OCD Treatment

When your brain demands certainty, nothing ever feels certain enough.

OCD can make you question the things that matter most to you, your relationships, safety, health, morality, identity, or even who you are. It isn't simply being neat, organized, or particular. OCD is a cycle of intrusive thoughts, doubt, anxiety, and compulsions that can gradually take up more and more of your life.

The thoughts may feel frightening, disturbing, embarrassing, or completely unlike you. The more you try to prove them wrong, seek reassurance, avoid triggers, or finally feel certain, the more stuck you can become.

OCD is highly treatable, and treatment should actually understand OCD.

OCD Doesn't Always Look the Way People Think It Does

OCD can involve contamination fears, checking, reassurance seeking, mental reviewing, repeating, avoidance, confessing, researching, or needing things to feel “just right.”

It can also center around deeply personal themes, including harm, relationships, morality or religion, sexual themes, identity, health, pregnancy or postpartum fears, and other unwanted intrusive thoughts.

Some compulsions are obvious. Others happen almost entirely inside your head, and you may have been doing them for so long that you don't even recognize them as compulsions anymore.

You are not your intrusive thoughts.

Our Approach

Our clinicians provide OCD assessment, evaluation, and diagnosis to understand your symptoms, identify obsessions and compulsions, and distinguish OCD from other concerns that may look similar. From there, we develop an individualized treatment plan based on your needs and goals.

OCD needs more than reassurance and traditional talk therapy.

Our OCD therapists receive specialized training, ongoing consultation, and supervision in OCD-specific treatment.We understand that reassurance, analyzing intrusive thoughts, and trying to eliminate uncertainty can actually strengthen the OCD cycle.

Treatment may incorporate:

Exposure & Response Prevention (ERP) helps you face fears and uncertainty while reducing the compulsions that keep OCD going.

Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT) helps you recognize when OCD pulls you away from what you know and into imagined possibilities and doubt.

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps you respond differently to uncomfortable thoughts and feelings while making choices based on what matters to you.