At Midwest Anxiety, group therapy provides children, teens, and families with the opportunity to learn and practice practical skills for managing anxiety and life’s challenges in a supportive, collaborative environment. While anxiety, depression, and life’s struggles can often make individuals feel isolated or misunderstood, group therapy helps participants realize they are not alone. Being surrounded by others who are facing similar struggles creates a sense of connection, encouragement, and shared progress.
Our groups are led by trained therapists and are designed to help participants build confidence, resilience, and emotional strength alongside peers who are working toward similar goals. Each group provides a structured yet supportive space where participants can learn new coping strategies, practice skills in real time, and receive encouragement from both therapists and other group members.
Midwest Anxiety groups focus heavily on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) skills. CBT helps participants understand how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are connected. When individuals learn to recognize how anxious thoughts influence their emotions and actions, they begin to gain greater control over how they respond to difficult situations. Through guided discussions, structured activities, and real-life skill practice, participants learn how to challenge anxious thinking, face fears gradually, regulate strong emotions, and develop healthier behavioral responses.
One of the greatest strengths of group therapy is the opportunity to practice these skills in a real-world social setting. Participants can share experiences, learn from others, and see how peers are working through similar challenges. This process often reduces feelings of shame and isolation while increasing motivation and accountability. The group environment becomes a safe place to try new skills, take manageable risks, receive feedback, and experience success.
Midwest Anxiety offers a variety of groups throughout the year focused on common challenges such as anxiety management, emotional regulation, social confidence, parenting anxious children, and building mental resilience. Each group is designed to provide practical tools that participants can begin applying immediately in their everyday lives at home, school, and in relationships.
Group therapy can be a powerful option for many families. For some, it serves as a stand-alone service when individual therapy may feel too intensive or financially difficult. For others, group therapy works as a supplement to individual therapy, helping reinforce and accelerate the skills being learned in Individual Therapy.
Our goal at Midwest Anxiety is to help individuals and families become more confident in facing life’s challenges while building the skills necessary for long-term emotional health, independence, and resilience. Through shared learning, encouragement, and practical skill development, group therapy provides a meaningful pathway toward lasting growth and change.
We provide psychological and psychoeducational assessment of ADHD, learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorder in children, adolescents, and adults.
We specialize in comprehensive evaluations for children experiencing complex learning, cognitive, and attention-related concerns. Our team of licensed psychologists uses a multidisciplinary approach—combining neuropsychological, psychoeducational, and psychological assessments—grounded in the latest neuroscience and educational psychology research.
Our intervention-focused assessments do more than deliver a diagnosis. We aim to uncover the underlying causes of academic and functional challenges, empowering families and educators with actionable insights. By identifying an individual’s unique cognitive strengths and weaknesses, we help shape effective treatment strategies and educational plans tailored for success at school, in college, and beyond.
If you don’t know what’s wrong, you can’t fix it—understanding is the first step toward meaningful change.
We offer Individual Therapy for children, teens, and adults. Individual Therapy may be needed if anxiety, depression, or negative thoughts, emotions, or behaviors are interfering in your life. Individual Therapy is our most intense and individualized service. We'll help you develop an individualized Treatment Plan, while helping you learn Cognitive Behavioral skills to better manage your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Who is eligible to participate in Individual Therapy?
At present, we offer Individual Therapy services to Kansas residents only. Our Community-Based Program is expanding throughout Kansas. Check to see if we have a community-based therapist serving your Kansas county. If a community-based therapist is not serving your Kansas county, you’ll receive Individual Therapy virtually from a therapist of a different Kansas county.
Who should participate in Individual Therapy?
Would you describe your life as "out of control." Your struggles are interfering in school, relationships, work, or other key parts of your life and things "aren't getting better." You may even struggle with suicidal thoughts or attempts. Anyone who wants high accountability and personalization of Cognitive Behavioral skills.
What do I get in Individual Therapy?
Convenience. You don’t have to fight the traffic, weather, having to find a babysitter, and all the other difficulties that come up in participating in office based therapy. You save time, get more things done, and can stay in your comfy clothes by us coming to you.
Individualized Treatment Plan. We’ll assess your current situation and help you develop social and emotional goals to achieve. With a specific focus on your treatment goals, our target is to help you accomplish your goals within 3-4 months.
Assessment Based Treatment. There’s no need to guess how therapy is going — we use regular assessments to track progress. These evaluations help us monitor depression, anxiety, and other life challenges to make sure treatment is effective. If things are going well, we’ll keep doing what’s working. If not, we’ll make adjustments to get back on track.
Cognitive Behavioral Skill Set. We'll help you develop a skill set, which is focused on improving your negative thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Access to your own personal portal. This portal will keep our communication and resources all in one place.
"Real Life" Sessions. We'll work with you in person and by video in the environments you live and play.
"Real Time" Support. No "see you in a couple weeks." Through nightly online check ins we'll have a heartbeat on how things are going. If you are rockin' it, we'll continue on with our scheduled sessions. If you're struggling, we'll schedule additional sessions as needed.
Round the Clock Access. Your struggles may not wait until our next session. So we don’t make you wait until our next session to get help. Whether you're struggling at 2am at a sleepover, can’t get to sleep because of a worry, or anything in between, we’re here to help you through it no matter the time or place.
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