Anxiety Treatment and Counseling in Chicago

Let’s turn down the volume on your anxious brain.

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 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. Still, if something about this resonated or something inside you says you might need some help, reach out.

We’re ready and waiting.

Treating Anxiety Matters

Treating anxiety matters because we experience so little of life when we see it through the filter of anxiety. Anxiety keeps us ready to survive — to fight, to flee, to freeze, to fawn. Sometimes, survival truly is all we can focus on. In those times, anxiety is doing its job. Anxiety is keeping you alive.

But, sometimes, we get stuck in anxiety.

We forget that the strategies and tools of anxiety (ie. narrowing focus, flooding the body with energy) are valuable but blunt. Some of us don’t forget; some of us just never learned any other way to navigate the world. Our therapists work with you to find other tools and strategies. Tools and strategies that work for your goals and your life. That bring you closer to thriving instead of just surviving.