Meet Sarah Ligon, LCSW, Clinical Director for Glen Ellyn

Hello there, I’m Sarah (she/her), and I am so glad you are here.

While starting therapy can feel daunting, I genuinely believe it can be an enriching and worthwhile process. I hope to support you and help deepen your understanding of your individual experiences and how they have shaped you into the person you are today. We will draw from those experiences to gain new insights and learn effective strategies to navigate life's challenges!

It’s OK if you feel “awkward” about the first call or appointment. Once you listen to my own awkward voicemail recording, you will feel instant relief. We will put in a lot of hard work together during sessions, but we will hopefully also laugh and have some fun.

My approach to counseling is straightforward, genuine, and encouraging. I work to see your strengths, empower you, and foster growth towards reaching your goals, whatever they may be. I take an integrative approach combining person-centered, CBT, body work, and psychodynamic modalities. I love to support clients with anxiety, depression, life transitions, self-harm, and trauma, as well as gender-based violence such as sexual assault, rape, and domestic violence.

I also specialize in perinatal mental health, including postpartum depression and anxiety, adjustment to motherhood/parenthood, intrusive thoughts, infertility, miscarriage, and infant loss. You don’t have to do it alone. I’m here to help you navigate the pain, calm the anxiety, honor your baby, quiet the fear, and rediscover yourself in a way that feels right for you.

Before starting work in the private practice setting, I spent many years as a social worker in a variety of non-profit community mental health agencies supporting individuals with mental health struggles. At the core of my desire to become a social worker is a deep sense of compassion and empathy for others. My life experiences, along with witnessing individual, community, and systemic inequality and injustice, guided me towards a desire to help make tangible differences in the lives of others.

Outside of work, I am a mom of two kids and two dogs. In the warmer months, you’ll find me attempting to grow my vegetable garden, and in the colder months curled up with a book. I’d love all the gardening and book recommendations!