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Monica Buttafava M.S., LMHC, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy
English, Spanish, Italian
Monica Buttafava M.S., LMHC
COVID-19 Update: All Services available in-person and through video communications.
English, Spanish, Italian
Monica Buttafava M.S., LMHC
"Monica Buttafava is a highly skilled child and adolescent psychotherapist. Mrs. Buttafava works closely with parents of her child and adolescent patients which both support the child and adolescent's treatment and enriches the psychotherapeutic process."
-Edward P. Kaufman, MSW, LCSW, BCD
Director Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute
Monica Buttafava is a licensed mental health counselor and has been working in the field of mental health since 1996. She has particular expertise in working with children, adolescents, and their families and is experienced in parenting support and child development.
Monica can provide in-depth therapeutic work as well as clinical and developmental consultations.
Before starting her private practice, she was trained in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center in Italy and subsequently worked as a developmental psychology professor at a private university in Costa Rica. Monica then worked several years as a psychotherapist for a non-profit agency in the Chicago suburbs serving children and their families. She also collaborated with the Barr-Harris Children's Grief Center of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, dedicated to helping children who have lost a parent or significant loved one through death, divorce, or abandonment.
After earning a master's degree in Clinical Psychology in Italy, Monica pursued a four-year, post-master's Advanced Training Program in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.
If your child or teen is experiencing social, emotional and/or behavioral difficulties, let me help you regain harmony and balance in their life and also your family life. With compassion and understanding, I work with parents and youth to understand their needs, help them build on their strengths and support their personal growth.
✔Toddlers, children, teens, & young adults
✔Parenting support/guidance
For toddlers, children, teens, young adults and their families who are struggling with life’s various difficulties, traumas, and adversities. If you are struggling to communicate and understand your child/teen, there is a way to address and support their emotional and behavioral needs and to develop a stronger connection with them. Monica Buttafava provides therapy using age-appropriate, creative and expressive methods to give every individual an outlet to process feelings, fears, hopes, and dreams.
✔For emotional distress
✔For behavioral issues
✔For social difficulties
Stressors such as trauma, divorce, conflict, and abuse can make children and teens confused about their feelings and uncertain about their future. The psychotherapy provided by Monica Buttafava helps children, teens, and their parents in a variety of ways. They receive emotional support, resolve conflicts with people, understand feelings and difficulties, and try new solutions to old problems. As a result, they have greater self-understanding and feel more securely adjusted at home, at school, and with their peers.
✔Emotional & psychological Well-being
✔Improve relationships
✔Regain harmony & balance
Therapy addresses children and adolescents' complex emotional lives, deals with the underlying causes of problems, and assists children and adolescents in creating a capable psychological basis for ongoing development. The foundation of therapy is the relationship with the therapist. The goal is to create a situation in which young people can express themselves fully to increase self-understanding and promote new and lasting changes in emotional states and behavior
When you are facing challenges in your life, it is crucial to have someone to provide support and guidance. Psychotherapy provides a safe environment where children, teens and their families can receive support and guidance, begin to make changes in their lives, uncover strengths, and learn new ways to resolve problems.
Through effective psychotherapy approaches, I can help you and your family feel happier, more connected, and in control of life.
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