Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Personalized Treatment Plan –

Education –

Up-to-Date Treatment Methods –

Overcoming 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. 


OCD can affect one of more area of you life. Some of the most common OCD “themes” are listed below, but OCD can attach itself to almost anything. The themes your OCD affects can persist or change throughout your lifetime.

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 

Order & Symmetry -

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

Scrupulosity (Religious / Moral OCD) fears regarding religious and moral domains

  • Fear of sinning

Sexuality OCD

Pedophilia OCD – 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 

“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”