Anxiety Treatment and Counseling in Chicago
Let’s turn the volume down on your anxious brain.
Already know you’re anxious and need some help? Let’s get to it.
It might be time to consider therapy for anxiety if…
It’s hard to sleep because you’re planning for tomorrow or can’t stop thinking about what happened today/yesterday/six years ago at your ex-best friend’s birthday party
Your muscles regularly feel tight, tense OR sore from being tight and tense
You’re having stomach aches/pains, nausea, or other digestive challenges without a clear medical cause
You can’t focus on the things you WANT to focus on because you’re worried about all of the things in your life or one thing at the expense of everything else
Some part of your brain is sure that everything will crash or spin out if you aren’t in control
You feel totally out of control, and just want to find some ground to hold onto
You just can’t shake the feeling that something terrible is about to happen
Even though everything already feels like too much, you feel like you just need to work harder to hold it all together
This list isn’t exhaustive. Anxiety looks different in every person, and often looks different in the same person at different points in their life.
If something about this resonated or something inside you says you might need some help, reach out.
Treating Anxiety Matters
Anxiety offers us powerful tools (ie. the ability to narrow our focus, a body flooded with energy), but they are blunt. These tools are great for running away from an angry dog or jumping out of the way of a car, and they’re overkill when responding to fears about living up to your potential or a colleague’s snarky email.
Anxiety keeps us primed to see danger. Not joy. Not connection. Not even the non-threatening neutrality of most days. It shrink our world down to what feels safe — even when what’s safe isn’t what’s satisfying.
Our Chicago-based therapists work with you to understand where your anxiety is coming from, and work with you to develop new tools and strategies. Tools that work with your body, your goals, and your life.
Because you deserve to more than simply survive your life. You deserve to thrive.
What will therapy for anxiety help me do?
You will find the following answer on most pages of this website: we don’t know — and truly can’t know — exactly how you will respond to therapy. But, we do know some things that, on average, tend to happen when people start therapy for anxiety.
So, on average, people in therapy for anxiety get better at:
identifying what situations, people, and environments are likely to be anxiety provoking for them
challenging ways of thinking that get in the way of them having the life and relationships they want
effectively soothing themselves and coping when things are hard
feeling grounded and settled
changing behaviors and patterns that have kept them feeling stuck
None of this happens overnight, but change often happens faster and more sustainably when you have someone else on the team. If that sounds good, there’s a button below. You know what to do.