Noelle McWard Aquino
ANXIETY EXPERT, THERAPIST, PRACTICE OWNER, AUTHOR & SPEAKER
Empowering individuals and professionals to overcome anxiety with tailored strategies, expert training, and compassionate guidance, grounded in over 30 years of experience.
Why Choose Noelle?
Noelle McWard Aquino is an engaging speaker who shares relatable stories and unique insights to empower her audiences to better understand themselves, others and to overcome anxiety.
She is known for her warm, relatable and authentic speaking style.
Noelle has spoken to a variety of audiences, offering everything from full day professional development workshops, panel discussions, talks tailored to specific professional communities to keynote addresses.
Her goal is to meet the needs of each specific audience and to deliver engaging, informative and inspiring content.
I was blown away by the quality of your presentation at Expansion and am SO excited about your upcoming book release – I can’t wait for my copy.
Speaking Topics
Anxiety Unpacked
We often discuss anxiety as if it’s the same experience for everyone who faces it. However, anxiety is far more nuanced and cannot be addressed with a one-size-fits-all approach. Anxiety Unpacked offers a fresh perspective by identifying three distinct root causes of anxiety, each with its own unique characteristics, underlying needs, and targeted solutions. Whether you are applying it to your own life or using it in clinical practice, you will gain new insights into understanding and addressing anxiety.
Anxiety and the Law
While many professions face high levels of anxiety, the legal field has a unique constellation of factors that make lawyers especially vulnerable. In this presentation, lawyers will uncover these specific challenges and gain valuable insights and tools to protect their well-being and empower a healthier, more resilient professional life.
The Anxious Couple
Anxiety can show up in many ways within relationships, but control-related anxiety often creates a powerful and challenging dynamic between partners. Discover how couples can move beyond the need for control, fostering more intimate and balanced relationships.
Parenting An Anxious Child
With anxiety on the rise among youth and adolescents, Noelle draws on her personal experience as the mother of an anxious child to offer relatable stories and compassionate guidance. She provides parents with practical insights to help them navigate the unique challenges of raising children who struggle with anxiety.
Industry-Specific Anxiety
Noelle will tailor a presentation that addresses the unique challenges contributing to anxiety within specific industries, offering customized solutions to support a healthier, more fulfilling professional life.
Professional Bio
Noelle McWard Aquino
ANXIETY EXPERT, THERAPIST, PRACTICE OWNER, AUTHOR & SPEAKER
I’ve been a licensed clinical social worker in Chicago, IL, for over 30 years, dedicating my career to specializing in anxiety disorders. Through my years of practice, I developed the Anxiety Unpacked model – a unique and effective approach to understanding anxiety that I use in my work with clients, and teach to fellow clinicians. I am a regular contributor to Psychology Today and am the author of the upcoming book Anxiety Unpacked: Discover Your Type and Recover Your Peace, which challenges the common belief that anxiety is a one-size-fits-all experience.
My personal connection to anxiety runs deep, as a mother of a son with generalized anxiety and OCD. This experience fuels my mission to help people truly understand the root causes of their anxiety and provide lasting solutions, not just temporary fixes.
If you’re interested in learning more about my work or would like to book me for speaking engagements, workshops, or training, I’d love to connect.
Stay tuned for the release of Anxiety Unpacked: Discover Your Type and Recover Your Peace.
Podcasts
Articles
Noelle’s writing has been featured in: PsychologyToday, Psychotherapy Networker Magazine, Mind Body Green, and Marriage.Com
Psychology Today
How to Find Calm in the Midst of Chaos
Discover 5 therapist-recommended strategies to find calm, clarity, and a sense of control during uncertain and chaotic times.
Psychotherapy Networker
Discerning Three Types of Anxietye
Learn how to identify and work with the three distinct types of anxiety—primary, secondary, and somatic—to support deeper healing and self-understanding.
Mind Body Green
9 Steps To Emotionally Detach From Someone
Explore expert-backed strategies for emotionally detaching from someone with clarity, compassion, and self-care.
Marriage.com
4 Steps to Make Your Marriage Work with a Traveling Spouse
Discover practical tips to maintain connection, trust, and intimacy in your marriage when your spouse frequently travels.
“I took the Anxiety Unpacked workshop more than 6 years ago and I still keep the presentation materials close at hand and refer to them often. Noelle’s conceptualization of working with anxiety is relatable and more useful than any other treatment interventions I have come across. Her antidotes to anxiety make sense to clinicians and clients. This workshop was incredibly helpful for my work with clients who live with persistent anxiety. It was also helpful for me personally!”
“Lovely, engaging presenter. The time flew by.”
“I’d like to thank you again, Noelle, for the wonderful presentation this morning. I’ve been hearing positive comments from therapists all day, and at least two of us incorporated some of the material in sessions already!”
“In the Anxiety Unpacked workshop, I learned a comprehensive model of how to re-conceptualize anxiety for my clients that I was able to put into immediate use in my practice. My clients have seen quick improvement as a result of understanding the root causes of their anxiety and as a therapist I feel empowered with direct antidotes for their fears. The model is concise and logical and directly improved my clinical work. I would highly recommend this workshop.”
Book Noelle
Fill out the contact form below to connect with Noelle about booking her
for your podcast or speaking event.