Services
- Individual
About My Clients
In treatment, we will work together to understand that OCD can throw any instrusive thought your way and these thoughts have ZERO meaning about who you are or your values.. A thought is just that a thought. It is nothing more or less. OCD will make you think otherwise. Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) I have extensive experience with OCD treatment and anxiety disorders. We will work together to identify your fears/thoughts and learn that we dont have to try to change you
My Background and Approach
I have been a therapist for almost 10 years and have worked with a wide range of issues, and diverse people. I look at my clients as individuals not a cluster of symptoms. Your entire lives experience has brought you to where you are now and I want to honor that anxiety or another issue does NOT present the same in everyone. We each have very individualized lives that need to be acknowledged. Together we will create a treatment plan that matches the entire you not just your symptoms.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe that we all need and want to be heard, acknowledged and to know that your feelings, emotions and thoughts are part of you but they aren't always apart of your values. We all have intrusive thoughts as humans that can be disturbing, destabilizing. As humans our brains try to keep us "safe" by using defense mechanisms such as avoidance (sleeping isolating, distracting) or feeling we have to ask others for reassurance over and over as examples to keep us "safe". While these mechanisms work in the short term, they don't work in the long term for anxiety and OCD. We will learn that we can sit with uncomfortable feelings without avoiding and that feelings are NOT facts nor are thoughts they are just terrible to feel. And you can handle discomfort it does not mean something awful will happen. We we will together gradually to sit in uncomfortable feelings that anxiety and OCD prevent you from feeling but fuel the disorder all together.