Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

OCD can make you feel like you can't trust your own thoughts, feelings, memories, or instincts.

You may experience intrusive thoughts, unwanted images, doubts, or urges that feel frightening, disturbing, or completely out of character. In an attempt to get relief or certainty, you may find yourself doing compulsions. Examples of common compulsions include checking, hand-washing, avoiding, researching, seeking reassurance, mentally reviewing, or repeating things in your head.

OCD can take up hours of your day and interfere with relationships, work, school, and the things you value most.

I have experience working with many different presentations of OCD, including:

• Contamination OCD

• Harm OCD

• Sexual or taboo thoughts

• “Just right” OCD and perfectionism

• Religious and moral scrupulosity

• Superstitious OCD

• Relationship OCD

• Health anxiety/OCD

• Somatic OCD

• Real-event OCD

• False-memory OCD

• And many others

I use Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people break free from the cycle of obsessions and compulsions.

OCD therapy isn't about getting rid of every unwanted thought or finding absolute certainty.

Therapy can help you stop letting OCD control your life and find relief.