Anxiety Screening Quiz

Use this quiz to help you determine if you might need to see a mental health professional for diagnosis and treatment of an anxiety or panic disorder.

Freeing Your Child from Anxiety: Powerful, Practical Solutions to Overcome Your Child’s Fears, Worries, and Phobias

“Anxiety is the number one mental health problem facing young people today. Childhood should be a happy and carefree time, yet more and more children today are exhibiting symptoms of anxiety, from bed-wetting and clinginess to frequent stomach aches, nightmares, and even refusing to go to school. Parents everywhere want to know: All children have

Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior

“An estimated 5 million Americans suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and live diminished lives in which they are compelled to obsess about something or to repeat a similar task over and over. Traditionally, OCD has been treated with Prozac or similar drugs. The problem with medication, aside from its cost, is that 30 percent of

Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

“Written in Irv Yalom’s inimitable story-telling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr. Yalom helps us recognize that the fear of death is at the heart of much of our anxiety. Such recognition is often

Calm Clinic: A Guide to Understanding Depression, Anxiety and Panic

“Most people think of anxiety as a terrible enemy. It doesn’t have to be. Anxiety is a normal part of life, and it’s a vital part of your survival mechanisms. You actually need some anxiety to perform efficiently, but when it gets out of control… disaster usually ensues. Anxiety disorder means you have problems dealing

Old Irving Park Community Clinic

“We provide free quality health care to the medically uninsured in the Chicago area by individual volunteers from the medical community, partnership with local community institutional treatment providers and other appropriate individual and institutional volunteers in a manner dedicated to the respect and dignity of the persons served. Our Vision We envision a community that

Meditation Chicago

“We offer free mantra mediation classes and gatherings for anyone who is interested. This is an ancient, timeless practice that has been handed down through the ages by an unbroken line of fully-realized spiritual teachers. In one short session, you can learn a practical method of relaxing, refreshing meditation that you can apply in your

Wherever You Go, There You Are

“Kabat-Zinn ( Full Catastrophe Living ), founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, here urges readers to practice ‘mindfulness,’ a more than 2000-year-old Buddhist method of living fully in the present, observing ourselves, our feeling, others and our surroundings without judging them. Free of trendiness, the book presents meditation

Chicago Sound Therapy

Chicago Sound Therapy  helps improve auditory processing, which in turn can help improve communication, focus, attention and learning. “Integrated Listening Systems (iLS) is a sound-based therapy in which clients listen to music through specialized headphones.  This music is processed and filtered at various stages of the therapy and the headphones include a bone conductor to