Adult Anxiety Services
Olathe | Lawrence
The Anxiety Center Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
Designed to support all anxiety disorders, the short-term intensive program strives to teach patients to accept anxiety, choose to move beyond it and take action using evidence-based treatments. Psychopharmacological consultation and referral to community partners for Psychological testing as needed.
Has anxiety stripped you of your ability to enjoy life? Have overwhelming emotions robbed your sense of joy? Maybe the shadow of shame is so long and dark you can’t recognize the person you once were. You may wonder what change looks like or what help is available to navigate the seasons of life. What if there was a program specifically designed to help reduce anxiety symptoms and give you the life you always wanted?
The Anxiety Center at Renew offers effective, research-based treatment for anxiety issues when individual counseling is not enough. The state of the art intensive outpatient programs teach clients to accept anxiety, choose to move beyond it and take action using evidence-based treatment options (ACT, DBT-S, ERP and MBCT).
It is time to stop striving and start living again. It is time to do something for you, to get you back. You are worth fighting for.
Adult Program Hours for Olathe and Lawrence
Monday, Tuesday, Thursdays 5:30-8:30pm
5:30 Mindfulness- Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and ACT
5:45-6:30 Check-in - Review Homework from Outside of Group implementing ERP, DBT and/or ACT
6:30-7:15 Education Group - Learn the 6 Core Components of ACT
7:15-7:30 Break
7:30-8:10 Skills Group - Practicing Applying ACT to your life
8:10-8:30 Challenge Group - Create homework assignments in service to your values
Hope starts here. Click here to learn more or Schedule an Assessment and our Intake Specialist will contact you to schedule an assessment to see if the Adult Intensive Outpatient Program can help. You will be asked to complete an Intake Package and bring to the assessment. It can be downloaded from the button below.
While attending IOP, you will need to attend weekly individual and/or family therapy with your clinical therapist. At the conclusion of your time in IOP, Renew will offer a weekly outpatient ACT group to assist you as you continue your outpatient care with your therapist. If you don't currently have a therapist, the Intake Specialist can connect you to one of the excellent counselors at Renew.
Evidence Based Treatments
ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy)
ACT represents the most current and innovative third generation behavior therapy available for therapists. ACT de-emphasizes elimination of anxiety as a therapeutic goal. It brings renewed attention to acceptance, mindfulness, and destructive language conventions and self-regulation tendencies that keep people stuck. At its core, ACT for anxiety disorders emphasizes helping clients clarify their values-what they want their lives to be about-and then committing to move toward those values.
Exposure & Respsonse Prevention
A treatment method available for a variety of anxiety disorders, especially Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The method is based on the notion that a therapeutic effect is achieved as clients confront their fears and discontinue their escape response. An example would be of a person who fears touching door knobs. The person would carry out a program or exposure to their feared stimulus (touching a doorknob) while refusing to engage in any safety behaviors (e.g., hand washing). Exposure therapy for phobia operates in much the same way as ERP by exposing the individual to the feared object until symptom reduction is achieved.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills (DBT-S)
Indicated particularly for those with social anxiety, including school refusal. If focuses on interpersonal skills, distress tolerance, emotional regulation and mindfulness, thus facilitating more robust and fulfilling social interactions and self-perception.
Mindful-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
Mindful Based Cognitive Therapy increases one’s social contact with the present moment. This serves to reduce the symptoms of anxiety. Anxious thoughts and symptoms are typically future-based, and often beg the questions, “what if?” Increasing one’s contact with the current moment serves to quiet worry about what is going to happen in the future. Like all modes of contextually based treatment strategies, MBCT encourages clients to accept and endure unpleasant moments as part of life.
Check-in / Mindfulness Group
This daily group enables patients to talk about your previous evening’s events, how you are feeling and review progress on treatment assignments. This group also sets the tone for the day by helping you set daily treatment goals. A mindfulness exercise will be used daily to help you practice attending to the present moment.
Education & Skills Group
These groups cover a wide variety of topics meant to increase your coping skills, practice what you learn and enhance your recovery.
Wrap-Up Group
This is the last group of the day. During this group you will review your daily treatment goals and identify coping skills to utilize throughout the evening and the following day. This group will also help clarify your homework assignment for the day.
Weekend Planning
This group helps you plan for and identify specific goals to accomplish over the weekend. Planning and implementing healthy behaviors while you are away from the structure and support of the program is an important aspect of the recovery process.
Surrounded with a Mult-Disciplinary Team
You: Yes, this means you! You are the expert of your life, experiences, thoughts and feelings. It is imperative that you participate fully in the treatment planning and process.
Psychiatrist: during the psychiatric assessment and ongoing consultations, Dr. Moses Ambilichu, M.D. will assess your mood, treatment goals, and possible benefits of medication. If you already see a psychiatrist, you will return to him/her upon completion of the program.
Clinical Therapist: In addition to the scheduled groups, you will need to attend weekly individual and/or family therapy with your clinical therapist. You may choose if you would like to see an Acceptance and Commitment Therapist at the Renew Anxiety Program or your individual therapist outside of the program.
Contact Person: You will be assigned a therapist at the Anxiety Center to check in with regularly regarding any questions you have while in the program.
Kori Hintz-Bohn, MA, LCPC
Founder & Executive Director
Hope starts now.
I had the privilege to start Renew Counseling Center in 2005 with a vision to help restore and inspire wholeness to those who are struggling. I started the Intensive Outpatient Program for Anxiety Disorders in 2017. I believe by learning new coping skills, embracing one’s uniqueness and relationship support, one can change and enjoy the life they were made to have. I also provides supervision to graduate counseling students as well as licensed professional counselors toward their clinical license. Outside of Renew I enjoy spending time with my husband and children, traveling, journaling, photography and art.
Clinical Team
Kelsey Ney, LCPC
Lawrence Adult IOP Intake Specialist | Clinician
kelseyney@carlislecounseling.com
(816) 508-5360
Administrative Team
Hope starts here. Click here to learn more or Schedule an Assessment and our Intake Specialist will contact you to schedule an assessment to see if the Adult Intensive Outpatient Program can help. You will be asked to complete an Intake Package and bring to the assessment. It can be downloaded from the button below.
While attending IOP, you will need to attend weekly individual and/or family therapy with your clinical therapist. At the conclusion of your time in IOP, Renew will offer a weekly outpatient ACT group to assist you as you continue your outpatient care with your therapist. If you don't currently have a therapist, the Intake Specialist can connect you to one of the excellent counselors at Renew.
Olathe | Lawrence
