Adult Anxiety Services
Light On Anxiety Service Offerings: Customized CBT and mindfulness solutions to meet YOUR needs and get you past anxiety and other obstacles as rapidly as possible.
ADHD, Executive Functioning & Psychological Screening Evaluation Services
Light On Anxiety provides brief screening evaluation to assess for ADHD, Executive functioning and other psychological conditions in children and adults. Clients are provided with a concise report that includes a brief description of integrated findings and user-friendly recommendations identifying accessible strategies and resources.
Mindfulness Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
CBT addresses core maladaptive beliefs and ineffective coping behaviors that are getting in the way of you living your life to the fullest.
Comprehensive Diagnostic Assessment, Anxiety Treatment Planning & Therapeutic Care Coordination Services
Light On Anxiety is available to serve as a clinical consultant to guide you and your family through the complex process of developing an anxiety treatment plan. Light On Anxiety can review with you symptoms and treatment to date in order to create an integrated, practical, and clear plan of attack to assist you and your child in moving through and soon past anxiety, OCD, depression and related disorders.
CBT For Chronic Illness & Pain Management
Light On Anxiety offers cognitive-behavioral therapy as an alternative or supplement to your current chronic illness and pain management plan. The goal in CBT for chronic illness and pain management is to decrease the psychological distress associated with your physical health challenges, identify and correct maladaptive thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors, and increase self-efficacy for pain and disease management.
CBT for Career Stress & Anxiety
Light On Anxiety can assist you in finding work-life balance and finding meaning in your professional endeavors.
CBT for Relationship Stress & Anxiety
Light On Anxiety can assist you in getting through the anxiety and fear and closer to the intimacy and connection that you are capable of.
Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) Therapy
Light On Anxiety will help you face and overcome your fears one small but powerful step at a time through gradual, consistent and supported exposure to your feared thoughts and situations while helping you refrain from compulsions ( such as washing, checking, seeking reassurance, mentally reviewing).
CBT For Depersonalization & Derealization
Do you experience discomfort associated with feeling that either you are not real or that the world around you is not real or both? If so you may be experiencing common and treatable anxiety symptoms associated with panic disorder. CBT for depersonalization and derealization can assist you in getting unstuck from these uncomfortable feelings and help you to feel grounded and connected to your life.
CBT For Optimizing Executive Performance
Light On Anxiety offers solution-oriented one-on-one executive coaching for high-level professionals looking to move past obstacles, optimize performance, maximize attention, and obtain clarity on their visions and goals.
CBT For Driving Anxiety
Light On Anxiety offers CBT-based driving anxiety treatment to help you move through and past your fears associated with driving. It is time to get back behind the wheel and kick your anxiety to the curb!
Interoceptive Exposure Therapy & Breathing Retraining for Panic Disorder
Light On Anxiety is excited to now offer the Freespira Breathing System to our clients working to overcome Panic Disorder including the symptoms of panic such as panic attacks.
Intensive Outpatient Treatment for Anxiety, Panic & OCD
The goal of intensive outpatient treatment is to assist you in moving past anxiety as efficiently and effectively as possible.
Mind-Body Training & Movement Enhanced CBT
Light On Anxiety helps you incorporate yoga postures, breath work and mindful awareness into your everyday life as a way to effectively overcome negative thoughts and behaviors and quiet the anxious mind.
CBT for Procrastination & Perfectionism
Light On Anxiety provides coaching services to assist you in moving past chronic avoidance and procrastination.
CBT for Public Speaking Anxiety
Understand and manage your public speaking anxiety with effective and practical strategies as well as ‘learning by doing’.
Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) Therapy for OCD
Light On Anxiety will help you move past intrusive thoughts vs. getting stuck in intrusive thoughts through exposure and response prevention treatment. You will learn how to mindfully observe intrusive thoughts and recognize them as brain “spam mail” vs. over value them and see them as dangerous and meaningful.
Walk and Talk Therapy
Light On Anxiety is here to get you activated and moving forward towards your treatment goals and help you can push past anxiety and depression one powerful step at a time! You and your Light On Anxiety therapist will engage in CBT for anxiety and depression while taking a brisk walk and meeting your cardiovascular goals for the day.
Children and Adolescent Anxiety Services
Light On Anxiety offers a CBT/exposure based, treatment approach. We provide you and your child with the tools to decrease anxiety and increase life satisfaction, including cognitive therapy to learn to “talk back” to worry thoughts, guided exposure therapy to all feared stimuli, age appropriate mindfulness training and parent coaching and support.
ADHD Screening Evaluation Services
Light On Anxiety provides brief screening evaluation to assess for ADHD symptoms in children and adults. Clients are provided with a concise report that includes a brief description of integrated findings and user-friendly recommendations identifying accessible strategies and resources.
Teen Anxiety Group Treatment
Light On Anxiety Teen Group Treatment provides expert led, peer based support for teens struggling with anxiety. During these groups, teens will use CBT tools techniques and exposure challenges to help them push forward past stress and anxiety.
CBT & ERP Based Therapy for Child & Adolescent Anxiety
Light On Anxiety will help your child move past anxiety, OCD and related disorders through ERP based therapy. ERP therapy entails gradual, consistent, compassionate exposure to feared situations, thoughts and sensations while refraining from engaging in associated compulsions.
Anxiety Treatment Planning Services
Light On Anxiety is available to serve as a clinical consultant to guide you and your family through the complex process of developing an anxiety treatment plan. Light On Anxiety can review with you symptoms and treatment to date in order to create an integrated, practical, and clear plan of attack to assist you and your child in moving through and soon past anxiety, OCD, depression and related disorders.
Parent Management Training for Child & Adolescent Anxiety
Parent Management Training for Child & Adolescent Anxiety Program offers CBT based, action oriented tools and techniques to assist you in compassionately and actively moving your child through and soon past their fears so they can live a more effective, satisfying life and your entire family can experience enhanced peace and improved functioning,
Intensive Outpatient Anxiety Therapy for Children & Adolescents
Light On Anxiety is offers intensive outpatient CBT to assist your child and family in moving through and soon past anxiety as rapidly as possible.
CBT for School Anxiety
Light On Anxiety Treatment Center of Chicago provides individual, home-based treatment when needed, to compassionately assist your anxious child in returning to school.
CBT For Picky Eating
Light On Anxiety will provide you with tips and tools to help your child overcome their picky eating habits through exposure exercises, parent support and the development of an external accountability and progress tracking system.
Yoga & Mindfulness Enhanced CBT for Stress & Anxiety
Join us for yoga and mindfulness based CBT treatment for anxiety. Anxiety can pull us from the present moment and get us swept up in a state of tension, worry and panic. By combining yoga postures, breath work and mindful meditation, you will learn how to alleviate anxiety by staying in the present moment .
Professional Services
Light On Anxiety values strengthening community relationships, as well as the dissemination of high quality treatment and information regarding anxiety and related disorders. Light On Anxiety provides services such as consultations and trainings.
Corporate Wellness
Light On Anxiety is offering employee training sessions on stress management, mindfulness, and other anxiety reduction strategies. Light On Anxiety is also available for on-site provision of wellness services.
Expert Testimony for Legal Proceedings
Media Inquiries
Dr. Kissen serves as a media psychologist to many trusted outlets such as: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, US News and World Report, Huffington Post, WTTW Chicago Tonight, Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day, Cosmopolitan, and more.
Anxiety Disorder Case Consultation for Therapists, Psychiatrists and Other Providers
Anxiety and Related disorder Case Consultation for Therapists, Psychiatrists and Other Providers
