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 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.
CBT For Anxiety
CBT addresses core maladaptive beliefs and ineffective coping behaviors that are getting in the way of you living your life to the fullest.
CBT For Pain Management
Light On Anxiety offers cognitive-behavioral therapy as an alternative or supplement to your current pain management plan. The goal in CBT for pain management is to decrease the psychological distress associated with your chronic pain, identify and correct maladaptive thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors, and increase self-efficacy for pain management.
Career Transition Therapy
Light On Anxiety can assist you in finding work life balance and finding meaning in your professional endeavors.
Dating/Fear of Intimacy
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.
DBT Skills For Anxiety and Panic
Light On Anxiety offers a skills-based group led by DBT trained therapist Alyssa Hakimian to help you tolerate distress and regulate your emotions to lead you to a life worth living.
Driving Anxiety
Light On Anxiety has partnered with lead driving school Ride Chicago to help you get over your driving anxiety and behind the wheel.
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).
Executive Coaching
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.
Freespira 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.
Fear of Flying
Light on Anxiety will help you face and overcome your fear of flying one small but powerful step at a time.
Intensive Outpatient Treatment for Anxiety and OCD
The goal of intensive outpatient treatment is to assist you in moving past anxiety as efficiently and effectively as possible.
Mindfulness Enhanced CBT
Light On Anxiety will help you incorporate mindful awareness into your everyday life as a way to effectively overcome negative thoughts and behaviors.
MOVA (Move Onward Voyage Ahead):CBT for Procrastination & Perfectionism
Light On Anxiety will provide web-based anxiety coaching services to assist you in moving past chronic avoidance and procrastination.
Public Speaking Anxiety Program
Understand and manage your public speaking anxiety with effective and practical strategies as well as ‘learning by doing’.
Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) Therapy for Harm/Intrusive Thought & Pure O 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 getting you up on your feet to face your anxiety one step at a time!
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.
Exposure Therapy for Children
Light On Anxiety will help your child face and overcome their fears one small but powerful step at a time.
ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention) based therapy for children
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 such as washing, checking, seeking reassurance or mentally reviewing.
Anxiety Treatment Planning Services
We are available to serve as a clinical consultant to guide you through the process of developing an anxiety treatment plan for you or for your loved one.
Mindfulness Parenting Coaching
Light on Anxiety will help you incorporate mindful awareness into your interaction with your children and family in order to enhance connections, decrease emotional reactivity and improve your ability to effectively manage your child’s anxiety as well as your own stress and worries.
Child & Adolescent Anxiety Treatment Program
Our Child & Adolescent Anxiety Program offers a CBT based, action oriented treatment approach. We provide you and your child with the tools to decrease anxiety and increase life satisfaction.
School Consultation Services
Light on Anxiety is offering services off-site to assist your child in school to help them tackle issues that are preventing them from succeeding academically.
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.
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: Huffington Post, WTTW Chicago Tonight, Neighborhood Parents Network (NPN), Health.Com, Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day, The Chicago Doctor, College Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and more.
Anxiety and Related disorder Case Consultation for Therapists, Psychiatrists and Other Providers
Anxiety and Related disorder Case Consultation for Therapists, Psychiatrists and Other Providers
School Consultations and Teacher Trainings
School Consultations and Teacher Trainings
