Maria Conforti, LCSW

Maria Conforti is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Illinois with 16 years of experience across a wide range of settings. She has worked in private practice, group homes, incarceration settings, community resource programs, non profit organizations, and on high profile cases, bringing a broad perspective to clinical work. Maria has supported children and families, specialized in pediatric ADHD, provided couples therapy including work with sexually oriented couples, and assisted in divorce mediation with a focus on child well being and co-parenting agreements.

She has led integration programming for at-risk young men and facilitated group counseling for young women navigating self-esteem and interpersonal challenges. Maria received intensive training in dialectical behavior therapy while serving as a DCFS contracted provider in a group home for high-risk children. Her clinical style is eclectic, drawing on cognitive behavioral therapy and, when appropriate, psychoanalytic ideas to explore how childhood experiences shape adult relationships and patterns.

Known for a compassionate yet direct approach, Maria emphasizes collaboration and clear goals. She aims to help clients identify the root of their struggles, make peace with the past, and move toward self satisfaction. Her priorities include teaching practical skills and tools so clients can lead a therapeutic life rather than a life in therapy. Maria provides services in English and Italian and works with a range of concerns including relationships, trauma and abuse, grief, coaching, and ADHD, along with related focus areas such as attachment issues, communication problems, codependency, and caregiver stress.