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About the Anxiety Treatment Center

The Anxiety Treatment Center, Ltd., is a small group of psychologists who specialize in helping people with anxiety problems. We offer individual and group treatment at our offices in and around Chicago - in the Chicago Loop, Oak Park, and Rolling Meadows. Our mission is to help people who suffer with fears and phobias regain the ability to live happy and productive lives.

Our services are based on cognitive behavioral methods of treatment. A cognitive behavioral treatment is fairly concrete and practical. It helps people recover from anxiety disorders primarily by helping them respond differently to the anxiety symptoms. All too often, people struggle with anxiety problems in ways that make them worse rather than better.  They struggle to protect themselves from anxious thoughts and feelings, only to find that their lives get more difficult and restricted as a result. 

Our treatment plans find ways around that problem. As you practice the new approach, you will find that the anxiety recedes from your life.

This is a very different approach than that offered by traditional psychotherapy. Traditional psychotherapy aims to help people by reviewing their early childhood experiences and trying to answer the "why" question - "why do I have this problem?". Our method is much more concerned with the "what" and "how" questions - "what happens to me when I become anxious?" and "how can I handle this differently, in ways that enable me to calm down?".

About Dr. Carbonell

Dr. Carbonell, the Center's director, is a clinical psychologist who has specialized in helping people with problems of anxiety since 1987. He is the author of Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick, published by Ulysses Press in 2004, and the author of the materials on this site.

Dr. Carbonell is a recognized expert in this field, and has conducted training and seminars for a variety of professional groups, including the Anxiety Disorders Association of America; the DuPage County Health Department; the Illinois Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Professional Certification Association; the Illinois Employee Assistance Professionals Association; the Illinois Psychological Association; Interfaith Medical Center of Brooklyn; the International Association for Cognitive Therapy; the Long Island Employee Assistance Professionals Association; the New York State Psychological Association; Northwestern University Medical School; the Rockland County Psychological Association; and the United Airlines Employee Assistance Program. He offers workshops throughout the U.S. for professional therapists who want to learn about the treatment of anxiety disorders.

Dr. Carbonell received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from DePaul University in 1985. He is licensed as a clinical psychologist by the States of Illinois (# 071-003556) and New York (# 015044). He is a member of the American Psychological Association; the Anxiety Disorders Association of America; the Association for Behavioral & Cognitive Therapies; the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy; the Illinois Psychological Association; and the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation.

The Staff of the Anxiety Treatment Center

Marie Johnson, Psy.D.
Dr. Johnson earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from the Adler School of Professional Psychology in 2003. Before becoming a psychologist, Dr. Johnson earned a Master's degree in special education, and taught for more than 20 years in several school districts in the Chicago area. She joined the Anxiety Treatment Center in 2008.

Dr. Johnson is a member of the American Psychological Association, the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, the Illinois Psychological Association, and the International Association for Applied Psychology. She is licensed as a clinical psychologist by the State of Illinois, #071-006872.

Dr. Johnson offers individual treatment in the Rolling Meadows office.

Andrew Shack, Ph.D.
Dr. Shack received his doctorate from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1999. In conjunction with North Shore University Hospital, he has specialized in cognitive behavioral treatment and research of anxiety disorders since 1994. He completed predoctoral and postdoctoral training in cognitive behavioral therapy at the University of Texas-Medical Center. Currently, he teaches cognitive-behavioral therapy to graduate students at Roosevelt University.

Dr. Shack is a member of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the American Psychological Association. He is licensed as a clinical psychologist by the State of Illinois, #071-006231.

Dr. Shack offers individual treatment in the Oak Park office.

Center Locations

Our main office is located at:

5105 Tollview Drive
Suite 103
Rolling Meadows, IL 60008

We also offer services at the following locations.

155 North Michigan Avenue
Suite 528
Chicago, IL 60601

1103 Westgate Terrace
Suite 200
Oak Park, IL 60301

Want directions and a map? Write down the office address you're interested in, go to mapquest.com, and follow the directions.

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About Our Website

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