sarah evergreen, LCsw

Sarah Evergreen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the state of Missouri.  She completed the Master of Social Work program at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis with a concentration in Mental Health.  Sarah has experience working with adolescents, young adults, and adults in areas related to depression, anxiety, trauma, relationships, life transitions, self-esteem, LGBTQ+ identity exploration, and other LGBTQ+ specific issues. 

Sarah’s therapeutic approach prioritizes helping clients learn how to feel safe and secure in their relationship with themselves. By helping clients tune into their bodies, she empowers them to access their own internal wisdom and to live lives that feel unique and meaningful to them. Sarah sees and accepts clients as they really are, here and now, and helps them learn how to do the same thing for themselves. In that space of unconditional positive regard, her down-to-earth and stabilizing presence promotes the realization of client strengths and personhood, while her emphasis on context promotes a more socially just understanding of themselves socially, culturally, economically, and politically.   

Sarah enjoys working with people that are ready to unpack and heal from their past, particularly those that have experienced trauma and/or childhood emotional neglect, people that are at a crossroads in their lives and want to figure out where to go next, and mentally drained “helpers” or “fixers” trying to figure out how to balance taking care of others with taking care of themselves. She is also committed to serving LGBTQ+ adults and adolescents and the people that serve, support, and love them.

From Sarah:

All of us are both works of art and works in progress, yet most of us don’t see ourselves as such — we can readily list what parts we’d swap or improve, but precious few of us can say enough about what we’d keep and love. Therapy encourages us to look at the whole self, which leads us to have a much more complete sense of who we really are. Our false dichotomies and mutual exclusivities break down and we discover that the stuff we don’t like and the stuff we do not only belongs, but can even produce a certain sense of harmony. The bedrock of this kind of transformation is a wholesale shift in perspective — you are not incomplete, broken, or lacking, but wonderfully unique and complex. You are enough, and you always have been.