Our therapists offer PTSD & trauma therapy in Aurora, IL

As a Licensed Social Worker with a background in intensive healthcare, I bring a deeply compassionate, real-world approach to healing minds and supporting emotional well-being. I specialize in anxiety and depression, helping individuals navigate the heavy seasons of life with evidence-based, trauma-informed care.

I provide structured cognitive-behavioral therapy and personalized coping tools to support you in managing anxiety, overcoming depression, and facing life-altering challenges with renewed confidence and resilience.

Whether you’re seeking to find internal peace or develop practical strategies to thrive, you don’t have to walk this path alone. Let’s work together to build a fulfilling and resilient future.

Erin is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who has 8 years of clinical experience with mental health and substance abuse treatment. She is better able to understand how prevalent the relationship is between substance abuse, trauma history, and marginalization. Erin's foundation in education deepens her perspective and understanding of how a client, just as a student, is a human first. With a humanistic perspective, Erin compassionately listens to her client's story. Her experience helps facilitate skill building to encourage confidence to make personal change toward improved symptom management and recovery.

Erin has a Master's in Education and a Professional Educator's License. Erin has worked in a variety of treatment levels, including inpatient, outpatient, schools, and residential environments, has given Erin a broader perspective on how integrative collaboration works within a complex mental health treatment model. I have worked with clients/patients who have a variety of diagnoses, presenting symptoms and problems. Implementing differentiated therapeutic modalities across diverse levels of functioning in individual and group settings has made their counseling interventions more effective and sensitive to different populations, experiences, and identities.

Erin is passionate about working with underprivileged populations. Erin finds meaning as a therapist who serves those who have experienced chronic trauma and substance abuse as well as providing support and encouragement to children who have faced adverse experiences. Erin's experience can offer clients effective and therapeutic mental health and substance abuse treatment. Please consider investing in your health and happiness today.

**Children under the age of 12 years old must be seen for in-person sessions.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 9 years of experience. I have worked with people across all ages and diagnoses, including those in crises. My experience includes supporting adolescents, adults, geriatrics, first responders, and veterans. I specialize in treating depression, anxiety, PTSD, borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, and addiction.

I earned my Master’s in Social Work from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. My therapeutic style is collaborative and compassionate, centering on each person’s unique needs. I draw on approaches such as motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral therapy, family systems, solution-focused brief therapy, and exposure therapy.

Taking the first step toward therapy can feel challenging, but you don’t have to do it alone. I’m here to support, validate, and empower you while helping you feel understood. Wherever you are in your journey, I’ll walk alongside you with compassion and care as we work toward lasting healing and positive change.

Brittany Lafin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with over 13 years of experience utilizing the pillars of wellness to help clients improve daily functioning and reaching long term goals. She specializes in treating depression, anxiety, life changes, marital issues, substance issues, trauma, ADHD, bipolar disorders (I and II), relationship issues, and more.

Brittany earned her Bachelor's degree in Clinical Psychology from Saint Xavier University-Chicago. She continued her academic journey by pursuing Advance Associates degree in Addiction Studies at Moraine Valley-Palos Park. Brittany's educational accomplishments culminated with a Master's degree in Social Work from Governors State University-University Park.

She will help you gain your power back in the form of healthy control, building boundaries not walls, using combination of therapy modalities and respected referrals to help you find you. If this is where you would like to begin, please schedule with Brittany.

Hi, I'm Simone, a licensed clinical social worker passionate about helping individuals navigate life's challenges. I strive to create a supportive space where clients can show up fully as themselves without judgment. I work with children, adolescents, adults, and older adults, and I meet each client where they are while honoring their unique identities, strengths, and cultural and lived experiences. Many of the clients I work with are seeking to heal from past traumas, improve family dynamics, build healthier relationships, manage stress and anxiety, and reconnect with their sense of purpose while rebuilding their self-confidence. 

My goal is to help clients feel empowered to grow, heal, and create lasting change. I believe therapy is a collaborative process that doesn't require you to become someone different—it begins with feeling heard and respected as you reconnect. My work incorporates CBT, DBT, solution-focused brief therapy, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. 

I believe that no matter where you are in your journey, you do not have to navigate it alone. Taking care of yourself is the most courageous act you can take. If you are ready to take the next step and begin your healing, I invite you to schedule an appointment. Together, we can work toward creating the best and healthiest version of yourself.