ABOUT ME

Rachael Arnold, MSW, LCSW

I am a clinically licensed master’s level social worker providing mental health services in St. Louis. I received my MSW from the University of Missouri - St. Louis in 2015 and have been practicing clinical social work ever since. 

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I have spent a great deal of my career working with adolescents and their families as they cope and manage symptoms of depression, anxiety, family transitions, identity, and more. 

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However, after the birth of my oldest child, I realized mental health support for families is very limited, especially after the first 6 weeks a child is born. And even though medically speaking the postpartum period only lasts 6 weeks, I personally believe mothers and families can struggle at any point within the first year (or sometimes longer.) 

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The more research I did about this population, the more I felt pulled towards my passion: supporting mothers and families as they prepare to become parents, and through their journeys of pregnancy, birth, and beyond.

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While my experience still lies in work with adolescents, I'm expanding my training to include maternal mental health as well. In this role, I work with clients who wish to process becoming a parent, are struggling with infertility, are looking to adopt and/or have a baby through surrogate, have suffered perinatal loss and/or grief, want to work through a traumatic experience before giving birth (including previous traumatic births and sexual assault,) are struggling with postpartum depression and/or anxiety, and/or who need guidance and support as they transition back to work after parental leave.