If your mind feels like it’s holding you hostage
OCD is so much more than being tidy or liking things “just right.” It’s the relentless loop of intrusive thoughts, the gnawing doubt, the urge to check, count, reassure, avoid, or mentally review — anything to make the anxiety stop, even though the relief never lasts. It can attach to your health, your relationships, your morality, harm, contamination, or things you can barely say out loud.
If you’re reading this thinking “no one would understand the thoughts I have” — I want you to know they’re more common than you think, and they are treatable.
Two evidence-based approaches, tailored to you
Not everyone responds to OCD treatment the same way, so I’m trained in two of the most effective approaches and we choose what fits you best — sometimes drawing on both.
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is the long-standing gold-standard treatment. Rather than fighting or suppressing intrusive thoughts, ERP gently helps you build tolerance for uncertainty and discomfort so compulsions lose their grip.
Inference-Based CBT (I-CBT) is a newer, powerful approach that works differently. Instead of exposure, I-CBT focuses on understanding how OCD doubt gets created in the first place — the faulty reasoning that makes an improbable “what if” feel completely real — and helps you reconnect with your own trustworthy perception of reality. Many clients who’ve found ERP overwhelming, or who struggle with largely mental or covert compulsions, find I-CBT especially freeing.
We’ll figure out together which path fits you. This is collaborative work, and I never push faster than you’re ready for.
I can help with OCD that shows up as:
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Contamination and health-related fears
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Harm, “what if,” and intrusive violent thoughts
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Relationship OCD (ROCD)
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Scrupulosity (moral or religious obsessions)
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“Just right” and symmetry compulsions
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Checking, reassurance-seeking, and mental review
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Perinatal OCD
You don’t have to keep living at the mercy of your thoughts.
Reaching out is the first exposure — and one of the bravest. When you’re ready, I’m here.