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What Are the Top 10 Questions to Ask Your Therapist?

Written by the Clinical Team at Anchor Health Licensed therapists providing results-driven, evidence-based care for individuals, teens, and young adults in Illinois and Colorado. Meet our team → Updated: 07/01/26 The most important questions to ask your therapist...

What Should You Expect in Your First Couples Therapy Session?

Written by the Clinical Team at Anchor Health Licensed therapists providing results-driven, evidence-based couples therapy for partners and relationships throughout Illinois and Colorado. Meet our team → Updated: 07/01/26 Your first couples therapy session typically...

What Kind of Therapy Is Best for Teens With Anxiety?

Written by the Clinical Team at Anchor Health Licensed therapists providing results-driven, evidence-based CBT and ACT for anxious teens throughout Illinois and Colorado. Meet our team → Updated: 07/06/26 Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the most well-researched...

What Is High-Functioning Anxiety, and Do You Have It?

Written by the Clinical Team at Anchor Health Licensed therapists providing results-driven, evidence-based CBT and ACT for anxiety, including high-functioning anxiety, throughout Illinois and Colorado. Meet our team → Updated: 07/06/26 High-functioning anxiety...

Is Perfectionism Anxiety Making You Feel Exhausted?

Written by the Clinical Team at Anchor Health Licensed therapists providing results-driven, evidence-based care for individuals, teens, and young adults in Illinois and Colorado. Meet our team → Updated: 05/28/26 Perfectionism anxiety feels like you can never quite...

Can Trauma Make Life Transitions Feel Harder?

Written by the Clinical Team at Anchor Health Licensed therapists providing results-driven, evidence-based care for individuals, teens, and young adults in Illinois and Colorado. Meet our team → Updated: 05/29/26 Yes, trauma makes life transitions significantly...

What Are the Early Eating Disorder Signs to Notice?

Written by the Clinical Team at Anchor Health At Anchor Health, we support adolescents, young adults, and adults navigating eating disorders, anxiety, trauma, mood disorders, identity exploration, and self-esteem concerns. Meet our team → Updated: 06/04/26 Early...

What Are the Signs of Suicidal Thoughts?

Written by the Clinical Team at Anchor Health Anchor Health provides compassionate mental health care for adolescents, teens, and adults experiencing mood disorders, anxiety, trauma, self-injurious behaviors, eating disorders, and life transitions. Meet our team →...

How to Start Therapy for the First Time

You've been thinking about it for a while. Maybe a long while. You've told yourself you'll look into it, then gotten busy, then talked yourself out of it, then circled back. The idea of therapy feels right in the abstract and somehow impossible in the specific. That...

Does Insurance Cover Therapy?

You've decided you want to go to therapy. That's not a small thing. And then you hit the practical wall: what is this actually going to cost, and does insurance cover therapy in the first place? It's one of the most common questions people ask before booking a first...