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Childhood trauma can cause you mental trouble long after it occurred. It may affect your relationships, self-image, mental health, and even your physical wellbeing.

Mental Health Match connects you with top-notch therapists who can help you manage the feelings, behaviors, and triggers associated with traumatic childhood events. Whether you are located in downtown Chicago, Ashburn, Austin, Belmont Craigin, or even Bucktown, Mental Health Match can help you easily find an experienced therapist or counselor who best meets your needs.

Childhood Trauma Symptoms

Childhood trauma stems from childhood abuse, neglect, accidents, and more. It can affect adolescents, teens, and adults, causing them to experience a wide range of symptoms, some of which include:

  • Chronic sadness or depression
  • Worry
  • Anger and irritability
  • Panic attacks
  • Trouble sleeping
  • Mood swings
  • Poor concentration

If you’re experiencing any of these symptoms, therapy can help to improve the quality of your life. You can learn more about childhood trauma and how it affects you in this article from therapist Lacy Shawn.

Overcome Your Childhood Trauma with Therapy

There’s no better time to seek treatment for childhood trauma than now - therapy can help you heal and let go of the trauma. Mental Health Match can help get you started by connecting you with a licensed therapist fast. Get childhood trauma therapy and counseling online or in-person. Browse below, or use our therapist matching survey to get personalized results.

West Garfield Park of Chicago, IL Childhood Trauma Therapists - List Your Practice on Mental Health Match

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Stephanie Willis
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Together, we'll explore thoughts & feelings, cultivate self-awareness, develop healthy coping strategies, strengthen communication & relationships, promote healing & growth. Safe, non-judgmental space to empower your journey towards mental well-being


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Together, we'll explore thoughts & feelings, cultivate self-awareness, develop healthy coping strategies, strengthen communication & relationships, promote healing & growth. Safe, non-judgmental space to empower your journey towards mental well-being

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My experience in the Chicago-land area included work in Non-Profits, Hospitals, & Wilderness Programs before establishing WillisCC. I specialized with high risk adolescents addressing self-injury, gang involvement and drug use.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
  • Behavioral Disorders
  • Co-Parenting
  • Developmental Disorders
  • Financial Stress
  • Grief
  • High Anxiety
  • Loving Someone with a Mental Health Disorder
  • Parenting
  • Racial Trauma
  • Secondary Trauma
  • Women Veterans
  • Young Women
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Rebecca Davis
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We will begin to unpack the ways of functioning that no longer serve you but at one time protected you from emotional harm. We are all able to live a life with much more presence when we begin to heal our past wounds.


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We will begin to unpack the ways of functioning that no longer serve you but at one time protected you from emotional harm. We are all able to live a life with much more presence when we begin to heal our past wounds.

Something to know about my approach is:

I am a very active therapist, I have witnessed that when clients safely and slowly engage in the healing process they begin to find great relief quickly. I use specific evidence-based modalities that I have been trained in for over 10 years.

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  • Anxiety
  • Trauma
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Stephanie Haugen
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Develop coping skills that can be useful both now and in the future. We will also work to identify negative thoughts, practice new skills, problem solve, and set goals so that you can fully live in the present moment.


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Develop coping skills that can be useful both now and in the future. We will also work to identify negative thoughts, practice new skills, problem solve, and set goals so that you can fully live in the present moment.

Something to know about my approach is:

An Integrative approach uses multiple approaches to help clients. In most cases, this means a combination of psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, and humanistic therapies. The approach is flexible and based on the needs of the client.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Addictions
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Depression
  • Disordered Eating
  • Grief
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Life Transitions
  • Panic Attacks
  • Relationship Conflict
  • Self-Harm
  • Trauma
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Katherine M. Hayes
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I help women navigate different life stages and strengthen their mental health in a safe space free of judgment or pressure. I offer a holistic and interpersonal approach that will help you find adaptive coping skills.


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I help women navigate different life stages and strengthen their mental health in a safe space free of judgment or pressure. I offer a holistic and interpersonal approach that will help you find adaptive coping skills.

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I help women explore their emotions in a safe space, free of judgement or pressure. By embracing each client's own unique story and strengths, I am able to help them find adaptive coping skills that allow them to flourish.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Career
  • Depression
  • Life Transitions
  • Mood Disorders
  • Motherhood
  • Perinatal Mood/Anxiety Disorders
  • Postpartum Mood Disorders
  • Pregnancy
  • Relationships
  • Trauma
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Jelena Bulic Milenovic
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As someone who grew up in unstable socio-political circumstances and as an immigrant, I have reinvented myself many times, and I can help you do the same. I am a fierce fighter for social justice and a supporter of oppressed people.


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As someone who grew up in unstable socio-political circumstances and as an immigrant, I have reinvented myself many times, and I can help you do the same. I am a fierce fighter for social justice and a supporter of oppressed people.

Something to know about my approach is:

I am a bilingual (English/Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian) therapist. I offer culturally informed therapy and acknowledge individual, intergenerational, historical, racial, and social trauma. These traumas are often at the root of modern human issues.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Academic Issues
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Career Counseling
  • Children of Immigrants
  • Chronic Disease
  • Complex Trauma
  • Depression
  • Domestic Violence
  • End of Life
  • Immigrants
  • LGBTQ+
  • Life Transitions
  • Neurodivergence
  • Self-Acceptance
  • Women
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