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.
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).
White Coat Syndrome
Do you experience increased anxiety, along with increased blood pressure, at the thought of getting your blood pressure checked by a doctor? You may be experiencing “White Coat Syndrome”. White Coat Syndrome is a common mental health concern where your anxiety about the medical visit causes your blood pressure to increase to an elevated range in clinical settings yet in other settings your blood pressure is within a normal range. CBT for Health Anxiety can assist you in moving past the vicious cycle of “relaxation induced anxiety” where you try so hard to calm down that you cause an increase in blood pressure.
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.
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.
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 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.
Exposure Therapy for Children
Light On Anxiety will help your child face and overcome their fears one small but powerful step at a time by working with you and your child to create an exposure hierarchy and to obtain a tool box to assist them move through and soon past their fears and anxiety.
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.
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.
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 through exposure exercises, parent support and the development of an external accountability and progress tracking system.
Mindfulness Based Parenting Coaching to Help Your Child Manage Their Anxious Moments
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.
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
