Therapy Services for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Are you tired of OCD taking over your life? Are you looking for tools to control your anxiety and begin living a more vibrant and fluid life? You have arrived at the right place. Here at the Center for OCD we provide the highest quality therapy anxiety and obsessive-compulsive related struggles.

With us you can make the next chapter of your story marked by courage-not avoidance, flexibility-not rigidity, deeper interpersonal connections, and inner calmness. Let us partner with you to begin your healing process.

Therapy Should Be Personalized and Effective:

Individualized Care – There is only one YOU which means that your OCD has its own unique way of manifesting. Effective OCD treatment requires that we custom tailor the treatment to who you are and your own needs. We go at your pace.

Education – In order to overcome OCD, it is crucial to be fully educated about OCD and how the treatment works. Our aim is for you to be knowledgeable enough that you will essentially become your own therapist.

Cutting-edge Treatment – Overcoming OCD requires razor-sharp precision in the application of exposure and response prevention (ERP). You can expect us to conduct a deep and thorough assessment of your OCD, and any other related issues that will also need to be addressed in your recovery.

Overcome Treatment Obstacles – It is common for people to have tried to overcome OCD without success. It could have been with a therapist or a self-help book. There are many reasons why this could happen. This does not mean you are not treatable—it means we have to identify and overcome the obstacles interfering with treatment to create the proper conditions for ERP to be effective. For example, certain personality features can diminish the efficacy of the treatment and thus need to be addressed. 

What Exactly is OCD?

OCD occurs when unwanted thoughts or images make you very anxious and lead you to engage in certain acts (behavioral or mental) to reduce the anxiety. The acts are called compulsions, or rituals, and are often repetitive and difficult to stop doing. OCD causes dysfunction to everyday living when a significant amount of time is used to engage in rituals and avoidance of OCD-triggering people, places, and things. While OCD is often depicted in the popular media as certain stereotypes of behaviors (such as excessive hand-washing) it is really way more that. As you will see below, we touch on only some of the forms of OCD that are out there. There are so many different manifestations of OCD. OCD can be incredibly debilitating, and luckily, with an expert therapist, you can see a your life change in a very significant way.

We treat all forms of OCD, including:

Contamination OCD – fears about getting sick from a wide range of contagions

• Disgust OCD – a deep aversion of coming in contact with anyathing that is viewed as “disgusting”

• Responsibility OCD – fear of contracting and passing a disease to others 

Pure-O OCD – intrusive thoughts with only mental rituals 

Harm OCD – fears about harming others

• Postpartum OCD – fear of harming a newborn infant

• Fear of harming a child or a loved one

• Fear of committing suicide

• Hit-and-run OCD – fear of possibly harming someone while driving

Relationship OCD (ROCD) obsessive concerns about being in the wrong relationship

• Fear of being married to the wrong person

• Fear of dating the wrong person 

Scrupulosity (Religious OCD) fears regarding religious and moral domains

• Fear of sinning

Pedophilia OCD (POCD) – fears about being a child molester

• Fears of having conducted acts of pedophilia in the past

• Fears of possible acts of pedophilia occurring in the future

• Intrusive thoughts about taboo and forbidden relationships 

Experiential OCD – obsessions with philosophical questions and not knowing reality

• Fear of never living life in accordance with Truth

Sexual Orientation OCD – obsessive concerns about possibly having a different sexual identity

• Homosexual OCD (HOCD) – fear of changing your sexual orientation

• Fear of being/becoming transgender 

“Just Right” OCD – chronic need for absolute order, symmetry, and cleanliness

• Difficulty completing tasks until they feel “just right”

• Difficulty tolerating anything not in its “correct” place

• Need clothing to fit “exactly right” 

Racism OCD – fears about being a racist    

• Fear of yelling racial epithets in public  

• Fear of writing racially charged comments in a public forum

Mental Illness OCD – fears about becoming severely mentally ill

• Fear of developing schizophrenia

• Fear of developing bi-polar disorder 

Grief OCD – concerns about grieving the “right way”