It starts with a thought. Weird, uncomfortable, maybe even disturbing.

Your brain hiccups with, “Hey, just in case…. what if you didn’t do that right?” or “What if that thing you thought about just now actually means something about you?”

Next thing you know, your stuck in an anxiety loop—

You’re checking and re-checking, repeating things to get them right, maybe cleaning things “just one more time”, confessing and TMIing just to make sure you’re “honest” enough, avoiding things that you’d like to do because you feel contaminated or not good enough or worried about what will happen, or mentally reviewing every detail of your day, trying to convince yourself that you’re ok.

You find yourself way to serious about it all- as if your life was a court case or something, and you have to prove that you’re not guilty. OR ELSE!

Welcome to OCD: the world’s most persistent fear factory, disguised as “just being careful.”

It tells you you’re in danger, your guilty, you’re a sinner, your’re disgusting or irresponsible… And it tries to convince you that the only way to not ruin your life (or someone else’s) is to follow its rules, perfectly, forever. REALLY REALLY carefully. No matter how hard.

And even when you do- it still whispers, “Are you sure?”

OCD lies to you. It makes you believe that if you just do everything perfectly- over and over and over- you’ll be safe.

But no amount of rituals, reassurance or overthinking will every be good enough for it.

OCD is loud, and really bad at boundaries, It tries to convince you to listen to it, as if it was in control of your life.

But here’s the good news:

You don’t have to fight your thoughts or prove anything to OCD.

You don’t have to live your life according to its never-ending checklist.

You can learn to sit with the fear, stop playing its game, and start spending your time and energy on what actually matters to you.

You’re not crazy or a hysterical mess or broken.

You’re just stuck in a cycle of OCD doubt and haven’t had the OCD treatment you needed to break the cycle.

We use scientifically supported OCD treatment techniques and warm non-judgmental support (sometimes combined with good-natured humor) to help you get your piece of mind back.

What specific approaches do we use?

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is the gold standard of research supported obsessive cimpulsive disorder treatment.

We got that covered!

ERP involves systematically facing OCD fears and ignoring the doubt that tells you to recheck, rethink or correct yourself…

Of course you’ve tried that already- sort of…

But study after study shows that approaching it in a step-by-step systematic way with the support of a supportive therapist is dramatically more effective than white knuckling it on your own. We tackle OCD as a team, working our way with you through intrusive thoughts and compulsions, practicing guided exposure exercises and strategies alongside of you to make it finally work!

Unlike most therapy offices, we have lots of experience mixing ERP with other cutting edge modalities including:

• EMDR

• ACT

• EFT tapping

• Neurofeedback

• Guided imagery and imaginal exposure

• In between sessions coaching from staff

• Recommendations for research supported supplements to help your brain feel less “sticky” and regulate anxiety

  These add on approaches compliment ERP to make our OCD therapy even more effective.