Unconditional support and expert guidance in overcoming OCD.

OCD Treatment For Adolescents & Adults in Minneapolis - Saint Paul, Minnesota, Texas, & Wisconsin with a therapist who lived with and overcame OCD.

You keep having thoughts you don’t like. You can’t make them go away. They make you feel anxious.

These intrusive thoughts and anxious feelings hurt. They make it hard to live your life.

Some behaviors make the thoughts and feelings go away. But only for a little while.

Then another intrusive thought shows up.

This cycle leaves you feeling afraid, frustrated, and isolated.

You wonder:
“Will I be stuck here forever?”

If any of this sounds familiar, then you're likely experiencing symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

You’re not alone. Millions of people feel like you. Millions of people have OCD.

OCD almost never goes away on its own. But OCD can be overcome.
I can show you the way.

 

How do I know this?

Because I lived with and overcame OCD.

I hope you’ll let me be your OCD guide:

So, how do you overcome OCD?

Here are the basics:

  • Our first step is understanding what OCD is, what causes it, and how it works. This includes seeing why your attempts to feel better haven’t helped.

  • Next is learning about the new skills that will work for you. Learning these skills includes a detailed review of what the skills are, how they work, and how to use them.

  • Third, we'll practice your new skills. Like any skill, it takes practice to master managing OCD. I’ll be there to guide and support you, step-by-step, throughout the process (you can learn more about these skills by clicking here).

As you master your skills, you’ll experience far less intrusive thoughts. And if your intrusive thoughts show up, you'll be confident that you know exactly what to do to expertly manage them. Less anxiety. Less compulsions. More freedom.


Your next step is quick:

Click the “Schedule Free Consultation” button. Your consultation helps me better understand your OCD experiences, gives us a chance to interact and see if I’m a good fit for you, and provides you with an opportunity to ask questions and learn more.

This consultation can begin a process that will transform your life.

 If you think you might have OCD but aren’t sure, ask yourself:

    • Something terrible is about to happen?

    • I contract a serious or deadly germ from the environment?

    • I get contaminated with a chemical?

    • I hit someone with my car without knowing it?

    • I’m a pedophile?

    • What if I molest a child?

    • What if I somehow cause someone else harm?

    • What if the door is unlocked?

    • What if the stove is on?

    • What if I do something sinful and go to hell?

    • What if I didn’t understand what I just read?

    • What if I stab someone?

    • What if I jump off a bridge?

    • What if I’m not in the right relationship and miss out?

    • What if these items aren’t properly arranged?

    • What if I don’t do something just right and it causes something bad to happen to me or my family?

    • What if I’m gay and I don’t know it?

    • What if I can’t stop thinking this thought?

    • What if I can’t trust my memory?

    • What if I can’t stop having this feeling?

    • What if I can’t be certain?

    • Trying to get certain thoughts out of your mind?

    • Attempting to get rid of particular feelings?

    • Wishing you could better control your thoughts?

    • Checking over and over to make sure you didn’t make a mistake?

    • Trying to do something perfectly or to get things to feel “complete” or “just right”?

    • Spending lots of time (even hours) doing the same thing over and over?

    • Knowing other people might find your behaviors unusual but feel you need to complete your behaviors anyways?

    • Avoiding people, places, or things that most people don’t?

    • Asking for reassurance from others in order to feel better?

    • Constantly attempting to be 100% certain about things?

    • Consistently trying to control your anxiety as much as you can?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you might be experiencing symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

If you’ve been previously diagnosed with OCD but haven’t experienced the relief you want, it’s helpful to know that many experiencing OCD have been in treatment(s) and haven’t had the improvement their hoping for.

In this case, we’ll review what has and hasn’t worked so we can make the treatment adjustments needed to reduce and control your intrusive thoughts, anxiety, and compulsive behaviors.

Most veterans of OCD treatment know the basics: “I’m not supposed to try and control intrusive thoughts. Thought suppression doesn’t work. I’m not supposed to compulsively behave. I need to do more exposures.”

Many experiencing OCD have practiced accepting intrusive thoughts, resisting compulsive impulses, and participating in exposure after exposure, only to not feel much better (or even feel worse).

I’ve been there.

In fact, I was ten years and well into double-digits of the mental health professional I’d worked with before I achieved remission.

And that’s because overcoming OCD isn’t just about participating in ERP.

It’s also about meaning, purpose, and bravery.

The tough truth is, trying your best to overcome OCD is a risk. No one — not you, me, or any other mental health professional — can 100% guarantee recovery. On the other hand, not challenging your OCD is a huge risk too. Think of how much OCD has already taken from you.

As you can imagine, in our work together, we’ll almost certainly use ERP (ERP is the gold-standard of OCD treatment for a reason).

But research advances have found that adding key elements to ERP treatment improves ERP outcomes.

So we’ll also be taking a step back and integrating these new elements. We’ll explore what you want your life to mean, how you want to confront your OCD (and the “dangers” your OCD tells you are looming), and, perhaps most importantly:

How come you might be willing to take the risks involved in undergoing personal transformation?

I believe everyone has the right to and can live free from OCD. I’ll support you in transitioning from giving in to intrusive thoughts and compulsive impulses to bravely challenging them, for the sake of your life and those that you love.