Tryphtin Scott

Trauma can leave past experiences feeling present long after the danger has passed. You may notice intrusive memories, avoidance, hypervigilance, emotional numbness, shame, or changes in how you relate to yourself and others. I help clients understand these responses and process experiences that continue to affect daily life. My trauma work may include EMDR when appropriate, alongside practical strategies for regulation, coping, and rebuilding a sense of safety.

OCD can create a relentless cycle of intrusive thoughts, uncertainty, anxiety, and attempts to find relief through compulsions, checking, avoidance, or reassurance. I use Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), an evidence based treatment for OCD, to help clients change their relationship with uncertainty and resist compulsive responses. I also work with specific OCD presentations, including religious and moral scrupulosity, contamination fears, and harm related obsessions.

Addiction can gradually narrow your life around a substance or behavior, even when you genuinely want things to change. I work with clients to understand triggers, patterns, consequences, and the needs that addictive behavior may have come to serve. Treatment may involve strengthening recovery supports, developing accountability, addressing shame, rebuilding relationships, and learning new ways to respond to difficult emotions. I also specialize in pornography and other unwanted sexual behaviors

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the connections between thoughts, emotions, and behavior. I use CBT to help clients identify patterns that may be keeping a problem in place and develop more useful ways of responding. Depending on your goals, this may involve examining beliefs, changing behavioral patterns, practicing new skills, or testing assumptions through experience. CBT provides a practical framework while allowing treatment to remain specific to you.

I use Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to treat OCD and related patterns of avoidance and compulsive behavior. ERP involves gradually facing feared thoughts, situations, or uncertainty while reducing the compulsions normally used to find relief. Treatment is collaborative and paced intentionally. The goal is not to eliminate unwanted thoughts or achieve certainty, but to help you respond differently so OCD has less influence over how you live.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence based approach used to address trauma and distressing experiences that continue to affect the present. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation while working with memories, emotions, beliefs, and physical sensations connected to difficult experiences. When appropriate, I use EMDR to help clients process experiences that feel stuck so they become less emotionally intense and have less influence on present life.