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What if I will never be happy?
What if someone breaks into my house?
Will people think I’m crazy?
Will I ever feel safe?
What if I make the wrong decision and it will haunt me for the rest of my life?
What if I am a terrible mother?
Do these thoughts get in the way of living your life? Do they get so loud and sticky that you feel compelled to do certain tasks over and over again until you’re run down because the alternative is a catastrophic?
That’s no way to live. In fact, having these thoughts and doing specific things to quiet them can be so exhausting and overwhelming that you cannot connect with your loved ones, focus on your work, household chores, or do the things you used to enjoy — in other words – living.
As someone who also suffers from an OCD spectrum condition, I have an in-depth understanding of your unique mind and challenges. I will give you a space in which you will not have to explain why you do the things you do and help you understand how to work with your brain. Extensively trained in exposure response prevention, an anxiety treatment, at the University of Pennsylvania and Behavior Training Institute (BTTI), I will teach you the skills to manage ruminations and decrease the crippling anxiety so you can be present for what matters.
What Sets Me Apart
Besides exposure response prevention (ERP), I've also received intense training in other therapy interventions that help support ERP and provide a more holistic approach to OCD clients:
Dialectical behavior therapy 🧘♀️ - focuses on emotion regulation and provides tools to ride the emotional waves of OCD episodes and other emotions like shame and guilt that come with it
Acceptance commitment therapy 💭 - helps OCD sufferers unstick from those scary thoughts and teaches skills to be present and focus on doing what matters
Cognitive behavior therapy 💬 - identifies negative thought patterns and beliefs that OCD uses as fuel. E.g. believing I’m not good enough will cause the OCD to obsess over making the right decisions or doing things over and over until it ‘feels right’
Compassion focused therapy ❤️ - OCD sufferers are often their own worst critic which in turn makes OCD stronger. This therapy method teaches you to regulate from persistent shame, silence the inner critic, and focus on self-love
Neuroscience 🧠 - helps you understand and work with your unique brains
Understanding of how OCD can co-occur with ADHD 📌 - I also help support client who suffer from these dual diagnosis. As somebody has experienced how these two conditions interact with each other, I provide treatment that helps identify which one is the root cause, differentiate their symptoms and how they are interacting with each other so we are able to treat both.To learn more about ADHD, click here.