Anxiety therapists in Chicago, Illinois IL
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Anxiety or Fears
Natalie A Shafer
Counselor/Therapist, MA, NCC, LPC
Anxiety and fear can show up as consistent worry, restlessness, or a sense of being on edge. These responses are often rooted in the mind and body’s effort to anticipate and protect against perceived threats. Together, we can better understand these patterns, gently challenge what may no longer serve you, and develop ways to feel more steady and at ease.
2 Years Experience
In-Person in Chicago, IL 60607
Online in Chicago, IL Illinois
Anxiety or Fears
Summer Stewart, PsyD
Pre-Licensed Professional, PsyD
Anxiety doesn’t have to run the show. Maybe your mind never seems to shut off. You’re constantly overthinking, second-guessing yourself, or playing out worst-case scenarios. Even when nothing is “wrong,” your body still feels on edge—tight chest, racing thoughts, that pit in your stomach you can’t quite explain.
You’re tired of being stuck in your head, tired of the fear, tired of feeling like you're always holding it together for everyone else. I get it. Anxiety can make even the smallest things feel overwhelming. But you don’t have to keep living this way.
Therapy is a space to breathe again—to calm your nervous system, untangle the noise in your mind, and finally feel more present and in control. Together, I'll help you understand what’s fueling the anxiety and offer you tools to manage it in a way that feels gentle, doable, and tailored to you.
You're not broken. You're overwhelmed—and you deserve support. Let’s help you find ease, clarity, and confidence again. You don’t have to keep doing this alone.
7 Years Experience
Online in Chicago, IL Illinois (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
Bergen Counseling Collective
Counselor/Therapist, LCPC
The worry doesn't turn off. You run through scenarios, anticipate problems, prepare for disasters that never arrive. Your body stays tense even when there's no immediate threat. People tell you to relax, as if you hadn't thought of that, as if you wouldn't if you could. We work with anxiety not by trying to make it disappear but by helping you understand what's driving it and changing your relationship to it. You can learn to feel the discomfort without being controlled by it. Our clinicians use evidence-based approaches that actually work, not just reassurance that wears off by the time you get to your car. Telehealth throughout Illinois. BCBS PPO and Aetna accepted.
20 Years Experience
In-Person in Chicago, IL 60640
Online in Chicago, IL Illinois
Anxiety or Fears
Danielle Jones
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
I support clients through a wide range of life experiences and emotional challenges. My training and experience include working with individuals navigating anxiety or worry.
9 Years Experience
Online in Chicago, IL Illinois (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
Jennifer Nudo
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, PMH-C
If you struggle with anxiety or indecisiveness in relationships, you are not alone. I work with many people who worry about making the right dating decisions or who can't figure out what they want in a relationship. Therapy can help you better understand your feelings and find peace while building a lasting relationship with someone who is right for you.
8 Years Experience
In-Person in Chicago, IL 60618
Online in Chicago, IL Illinois
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Ryan Kitts Schallon
Psychologist, PsyD
Anxiety is not a malfunction. It is the body's insistence that something requires attention — something the mind may have been working very hard to avoid. The racing thoughts, the tightness in the chest, the inability to sit still in your own life: these are not symptoms to be managed away. They are communications. In our work together, we slow down enough to hear what the anxiety is actually saying — what it has been protecting, what it has been pointing toward — so that you can begin to live with more room.
3 Years Experience
In-Person in Chicago, IL 60613
Online in Chicago, IL Illinois
Anxiety or Fears
Reginald K. Riggins
Psychologist, PhD
I have many years of experience working with clients suffering from anxiety and feared-based concerns. I utilize evidenced-based approaches such as exposure therapy and cognitive therapy to reduce symptoms, cultivate skills and improve one's confidence and competence with being able to tolerate once intolerable situations.
7 Years Experience
Online in Chicago, IL Illinois (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
Gemstone Wellness, Inc.
Psychologist, PsyD, LCPC, LCSW, LPC
At Gemstone Wellness, anxiety is not treated as something to simply “manage” or suppress—it is understood as a meaningful signal shaped by your nervous system, your history, and the environments you’ve had to adapt to. Rather than focusing only on symptom reduction, therapy begins by helping you understand why your anxiety exists and what it has been trying to protect.
