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Monica Buttafava specializes in psychotherapy for children, adolescents, and young adults. Monica uses age-appropriate, creative and expressive methods to give every individual an opportunity to process anxieties, fears, hopes, and doubts. Psychotherapy helps individuals overcome physical and emotional pain, define their goals, improve relationships, and promote their outlook on life. Psychotherapy can be beneficial for those experiencing the following: anxiety, trauma, grief, social skill issues, mood issues, and more. For a broader list of Monica’s treatment specialties, please visit: www.monicabuttafavapsychotherapy.com/treatment-specialties

Understanding how you view the world can carry immense benefits. I can help you learn how what happened to you may have negatively affected you, and how to understand how that has colored your viewpoint until now. By examining your own history, you can change your life in a positive way going forward. It's almost impossible to see yourself- let me hold up a mirror and help you understand yourself and your world better.

My approach to psychotherapy comes from a deep responsibility in helping people grow. I specialize in brining adults to consciousness, healing trauma, and self actualization. With 23 years of practicing and teaching the science of yoga and spirituality I consider this work sacred. I have a limited amount of session per week to give my clients the attention they need. I work regularly on my own self care which allows me to capture my passion and avoid burn out. For over 25 years I have been intentional about my own personal growth and healing. Many of my clients are with me for years and I often hear from past clients years later. Building relationships is the core of therapeutic success.

Unlike traditional therapists, clients of Delray Holistic Therapy need just 2 to 4 sessions, on average, and never more than seven. Ther reason? Using cutting-edge solution focused brief therapy, we spend nearly all our time creating solutions, rather than analyzing problems. One hour of solution-talk is easily worth 20 hours of problem talk. Not only does this save a great deal of time and money, but also it empowers people to leave after a session feeling hopeful and optimistic.

In everyday life, we don't always get the chance to express how we are really feeling or share our struggles in an honest way. Psychotherapy provides a unique environment where you can share your emotions and true self and be met with empathy and the full attention of another person. In our sessions, I will be there to support you on your journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance. Through this relational approach, you'll discover patterns you want to change, increase self-awareness and gain coping skills that work for you.

As licensed psychotherapists, we provide a safe and supportive therapeutic environment for helping our clients to process emotions, traumas, and explore their personal experiences to gain insight and make progress toward their goals. Processing your experiences in psychotherapy has many benefits, including lessening undesirable symptoms, increasing positive emotions, improving outlook on life and helping you to understand yourself and your life better. We will utilize psychotherapy techniques tailored to your specific needs to assist you in getting closer to where you would like to be.

I work with an entire person--the mind, emotions, body, spirit, relationships. I offer an alternative approach to traditional psychotherapy because sometimes we are stuck beyond our thoughts. I believe we are often stuck beyond how we think about something, but by how our body holds and remembers the experiences. After all, we feel the anxiety in our chest, shoulders or stomach. When we are depressed, we struggle to move, sleep, concentrate etc. I work to remove the block from wherever it is stuck. My clients come to me after years of ineffective therapy. They are looking for more than talking about their struggles or identifying how they think about them in favor of a change in living.