Services
About My Clients
Kelsi specializes in evidence-based Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) treatment including Perfectionism, Contamination, Just Right, Scrupulosity/Morality, Health, P-OCD, Harm/Violent intrusive thoughts, and Sexual Obsessions. She also treats Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders (PANDAS / PANS) as well as Phobias, Generalized Anxiety, and Social Anxiety. Ages seen: Children 5-7 for predominantly parent coaching; Children 8+, teens & adults for individual and/or family therapy.
My Background and Approach
She currently works at BASE Cognitive Behavioral (www.findyourbase.com) in Charlotte, North Carolina specializing in the treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Anxiety Related Disorders. Kelsi has over 10 years of experience providing Exposure and Response Prevention treatment, the gold standard treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. She previously served as the Program Supervisor of The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Pediatric OCD Intensive Outpatient Programs and Pediatric OCD Outpatient Clinic. She has attended IOCDF’s Behavior Therapy Training Institute and trained under leading experts in the field including members of the IOCDF Scientific Board and top Physicians in the treatment of Pediatric OCD & PANDAS/PANS.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
It takes bravery to tackle this work, and I am incredibly lucky to get to walk alongside my clients in this journey. ERP treatment moves at the client’s pace to intentionally face uncomfortable thoughts and feelings while rewiring the responses within the brain. Together we tackle these scary or uncomfortable feelings by creating experiments to decrease the fear response. The end result: increased relief from anxiety and greater self confidence.