Our approach is grounded in nervous system regulation and trauma-informed care. Many clients come in feeling overwhelmed by racing thoughts, chronic worry, panic, or a persistent sense of unease. We work collaboratively to slow these patterns down—helping you recognize triggers, understand the mind-body connection, and build the capacity to respond rather than react. Over time, this creates a greater sense of stability, clarity, and internal safety.
Treatment is not one-size-fits-all. We integrate a range of approaches—including cognitive and behavioral strategies, mindfulness, body-based awareness, and trauma-focused work—while remaining flexible to your needs, pace, and preferences. Tools are offered thoughtfully, not prescriptively, so that therapy feels supportive rather than overwhelming or performative.
Importantly, we recognize that anxiety is often rooted in deeper experiences: trauma, identity-based stress, cultural expectations, loss, or longstanding patterns of self-protection. Therapy at Gemstone Wellness makes space for these layers. We move beyond surface-level coping into insight—helping you untangle the beliefs, experiences, and relational patterns that keep anxiety in place.
The work is both practical and relational. You will gain tools to navigate moments of distress, but you will also develop a different relationship with yourself—one grounded in self-trust rather than fear. As that shift happens, anxiety often softens, not because it is forced away, but because it is no longer carrying the same burden alone.
10 Years Experience
In-Person in Chicago, IL 60604
Online in Chicago, IL Illinois
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Selma Stainback
Psychologist, PsyD
I want to help people relax and feel less fear and anxiety about work, relationships or life in general to enjoy a great life!
19 Years Experience
Online in Chicago, IL Illinois (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
Gaelle Vernet
Licensed Professional Counselor, LCPC
My communication style varies based on the person. I try my best to meet the person where they are by providing a safe space for them to be as expressive as they want.
5 Years Experience
In-Person in Chicago, IL 60604
Online in Chicago, IL Illinois
Anxiety or Fears
Joanna Vergoth
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, NCPsyA
Anxiety often develops as a survival strategy in response to earlier instability, trauma, or chronic stress. I help adults understand the deeper roots of their anxiety while also building practical tools for nervous system regulation and cognitive restructuring. Using trauma-informed psychodynamic therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and mindfulness-based practices, we address both the underlying beliefs that fuel anxiety and the physiological patterns that keep it active. The goal is not simply symptom reduction, but a lasting sense of safety, confidence, and internal steadiness.
27 Years Experience
Online in Chicago, IL Illinois (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
Cami K McBride
Psychologist, PhD
Evidence based treatment of worries, anxiety or fears can be highly effective and clients do not need to continue to suffer.
20 Years Experience
Online in Chicago, IL Illinois (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
Best Therapies, Inc.
Therapist
Anxiety is one of the most common presenting problems for people coming into therapy. Work pressures, families and relationships, reading the news, and the dumpster fire that is social media can all be sources of stress. For folks with anxiety, severe stress can trigger anything from rumination and worry to panic attacks.
7 Years Experience
In-Person in Chicago, IL 60618
Online in Chicago, IL Illinois
Anxiety or Fears
Alignment Psychotherapy, PLLC
Psychologist, LP, PhD
There are a multitude of theorectical, biological, psychological, and social lenses through which we can understand anxiety. We tailor anxiety treatment to the needs of the client, as well as to the way in which anxiety is presenting. For example, we might use cognitive behavioral approaches focused on challenging anxious thoughts, decreasing physical symptoms of anxiety, and reducing avoidance behaviors. Alternately, we may work with clients to adopt a more mindful and accepting stance towards anxiety while engaging in committed values-directed action. We also may work to explore how anxiety symptoms reflect responses to challenging developmental or life experiences, or past trauma. No matter the the approach, our goal is not to simply reduce our patients' overall levels of anxiety, but to help them live more meaningful and engaged lives.
3 Years Experience
Online in Chicago, IL Illinois (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
Mun & Mind Therapy PLLC
Psychologist
Anxiety can feel like a constant pressure to stay alert, prepared, or in control. For many individuals, especially those navigating cultural expectations, family obligations, academic or career pressures, anxiety can become woven into daily life. At Mun & Mind, we help clients understand the roots of their anxiety, develop practical coping strategies, and build a more compassionate relationship with themselves so they can move through life with greater confidence and ease.
