Anxiety and OCD Treatment in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Florida
I offer a menu of different treatment options to get you out of your head and into your life!
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Areas of Practice
Understanding Your Thoughts (Inference-based CBT or ICBT)
This approach helps you recognize how OCD tricks you into believing things that aren’t actually based in the here and now. Your imagination has become louder and more present than the real world. I-CBT teaches you that all obsessional doubts - those what if questions that keep your life limited - are categorically false from the get-go. That’s a really big statement, I know! This approach helps you to understand that these scary thoughts are just your imagination in overdrive. Once you begin to fully understand this insight, you feel less of a need to perform the repetitive behaviors (compulsions) that have been limiting your day-to-day life. This approach has no exposures, and relies on understanding how a dysfunctional reasoning process has lead you to treat what is only an imagined hypothetical as a valid probability in the here and now. When you can fully see how the obsession was created, and understand why it’s false, the magic of the OCD is lost.
Facing Your Fears on Your Terms (Exposure Response Prevention or ERP):
This method involves confronting the situations that trigger your OCD anxiety, while learning to resist the urge to perform your usual coping behaviors. It’s like building up immunity - the more you practice facing these situations without giving in to compulsions, the less power they have over you. This process is always tailored to what matters most to you in life, and you’ll never be pushed into extreme or overwhelming situations.
Changing How You Think About Worry (Metacognitive Therapy)
Most people confuse their worry with an effective problem-solving strategy When this happens they believe worrying helps them prepare for problems or keep bad things from happening. This therapy shows you that worrying is actually optional, and a choice whether to engage in it or redirect your time and attention to other things you can influence! This focused approach can help with anxiety, trauma, and depression. Metacognitive sessions are very structured and focus on changing your beliefs that your worry is helpful, while giving you a skillset that helps you relate to distressing thoughts in a neutral way.