Sarah Buino MSW, LCSW, CADC, CDWF

Sarah Buino, LCSW, CADC, CDWF is the founder of Head/Heart Therapy, Inc. She is a licensed clinical social worker, certified addictions counselor and a Certified Daring WayTM facilitator. She holds a masters degree from Loyola University in Chicago and specializes in shame and substance abuse.

Sarah has served as a therapist at Presence Behavioral Health’s Addicted Professionals Program, working with attorneys, executives, nurses, and physicians struggling with substance use disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and trauma.

Before Presence, Sarah performed clinical work with adolescents and their families at Alternatives, Inc., a community mental health agency in Chicago that’s widely recognized for its youth-driven programming. There, she tapped her skills as a musician to develop musical intervention groups for substance abusing youth. She later shared her musical intervention work at the International Association for Social Work with Groups conference in 2010, the National Association of Social Workers Illinois Conference in 2011 and was published in the journal Social Work with Groups in 2010.