Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT/ERP) for OCD and Anxiety
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) involving Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is a highly effective, evidence-based approach for treating anxiety-related disorders including OCD. It is practical, focused, and designed to help you make meaningful changes in how you think, respond, and live.
In our work together, I take a collaborative, results-oriented approach. I will listen carefully to your experience, identify the patterns that keep anxiety going, and teach you proven strategies to break those cycles. The goal is not just symptom relief—but helping you regain confidence, independence, and control over your life.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
For more than 30 years, I have specialized in treating OCD and helping individuals overcome intrusive thoughts, anxiety, and compulsive behaviors. Treatment is based on Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)—the gold-standard, evidence-based intervention for OCD. I will guide and coach you through systematically approaching and engaging with feared situations while resisting compulsions, allowing your brain to learn that anxiety diminishes on its own and that uncertainty, doubt, and intrusive thoughts are safe and manageable. Because OCD often affects relationships, we may also involve family members or partners when helpful. This ensures you have the support needed to sustain progress and prevent relapse.
Panic Attacks and Agoraphobia
Panic can feel overwhelming, and the natural instinct is to avoid or escape it. Unfortunately, those strategies tend to make panic stronger over time.
CBT helps you reverse this cycle. You will learn—through direct experience—that panic symptoms are uncomfortable but not dangerous. Together, we will build your ability to respond to these sensations without avoidance, so you can move freely through your life again.
Social Anxiety
Social anxiety often creates a persistent fear of judgment, embarrassment, or rejection. It can limit your ability to connect with others and fully engage in important areas of life. In treatment, you will learn to approach social situations in new ways and to relate differently to anxious thoughts. Rather than trying to eliminate anxiety, we focus on reducing its impact so you can participate more fully, confidently, and authentically.
Specific Phobias
Fears of situations such as flying, heights, storms, animals, or enclosed spaces can become highly restrictive when avoided.
CBT provides a structured and supportive way to approach these fears gradually and effectively. As you engage with what you’ve been avoiding, you will learn that these situations are far more manageable than they feel, allowing you to reclaim parts of your life that fear has limited.
Health Anxiety
Health anxiety can become all-consuming, especially when your mind is constantly scanning for signs of illness or seeking reassurance.
This is not simply “overthinking”—it’s a pattern that can be changed. CBT helps you step out of cycles of worry, checking, and reassurance-seeking, and develop a more balanced and sustainable way of responding to uncertainty about your health.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
When worry becomes constant, it can feel like your mind is always anticipating the worst. CBT helps you change your relationship with worry. Instead of getting pulled into endless “what if” thinking, you will learn strategies to disengage from unproductive worry and refocus on what matters. This creates more mental space, clarity, and control in your daily life.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Trauma can leave you feeling unsafe, on edge, and disconnected from your life. Treatment focuses on helping you process these experiences in a structured, evidence-based way so they no longer control how you think, feel, and respond. At your pace, we will work toward restoring a sense of safety, stability, and engagement with the world around you.
In our work together, I take a collaborative, results-oriented approach. I will listen carefully to your experience, identify the patterns that keep anxiety going, and teach you proven strategies to break those cycles. The goal is not just symptom relief—but helping you regain confidence, independence, and control over your life.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
For more than 30 years, I have specialized in treating OCD and helping individuals overcome intrusive thoughts, anxiety, and compulsive behaviors. Treatment is based on Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)—the gold-standard, evidence-based intervention for OCD. I will guide and coach you through systematically approaching and engaging with feared situations while resisting compulsions, allowing your brain to learn that anxiety diminishes on its own and that uncertainty, doubt, and intrusive thoughts are safe and manageable. Because OCD often affects relationships, we may also involve family members or partners when helpful. This ensures you have the support needed to sustain progress and prevent relapse.
Panic Attacks and Agoraphobia
Panic can feel overwhelming, and the natural instinct is to avoid or escape it. Unfortunately, those strategies tend to make panic stronger over time.
CBT helps you reverse this cycle. You will learn—through direct experience—that panic symptoms are uncomfortable but not dangerous. Together, we will build your ability to respond to these sensations without avoidance, so you can move freely through your life again.
Social Anxiety
Social anxiety often creates a persistent fear of judgment, embarrassment, or rejection. It can limit your ability to connect with others and fully engage in important areas of life. In treatment, you will learn to approach social situations in new ways and to relate differently to anxious thoughts. Rather than trying to eliminate anxiety, we focus on reducing its impact so you can participate more fully, confidently, and authentically.
Specific Phobias
Fears of situations such as flying, heights, storms, animals, or enclosed spaces can become highly restrictive when avoided.
CBT provides a structured and supportive way to approach these fears gradually and effectively. As you engage with what you’ve been avoiding, you will learn that these situations are far more manageable than they feel, allowing you to reclaim parts of your life that fear has limited.
Health Anxiety
Health anxiety can become all-consuming, especially when your mind is constantly scanning for signs of illness or seeking reassurance.
This is not simply “overthinking”—it’s a pattern that can be changed. CBT helps you step out of cycles of worry, checking, and reassurance-seeking, and develop a more balanced and sustainable way of responding to uncertainty about your health.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
When worry becomes constant, it can feel like your mind is always anticipating the worst. CBT helps you change your relationship with worry. Instead of getting pulled into endless “what if” thinking, you will learn strategies to disengage from unproductive worry and refocus on what matters. This creates more mental space, clarity, and control in your daily life.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Trauma can leave you feeling unsafe, on edge, and disconnected from your life. Treatment focuses on helping you process these experiences in a structured, evidence-based way so they no longer control how you think, feel, and respond. At your pace, we will work toward restoring a sense of safety, stability, and engagement with the world around you.
