About Sara
Sara Scott is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who blends practical therapies with a warm, straightforward approach. She draws on decades of experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or grief concerns. Her style aims to be down-to-earth and goal-focused so conversations stay useful and clear.
She uses methods like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on concrete skills, small experiments, and the next step a person can take between meetings. Over a long career in Missouri she has worked in nonprofits, hospitals, prisons, and schools. That mix of settings shaped a practical perspective on coping with life changes, addiction, chronic health challenges, and family-of-origin problems.
She also has experience supporting people with intimacy, self-esteem, and parenting concerns. Sara earned a Bachelor of Social Work in 1998 and a Master of Social Work in 2001, and she practices with a Missouri LCSW credential. She brings steady, experienced guidance while tailoring the approach to each person’s needs.
People who choose this style should expect clear explanations, collaborative planning, and tools to try between sessions. The work is focused on real-life problems and gradual, manageable change. For someone feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to begin, she offers a calm, practical path forward drawn from many years of direct clinical work.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed actions toward them. It helps people who feel stuck by teaching how to notice thoughts without being driven by them and then choose actions that matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks situations into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches practical techniques to test unhelpful beliefs and try new responses for anxiety, depression, and mood difficulties.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and everyday routines to choose or combine methods that fit. Goals and techniques are reviewed together so adjustments can be made when something isnt working.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues and a fuller conversation help progress. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, and reminders between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while adapting to a person's schedule and comfort level.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English