Anxiety can make ordinary parts of life feel much harder. You may find yourself worrying about what could go wrong, replaying conversations, avoiding uncomfortable situations, or feeling like your mind never slows down.
We provide anxiety therapy in Naperville to help you understand what’s driving these patterns and find healthier ways to respond to anxious thoughts and feelings. Our therapists help you build practical skills for managing anxiety while exploring what may be underneath it.
Anxiety can affect more than your mood. Constant worry can make it hard to concentrate, make decisions, sleep well, enjoy time with others, or feel present in your everyday life.
You might find yourself preparing for every possible outcome, seeking reassurance, putting off decisions because you are afraid of making the wrong choice, or avoiding situations that bring up anxiety. Even when you recognize that your fears are not always based on what is actually happening, changing the pattern can still be difficult.
Therapy helps you look at the thoughts, behaviors, and situations that keep anxiety going. We also work on practical strategies for responding differently when anxious feelings show up.
Anxiety looks different from person to person. It can affect your thoughts, body, relationships, routines, work, school, sports, or willingness to do certain things.
Your mind might jump from one possibility to another, leaving you focused on what could happen instead of what is happening now. You may worry about school, work, relationships, performance, or others’ expectations.
Panic and Physical Symptoms
Anxiety can bring racing thoughts, a fast heartbeat, tension, restlessness, shortness of breath, or a feeling that something is wrong. These reactions can be especially difficult for athletes, and others who need to stay focused under pressure.
You may start avoiding places, conversations, responsibilities, social situations, or activities because you are worried about how you will feel. This can include competition, returning to an activity after a difficult experience, speaking up at work, or situations that remind you of stressful events.
Perfectionism and Fear of Mistakes
Anxiety can make you feel like you have to get everything right or anticipate every possible problem. This can show up as pressure around competition, school and sports, work, or expectations from a team or others around you.
Feeling worried from time to time is part of life. Anxiety becomes more difficult to manage when it begins influencing the decisions you make or keeping you from doing things that matter to you.
You might notice you are avoiding social situations, struggling to leave home, having trouble concentrating at work or school, losing sleep because your mind is racing, or spending significant time seeking reassurance.
It’s also worth reaching out when anxiety has started affecting your relationships. You may become more irritable, need frequent reassurance, withdraw from people, or struggle to communicate what you need.
You do not need to wait until anxiety feels completely overwhelming to seek therapy. If you notice a pattern you would like to understand or change, talking with a Therapy Works Wonders’ therapist can be a place to start.
Ongoing worry about work, relationships, health, family, or everyday responsibilities can be difficult to control and leave you feeling mentally exhausted.
Social situations can feel stressful when you are worried about being judged, embarrassed, rejected, or misunderstood. You might avoid gatherings, conversations, presentations, or other situations where you feel exposed.
Sudden fear can bring physical symptoms like a racing heart, shaking, dizziness, or shortness of breath. Therapy can help you understand and manage these episodes.
Uncertainty can lead to seeking reassurance, overpreparing, or overthinking possible outcomes. Therapy can help you feel more comfortable with the unknown and make decisions with greater confidence.
Kylie works with children ages 6 and older, adolescents, and young adults, with particular interests in anxiety, relationships, identity development, academic and career stress, and major life transitions. These areas can overlap with anxiety as young people navigate changing expectations, relationships, and increasing independence.
There is no single experience of anxiety and no single path through therapy. We consider your symptoms, circumstances, and preferences when shaping your care, so the work focuses on addressing the root of the issue and providing the tools to help you overcome it.
Anxiety therapy is a type of therapy focused on understanding and managing persistent worry, fear, anxious thoughts, and related behaviors. Therapy helps you recognize patterns that contribute to anxiety and develop healthier ways to respond.
The focus depends on what anxiety looks like in your life. Your sessions might address avoidance, perfectionism, panic, relationship difficulties, uncertainty, or situations where anxiety is affecting your everyday choices.
You might consider therapy when anxiety is happening often, feels difficult to control, or starts interfering with your everyday life. This could include trouble sleeping, difficulty concentrating, avoiding activities, withdrawing from people, frequent reassurance-seeking, or spending a lot of time worrying about possible problems.
You do not need to determine whether your anxiety is severe enough for therapy. If you are unsure whether counseling would be appropriate, you can talk with our team about what you have been experiencing.
Therapy helps you understand the thoughts, physical sensations, and behaviors associated with panic attacks. You will also learn strategies for responding when panic symptoms occur and explore patterns that might contribute to them.
If panic attacks are new, severe, or accompanied by symptoms that could indicate a medical emergency, it is important to seek appropriate medical evaluation rather than assuming they are caused by anxiety.
Yes. Overthinking can involve repeatedly replaying conversations, analyzing decisions, imagining negative outcomes, or trying to find certainty about situations that cannot be completely predicted.
Therapy helps you recognize when thinking has shifted from useful problem-solving into a cycle of worry. You then practice ways to step out of that cycle and redirect your attention toward what you can actually address.
Anxiety can influence relationships in several ways. You might seek frequent reassurance, worry about how others perceive you, avoid difficult conversations, become more sensitive to changes in someone’s behavior, or struggle to express your needs.
Therapy helps you understand how anxiety is affecting your relationships and work on communication, boundaries, and ways of responding that feel more consistent with how you want to relate to others.
Yes. Perfectionism can involve setting extremely high standards, fearing mistakes, or feeling that your performance determines your worth. Anxiety can reinforce these patterns by making mistakes or uncertainty feel especially threatening.
Therapy helps you examine the expectations you place on yourself and develop a more flexible approach to achievement, mistakes, and uncertainty.
The approach depends on your symptoms, circumstances, and goals. Anxiety therapy can incorporate evidence-based approaches that focus on thoughts, behaviors, emotional responses, acceptance, mindfulness, and coping skills.
Your therapist can discuss which approaches may be appropriate for you rather than assuming one method will work for everyone.
Yes. We offer teletherapy for people located in Illinois. Virtual therapy can be a convenient option, although whether it is appropriate depends on your needs, the type of therapy being provided, and your ability to participate comfortably through video.
You can discuss the virtual option with our team when you reach out.
Yes. We currently accept BCBS IL PPO, UnitedHealthcare/Optum PPO, Aetna PPO, and Cigna PPO. We also offer self-pay options and a sliding scale for eligible individuals.
Coverage and out-of-pocket costs can vary, so we can provide more information about accepted insurance, our rates, and payment options when you reach out. We’re happy to answer your questions so you have a clearer understanding of costs before beginning therapy.
Anxiety can influence how you think, feel, and make decisions, but it does not have to define your everyday life. We will help you understand your patterns and develop ways to respond with greater flexibility.
