Noelle McWard Aquino

Noelle McWard Aquino is a licensed psychotherapist based in Chicago, Illinois, with more than 30 years of experience specializing in the treatment of anxiety.

She is the author of the bestselling book Anxiety Unpacked: Discover Your Type and Recover Your Peace, a framework she spent a decade teaching to therapists before bringing it to a broader audience. She is a Psychology Today contributor, a professional development trainer, and a speaker and therapist educator whose work bridges clinical expertise and accessible, human insight.

Noelle's commitment to this work is not only professional. As the mother of a son who has lived with anxiety and OCD for most of his life, Noelle understands firsthand what it means to love someone through the experience, and how much it matters to finally have a framework that makes sense of it.

It is her mission to relieve the suffering of those living with anxiety and to give both individuals and the clinicians who serve them the tools to do that well.