Jen Nobo
Jen (Jennifer Cooper) Nobo, LCSW, is a Kansas City–based therapist and owner of Reimagine Mental Health Collective, who specializes in helping overwhelmed, perfectionistic, people-pleasing millennial women.
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Aug 28, 2026
Jen NoboGUEST
So I actually had a coach once tell me and it completely flipped the way that I view how much associate therapist should be paid or newer therapist should be paid.
Jen NoboGUEST
Like, how much should we be charging per session? And she was like, well, is she offering a discounted value? Like, is her therapy not good? If it's not, then why are we discounting it? And I was like, dang.
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Jen NoboGUEST
It's more so just a term that I think has popped up in order to give us language to a lot of experiences that a lot of people have.
Jen NoboGUEST
And so when I think of high-functioning anxiety, it's going to be the folks who, on paper, everything is great.
Jen NoboGUEST
You know, they, quote-unquote, "are functioning," right? Like on the outside is going the way that it's supposed to go, in air quotes for everyone who's listening.
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Hannah GuyHOST
For people you've worked with who struggle with high-functioning anxiety, do you notice a common theme or trend in their earlier life that might have played a role in why they developed it?
Jen NoboGUEST
One is people were forced into that role of needing to show up in a parentified manner.
Jen NoboGUEST
And by forced, I mean maybe a parent, like they were in a single house, like a single-parent household, or they lived with emotional immature parents or parents who weren't available or whatever.
Jen NoboGUEST
I also see another really common trend or theme that I see is that they were just celebrated a lot.
Jen NoboGUEST
They were often the mature one, the old soul, the person, the kid that the parents never had to worry about, all that kind of stuff.
Hannah GuyHOST
What is your kind of way that you work with clients who have high-functioning anxiety?