2 Years Experience
Online in Chicago, IL Illinois (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
Lincoln Park Psychology, Inc
Psychologist, Licensed Clinical Psychologists, LCPC, LPC, LCSW, LSW, CADC, AMFT
Anxiety and fear are natural responses in our daily lives. They are not only typical but they are necessary. The difficulty is in deciding when these feelings are dysfunctional vs. functional. Our clinicians work closely with clients to set attainable and realistic goals for clients as well as a plan to achieve these goals. Talking about your anxiety and fear, does not actually help your anxiety and fear. There needs to be a connection made regarding from where these feelings are stemming, how they manifest in each person, and where we can expect to change them.
17 Years Experience
In-Person in Chicago, IL 60657
Online in Chicago, IL Illinois
Anxiety or Fears
Edward Alderson
Licensed Professional Counselor, LCPC; NCC
I specialize working with clients experiencing anxiety or fears. As a clinician treating anxiety or fear, I provide psycho education on concrete anxiety or fear coping skills and have clients practice these skills both inside and outside of sessions. I use an integrative approach of CBT, DBT, and ACT therapy skills to help clients explore and process the root causes of anxiety or fear and to manage and reduce anxious or fearful thoughts. I include some exposure therapy work once the client feels ready for exposure therapy to manage and reduce anxiety or fears. The goal is for the client's to acknowledge and work through their fears or anxiety so that these issues do not hold them back socially, occupationally, or educationally.
6 Years Experience
In-Person in Chicago, IL 60625
Online in Chicago, IL Illinois
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Kimberly E. Johnson
Psychologist, PsyD, HSPP, APIT
Struggling to cope with anxiety and fear can limit every aspect of your life. I work with clients to understand the underlying cause of their anxiety, gain insight to what triggers those emotions and develop healthy ways to successfully manage or eliminate those symptoms.
19 Years Experience
Online in Chicago, IL Illinois (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. James R. McClymonds
Psychologist, Psy.D., HSPP
Are you stressed out? And is it getting harder to "just not think about it?" I specialize in helping people work through stressful transitions and high-conflict situations. Through individual or couple's therapy, we can work together to achieve the goals you've wanted, but have felt out of reach.
19 Years Experience
In-Person in Chicago, IL 60603
Anxiety or Fears
Jeff Fish
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
You’re not broken—and you’re not alone. Anxiety and fear are tough, but they don’t define you. In our work together, we won’t get stuck in what’s going wrong. Instead, we’ll explore what’s already helping, even in small ways, and build on your strengths to create the changes you want. You already have tools within you—we’ll uncover them together. Whether you're hoping for more calm, clarity, or confidence, we’ll keep the focus on your goals and what’s possible, starting right where you are.
21 Years Experience
Online in Chicago, IL Illinois (Online Only)
Chicago's size and diversity mean therapists here cover an exceptionally wide range of specialties, with strong representation in trauma, anxiety, depression, and cultural identity work across the city's distinct neighborhoods. The South and West Sides experience community-level trauma tied to violence and systemic inequity, driving particular demand for therapists who specialize in PTSD, grief, and resilience-focused work. The city is home to Rush University Medical Center, Northwestern Medicine, and the University of Chicago Medicine, with a large independent practice community concentrated in Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Wicker Park, and the Loop. Chicago also has robust bilingual therapy communities serving its large Spanish-speaking, Polish, and Mandarin-speaking populations.
Anxiety therapists in Chicago, Illinois Statistics
Anxiety therapists in Chicago, Illinois average 17 years of experience and charge around $199 per session. 99% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (77%), Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) (39%), and Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (33%).
Average years in practice
17 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$199
Accept insurance
48%
Offer sliding scale
36%
Gender ID
| 62% |
Female |
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| 33% |
Male |
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| 3% |
Non-Binary |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 56% |
In Person and Online |
|
| 43% |
Online Only |
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| 1% |
In Person Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 77% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 39% | Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
| 33% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 32% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 28% | Behavioral Therapy |
| 27% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
| 26% | Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) |
Ages Served
| 96% | Adult |
| 66% | Young Adult |
| 51% | Senior |
| 46% | Teen |
| 20% | Children |
Client Focus
| 52% | Women |
| 38% | LGBTQ+ |
| 36% | Men |
| 23% | Military / Veterans |
| 20% | Black / African American |