Sara Scott, LCSW,
About Sara Scott (She/Her)
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
- Couples Therapy: Ages 18-75+
- Family Therapy: All Ages
- Individual Therapy: Ages 3-75+
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
- Autism spectrum & neurodivergence
- Autism with developmental delay
- Autism: requires some assistance
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body image
- Bullying or harassment
- 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
- End-of-life challenges
- Family conflict
- Focus, concentration & memory
- Grief & loss
- Hallucinations
- Intellectual disability (caregiver-supported care)
- Intellectual disability (living independently)
- Intense mood changes
- Mental health during perimenopause
- Mental health related to pregnancy & reproductive health
- Mid-life transitions
- Other women's health concerns
- Panic attacks
- Parenting
- PMS & PMDD
- 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
- Autism spectrum & neurodivergence
- Autism with developmental delay
- Autism: requires some assistance
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body image
- Childhood ADHD, attention or focus issues
- 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
- Focus, concentration & memory
- General relationship issues
- Grief & loss
- Hallucinations
- Intellectual disability (caregiver-supported care)
- Intellectual disability (living independently)
- Intense mood changes
- Learning challenges
- Marital stress or divorce
- Mental health during perimenopause
- Mental health related to pregnancy & reproductive health
- Mid-life transitions
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Other women's health concerns
- Patterns affecting behavior, emotions and relationships
- Personality disorders & related conditions
- Phobias
- PMS & PMDD
- 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
- Autism spectrum & neurodivergence
- Autism with developmental delay
- Autism: requires some assistance
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body image
- Bullying or harassment
- Career & work issues
- Caregiving
- Childhood ADHD, attention or focus issues
- 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
- Eating issues: binging
- Eating issues: food deprivation
- Eating issues: purging/regurgitating
- Emotional abuse
- End-of-life challenges
- Family conflict
- Focus, concentration & memory
- Grief & loss
- Hallucinations
- Intellectual disability (caregiver-supported care)
- Intellectual disability (living independently)
- Intense mood changes
- Learning challenges
- Mental health during perimenopause
- Mental health related to pregnancy & reproductive health
- Mental health support for chronic pain
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Other women's health concerns
- Parenting
- Patterns affecting behavior, emotions and relationships
- Personality disorders & related conditions
- Phobias
- PMS & PMDD
- 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
Therapy Types
- Art Therapy
- CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
- Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
- DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy)
- EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy)
- Family Systems Therapy
- Gestalt Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Integrative & Holistic Therapy
- Mindfulness-Based Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- Narrative Therapy
- Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
- Parenting Support
- Play Therapy
- Sand Tray Therapy
- Social Skills Training
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
- Strength-Based Therapy
Insurances Accepted
- Aetna
- Carelon (Beacon)
- Centivo
- Claritev (MultiPlan PHCS)
- Curative
- Custom Design Benefits
- Devoted Health Plan
- Elevance Health (Anthem BCBS)
- Evernorth (Cigna)
- HealthLink
- HealthSmart
- Humana
- MediNcrease Health Plans (MHP)
- Medicare
- Mercy
- Northwell Direct
- Optum (UnitedHealthcare)
- Partners Direct Health
- Provider Network of America (PNOA)
- Quest Behavioral Health
- Sana Benefits
- TELUS Health (BHS)
- Tricare West (TriWest)
Languages
- English
Education
- Saint Louis University
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Questions About
Sara Scott
Please call us at 636-477-8290 to schedule an appointment with Sara Scott.
Sara Scott generally accepts new patients but there could be a waitlist. Please call 636-477-8290 to find out Sara Scott's schedule and availability.
LifeStance Health providers accept most commercial insurance plans that are offered in the states where we offer services, including telehealth. Please see the following list of insurances accepted by Sara Scott:
- Aetna
- Carelon (Beacon)
- Centivo
- Claritev (MultiPlan PHCS)
- Curative
- Custom Design Benefits
- Devoted Health Plan
- Elevance Health (Anthem BCBS)
- Evernorth (Cigna)
- HealthLink
- HealthSmart
- Humana
- MediNcrease Health Plans (MHP)
- Medicare
- Mercy
- Northwell Direct
- Optum (UnitedHealthcare)
- Partners Direct Health
- Provider Network of America (PNOA)
- Quest Behavioral Health
- Sana Benefits
- TELUS Health (BHS)
- Tricare West (TriWest)
If you don't see your insurance listed, please contact us at 636-477-8290 to see how we can help.
Sara Scott is a Therapist and cannot prescribe medication. However, most LifeStance offices have a Psychiatrist or APN on staff who can prescribe medication if needed.
Sara Scott works at:
Yes, Sara Scott does offer online telehealth visits.
Yes, Sara Scott is currently offering in-office visits at the following location: