Approaches Designed to Help and Heal
Evidence-based, Gold Standard Treatment for OCD, Anxiety, and BFRB’s.
Outcome-Focused, Compassionate Anxiety Treatment
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT helps clients to identify and work to change unhelpful thinking patterns that tend to keep them “stuck” and explore the way thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected and how they have the power to change unhealthy patterns into healthy ones. Coping skills and confidence are developed to assist in achieving treatment goals. CBT is empirically-based and has high levels of success in treating OCD, Anxiety, and BFRB’s.
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
ERP is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that provides opportunities for clients to face the things and situations they fear and gradually become desensitized, leading to less anxiety and more freedom. ERP and any therapeutic exposure exercises are always done at the comfort level of the client, as the client is the expert in themself and knows what pace works best for them. Exposure exercises can be practiced in therapy as well as in between sessions. Exposure therapies, including ERP, are highly effective and can provide clients with effects that are lasting.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy guides clients to discover what is truly important to them in their life and then take action towards living life in ways that they find deeply meaningful. The acceptance component of ACT emphasizes a non-judgmental approach to the way people experience their thoughts and feelings and encourages purposeful living, even in the face of challenges. In essence, even if you are struggling, ACT provides hope, clarity, and a compassionate path towards healing.
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.