  • Career & work issues
  • Caregiving
  • Depression/feeling down
  • Detachment/disconnection
  • Dissociative disorders
  • Drug/substance use
  • Early adulthood: Independent living or relationships
  • Early adulthood: Starting college or career
  • Empty nesters
  • End-of-life challenges
  • Family conflict
  • Fertility
  • Focus, concentration & memory
  • Grief & loss
  • Hallucinations
  • Intellectual challenges: generally independent
  • Intellectual challenges: requires some assistance
  • Intellectual challenges: requires substantial support
  • Intense mood changes
  • Menopause & perimenopause
  • Other women's health concerns
  • Panic attacks
  • Parenthood
  • Parenting
  • PMS & PMDD
  • Post-partum depression & anxiety
  • Pre-conception
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy loss
  • Psychosis/issues with reality
  • Retirement
  • Schizophrenia/schizoaffective
  • Self-esteem
  • Sex & intimacy issues
  • Sexual trauma
  • Social skills & communication
  • Stress management
  • Trauma & PTSD
  • Unhealthy eating habits
  • Unusual thoughts or beliefs

Family Therapy

Improve communication and resolve conflicts within family dynamics with a clinician's guidance.

  • Anxiety
  • Panic attacks
  • Stress management
  • ADHD
  • Adoption & foster care
  • Aging
  • Alcohol use
  • Anger issues
  • Attachment issues
  • Attention & focus
  • Autism: generally independent
  • Autism: requires some assistance
  • Autism: requires substantial support
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Body image
  • Career & relationships (mid-life)
  • Childhood behavioral issues
  • Depression/feeling down
  • Detachment/disconnection
  • Dissociative disorders
  • Domestic violence & abuse
  • Drug/substance use
  • Early adulthood: Independent living or relationships
  • Early adulthood: Starting college or career
  • Emotional abuse
  • Empty nesters
  • Fertility
  • Focus, concentration & memory
  • General relationship issues
  • Grief & loss
  • Hallucinations
  • Intellectual challenges: generally independent
  • Intellectual challenges: requires some assistance
  • Intellectual challenges: requires substantial support
  • Intense mood changes
  • Learning challenges
  • Marital stress or divorce
  • Menopause & perimenopause
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Other women's health concerns
  • Parenthood
  • Patterns affecting behavior, emotions and relationships
  • Personality disorders
  • Phobias
  • PMS & PMDD
  • Post-partum depression & anxiety
  • Pre-conception
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy loss
  • Premarital counseling
  • Psychosis/issues with reality
  • Retirement
  • Schizophrenia/schizoaffective
  • School avoidance
  • School behavioral issues
  • Self-esteem
  • Self-injury or cutting
  • Sexual trauma
  • Social skills & communication
  • Trauma & PTSD
  • Unhealthy eating habits
  • Unusual thoughts or beliefs

Individual Therapy

Get help addressing challenges and improve well-being with a clinician's guidance.

  • Anxiety
  • Panic attacks
  • Stress management
  • ADHD
  • Aging
  • Alcohol use
  • Anger issues
  • Attachment issues
  • Attention & focus
  • Autism: generally independent
  • Autism: requires some assistance
  • Autism: requires substantial support
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Body image
  • Bullying or harassment
  • Career & work issues
  • Caregiving
  • Childhood behavioral issues
  • Chronic pain-related issues
  • Depression/feeling down
  • Detachment/disconnection
  • Dissociative disorders
  • Domestic violence & abuse
  • Drug/substance use
  • Early adulthood: Independent living or relationships
  • Early adulthood: Starting college or career
  • Eating issues: binging
  • Eating issues: food deprivation
  • Eating issues: purging/regurgitating
  • Emotional abuse
  • End-of-life challenges
  • Family conflict
  • Fertility
  • Focus, concentration & memory
  • Grief & loss
  • Hallucinations
  • Intellectual challenges: generally independent
  • Intellectual challenges: requires some assistance
  • Intellectual challenges: requires substantial support
  • Intense mood changes
  • Learning challenges
  • Menopause & perimenopause
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Other women's health concerns
  • Parenting
  • Patterns affecting behavior, emotions and relationships
  • Personality disorders
  • Phobias
  • PMS & PMDD
  • Post-partum depression & anxiety
  • Pre-conception
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy loss
  • Psychosis/issues with reality
  • Retirement
  • Schizophrenia/schizoaffective
  • School avoidance
  • School behavioral issues
  • Self-esteem
  • Self-injury or cutting
  • Sex & intimacy issues
  • Sexual trauma
  • Social skills & communication
  • Trauma & PTSD
  • Unhealthy eating habits
  • Unusual thoughts or beliefs

Languages

  • English

Education

  • Saint Louis University

FAQs

Please call us at 636-477-8290 to schedule an appointment with Sara Scott.

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