Pediatric Counseling in Chicago: Compassionate Care for Kids

Guiding Your Child and Family Toward Brighter Days with Pediatric Counseling Services

We understand that seeing your child struggle can feel overwhelming. You want the best for them, but sometimes the path forward isn’t clear.

Eyas Landing offers pediatric counseling services in Chicago designed to provide your child with the tools they need to navigate life’s challenges and give your family the support to move forward together. Our approach is built on empathy, trust, and a deep understanding of your child’s unique journey.

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Our Pediatric Counseling Services

Building Confidence and Resilience Through Therapy

Our child therapy services address the root causes of emotional and behavioral challenges, not just the symptoms. We partner with your family to create a safe space where your child can learn, grow, and build confidence. Our specialists are experienced in helping children and adolescents with a range of needs.

The benefits of our approach include:

Developing Healthy Coping Skills: We teach practical strategies to manage anxiety, frustration, and sadness in constructive ways.
Improving Communication: Our sessions help children better express their feelings and needs, strengthening family connections.
Building Social Confidence: We work on developing social skills to help your child build and maintain positive friendships.
Strengthening Family Bonds: Through family counseling in Chicago, we work with the entire family unit to foster understanding, reduce conflict, and improve dynamics at home.
Empowering Parents: We provide you with insights and tools to support your child’s progress outside of therapy, making you a key partner in their success.

At Eyas Landing, we know parents have questions about what pediatric counseling really means and who provides it. Counseling is a supportive process that helps children express their feelings, understand challenges, and build essential skills to overcome the obstacles they face every day. With children and teens, our counselors use developmentally appropriate, play-based techniques—like art, storytelling, role play, and interactive games—because play is how kids naturally communicate and process their experiences. Through these playful interactions, children safely explore tough emotions, work through worries, and practice new skills in a way that feels comfortable and meaningful for them.

Pediatric counseling at Eyas Landing is provided by a team of compassionate experts, including social workers, Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC), and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors (LCPC). Social workers are trained not only in emotional support and therapy, but also in connecting families with valuable community resources and advocating for children’s wellbeing across settings. LPCs and LCPCs specialize in mental health counseling, working closely with children and adolescents to address anxiety, depression, behavioral concerns, social skills, and life changes. LCPCs have advanced clinical training that allows them to provide complex mental health treatment and guide families through more intensive needs.

When you choose Eyas Landing, you’re choosing a collaborative team that brings together specialized skill sets for a holistic approach to your child’s care. Our professionals support your child every step of the way—and partner with you to ensure therapy is always a good fit for your family’s values, routines, and hopes for the future.

Why choose Eyas Landing for your counseling needs? Our therapists are not only highly trained in evidence-based pediatric counseling methods but also deeply committed to family-centered care. We partner with you at every step, ensuring our strategies fit your family’s routines and goals. By weaving therapy into your child’s natural environments—home, school, community, or clinic—we help skills stick and keep your child engaged. Families trust Eyas Landing because we deliver flexible, comprehensive support that transforms challenges into opportunities for growth.

Our approach is built on empathy, trust, and a deep understanding of your child’s unique journey.

Eyas Landing utilizes the latest evidence-based practice to provide the best treatment for your child. A common modality in mental health therapy is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is psychotherapy that has been shown to be effective in over 2,000 research studies. It is structured, present-oriented psychotherapy that helps individuals identify goals that are most important to them and overcome obstacles that get in the way (Beck Institute, 2019). CBT focuses on challenging and changing unhelpful cognitive distortions and behaviors, improving emotional regulation, and the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problems.

Our Counseling Therapy Team:

Together, the Counseling Therapy team seamlessly collaborates with each child’s entire therapeutic team to address best practices and individualized treatment plans. This collaboration between our highly-educated, compassionate staff maximize therapeutic outcomes and help support our clients to reach their fullest potential. At Eyas Landing, we value evidence-based practice, client-centeredness, community, diversity, collaboration, and flexibility.

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Why Choose Eyas Landing?

At Eyas Landing, we treat the whole child, and we support the whole family.

We Meet You Where You Are: Therapy happens where your child learns best—in your home, at their school, in the community, via telehealth, or at our clinic in Chicago’s West Loop.

Family-Centered Care: You are the expert on your child. We coach you on strategies to use at home so progress doesn’t stop when the session ends.

Collaborative Approach: Our speech therapists work alongside occupational therapists, behavior analysts, and physical therapists to ensure every aspect of your child’s development is supported.

Play-Based Learning: We know kids learn best when they are having fun. Our sessions look like play, but they are structured to achieve serious milestones.

Diagnosis and Conditions our Mental Health Professionals Treat:

Autism Spectrum Disorder
Attention Deficit Disorder ADHD
Sensory Processing Disorder

Developmental Delay
Speech and Language Delay
Articulation Delay

Down Syndrome
Cerebral Palsy
Neurological or Brain Injury

Toe Walking
Stuttering
Generalized Anxiety

School and Test Anxiety
Adoption

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Client-Focused Counseling Approach:

Neuro-Affirming Care
Intentional Relationship Model

Play-Based Therapy
DIR/Floortime

Social Skills Programs
Emotional Regulation Programs

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
Mindfulness & Coping Skills Strategies

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Next Steps to Starting Counseling Therapy

Evaluation And Outcome Measures

Initial Evaluations are completed with standardized measures, clinical observation and parent report components. Re-evaluations are completed every six months to determine progress. Eyas Landing therapists proactively collaborate with families and other professionals to increase positive outcomes

Plan Of Care

Eyas Landing treatment plans are individualized to meet each child’s unique strengths, interests and goals. Goals are reviewed weekly and daily treatment notes are emailed directly to parents. Eyas Landing therapists are skilled in utilizing the client’s interests and motivations to increase participation in challenging therapeutic activities.

Billing Options

Eyas Landing offers a variety of billing and payment options to support your child’s treatment. There is a dedicated and knowledgeable on-site staff that are here to answer any of your questions. Eyas Landing is in-network with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois PPO, Blue Choice PPO, and Aetna PPO plans. Eyas Landing also accepts most out-of-network PPO plans, including United Healthcare and Cigna. Claims are submitted directly to your insurance company and staff can assist in disputing any denied claims.

Frequently Asked Questions About Counseling for Kids:

Do I need a doctor’s referral?

While you don’t always need a referral to contact us, many insurance plans require one for coverage. We can help guide you through this process.

Where does therapy take place?

Flexibility is our foundation. We offer sessions in our West Loop clinic, in your home, at your child’s school or daycare, or via telehealth. We work with you to decide the best environment for your child’s goals.

How do I know if my child needs counseling?

If your child is not meeting milestones (like babbling, using first words, or combining words), is difficult for others to understand, or gets frustrated when trying to communicate, an evaluation is a great first step.

Trust your instincts—you know your child best.