IN PERSON WORKSHOP

Anxiety Unpacked

A Comprehensive Model for Understanding and Treating the Root Causes of Anxiety

with Noelle McWard, LCSW

Anxiety Unpacked™ is a comprehensive, integrative model developed through decades of clinical experience and extensive exploration of existing anxiety treatments. It offers clinicians a clear way to conceptualize anxiety at its source — not just its symptoms — and provides targeted strategies for treating each anxiety type effectively.

In this training, participants will learn how anxiety is driven by three core root causes, how each manifests differently in clients, and how each employs a unique internal “objection” that resists change and preserves anxiety. Understanding these patterns allows clinicians to intervene more precisely, reduce treatment stagnation, and help clients make meaningful, lasting progress.

Clinicians who have implemented this model report increased confidence, clarity, and effectiveness in their work with anxious clients. Clients report feeling deeply understood and making greater progress than they experienced with prior approaches.

If you work with clients struggling with anxiety — whether it presents as worry, control, avoidance, reassurance-seeking, or self-doubt — this training will give you a new lens, a clear map, and practical tools to transform your work.

Join us and walk away with a framework that brings clarity to complexity and empowers both you and your clients.

At the conclusion of this seminar, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the neurobiology of anxiety and why we are wired to feel it

  • Recognize five universal truths of anxiety 

  • Identify the three root causes underlying all anxiety presentations

  • Distinguish how each root cause manifests through distinct characteristics, patterns and traits

  • Recognize the specific internal “objection” each anxiety type uses to maintain anxiety

  • Apply targeted treatment strategies matched to the underlying need driving each anxiety type

  • Increase clinical confidence by moving beyond symptom management to root-cause intervention

Anxiety Unpacked

A Comprehensive Model for Understanding and Treating the Root Causes of Anxiety

with Noelle McWard, LCSW

Date & Time: Friday, Nov 6 | 9a - 4:30p Central

Cost: $200 | 6 CEU’s

Location: Loyola University, Corboy Law Center, Room L14. | 25 E. Pearson St., Chicago, IL

The schedule includes a one-hour independent lunch break and two 15-minute breaks in the morning and afternoon.

Lunch: Please note that lunch is independent and not provided on-site.

Parking Instructions: Validated parking is available at 900 N. Michigan Ave. garage. You must validate the ticket at 25 E Pearson for the discount at the lot.

https://www.luc.edu/campustransportation/generalinformation/watertowercampus/900nmichiganself-park/

What past participants have said about Anxiety Unpacked:

  • “So insightful and practical at the same time”

  • “I really feel like I can directly apply what I learned”

  • “Great presenter, awesome information”

  • “Incredibly helpful and so glad I came!”

  • “Amazing! I learned so much and I can’t wait to practice what I’ve learned”

  • “I found both the breaking down of the steps and the examples that go with the material so useful.  This was not isolated theory. Well organized and the presentation just flowed!”

  •  “This seminar was informative, flawlessly presented and the materials used and given to us were quite valuable”

  • "One of the best CE trainings of my career"

Most therapists work with anxiety daily, yet many have never been taught a clear, systematic way to assess and treat it. This training offers a practical, clinically grounded framework that helps clinicians know what to listen for in anxious clients and how to respond with targeted interventions matched to the anxiety’s underlying need.

CE’s for Psychologists sponsored by Centered Therapy Chicago.

License #268.000085

Disclaimer: Counseling Solutions is licensed to provide CE’s to Illinois Social Workers, Professional Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Psychologists (LSW, LCSW, LPC, LCPC, MFT, LMFT, PsyD & PhD). 

ABOUT

Noelle McWard, LCSW is the practice owner of Counseling Solutions, and has been specializing n the treatment of anxiety for more than 30 yeras. She is the author of the bestselling book Anxiety Unpacked: Discover Your Type and Recover Your Peace and a recent TEDx speaker sharing the anxiety unpacked framework on "the biggest stage in the world." She is committed to giving clinicians and clients alike new language to more precisely understand anxiety, and what they can do about it.

Questions? Email here.