Maria Conforti , LCSW

Maria Conforti is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Illinois with 16 years of experience across a wide range of clinical and community settings. She has worked in private practice, group homes, incarceration settings, community resource programs, nonprofits, and on high profile cases, bringing practical skills and a broad perspective to complex situations.

Her work has addressed many areas including pediatric ADHD, couples therapy for sexually oriented couples, divorce mediation with a focus on child well being and co-parenting agreements, integration programming for at-risk young men, and group counseling for young women experiencing self-esteem and interpersonal challenges. She also supports clients facing relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, coaching needs, and issues related to attachment and abandonment.

Clinically, she trained intensively in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) while contracted through DCFS to work in a group home for high-risk children, and she incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) along with other interventions to create individualized treatment plans. She will use psychoanalytic concepts when appropriate to explore how childhood experiences influence current patterns, while maintaining a practical focus on solutions such as making peace, offering forgiveness where needed, and moving forward.

Her style blends compassion with candid feedback and an expectation of collaboration - she aims to teach skills so clients can live a therapeutic life rather than remain in therapy. The ideal client for her practice is ready for change, open minded, and willing to engage actively in the work. She offers services in English and Italian.