We can help you face the things that make you feel anxious, notice your thoughts without reacting to them, and focus on your values and goals in life. We can help you find ways to manage your thoughts and behaviors so OCD doesn't control your life by facing your fears, challenging negative thoughts, and improving your overall well being.
We can gradually expose you to feared situations so it doesn’t have to feel so overwhelming. We can also help you learn how to resist the urge to engage in compulsive behaviors.
We can target anxiety, develop coping skills, and reduce the overall impact OCD has on your day to day life. We can help you get control over your obsessions and compulsions, find healthier ways to cope, and improve your quality of life.
We can help you get control over your obsessions and compulsions, find healthier ways to cope, and improve your quality of life.
Do you have intrusive thoughts without compulsions? If yes, then you may have what's called Pure O OCD. Pure O OCD is when someone has obsessions and intrusive thoughts without compulsions. Your struggle is valid, and I'm here to help you reframe your thoughts and recognize that a thought really is just a thought.
Change is possible. I'm here to help you overcome your fears so compulsions don't feel like your only option. We can provide you with structured techniques to reduce symptoms of OCD. You can learn how to confront your obsessive, intrusive thoughts and resist the urge to engage in compulsive behaviors.
Together, we can help you engage in gradual exposure to the situations that cause you fear and anxiety, which can help you challenge and reframe irrational thoughts and beliefs while learning different ways to cope, so you don’t have to feel trapped in your OCD.
We can target the thoughts and behaviors associated with OCD so you can take back control of your life, improve your physical, mental, and emotional well being, and make it easier to manage day to day.
We'll create a hierarchy of your fears and compulsions and work through them step by step, so you can face your fears grdually and not have to feel overwhelmed by facing them all at once. Using exposure, we'll face each of your fears one at a time
Using CBT and fact checking, we can work on challenging and reframing negative thoughts and testing core beliefs you have about yourself and the world, so that you can develop a more positive, realistic view of yourself and others.
We can explore root causes contributing to the onset of the OCD and discuss underlying factors inclyding traum, anxiety, and perfectionism leading you to live a more satisfying life.
I'll be here to support you as we work through each exposure and reframe your thoughts into a more realistic view. You don't have to face this alone.
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