Therapy for rumination, OCD, and anxiety
Rumination can feel like trying to solve the same question over and over. For some people with OCD, reviewing a thought in search of certainty becomes a compulsion. If you are looking for a therapist to help with rumination, we can start with a moment when you got stuck and look at what keeps the loop going. I also work with health anxiety and anxiety or OCD affecting dating and relationships.
I also specialize in complex OCD. When OCD overlaps with other diagnoses, I work to clarify how they interact and adapt treatment accordingly, collaborating with psychiatric care when helpful.
Exposure and response prevention (ERP)
I specialize in OCD treatment. In ERP, we plan exposures together, starting with a situation that matters to you. You practice facing what brings up obsessions and letting the urge to do a compulsion pass. Our goal is to reduce the impact of OCD symptoms so you have more room for everyday life.
A plan we shape together
From our first meeting, we focus on what is troubling you and the changes you want to make. If you have been in therapy before, we explore the approaches and skills you have tried, what helped, and what still feels missing.
Together, we develop a clear treatment plan and discuss how it connects to your goals. Our work combines understanding how anxiety works with practical skills and practice between sessions.
I welcome honest feedback about what is useful, what isn’t, and what you need more or less of. We regularly review symptoms, distress, and quality of life—including whether our work and practice between sessions are translating into meaningful changes in daily life. We refine the plan together as we learn what helps. There is room to talk things through while keeping the work purposeful.
Care for the whole picture
When anxiety or OCD comes with depression, relationship strain, or emotions that feel hard to manage, we address those concerns together. For emotion dysregulation, I may draw on mindfulness and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills to help you notice a feeling, tolerate distress, and choose how to respond.
Practical support for daily life
Our work can be practical. We can work together on habits, routines, and organizing daily life when stress or intrusive thoughts make these harder to manage.
Involving your support network
With your permission, people you choose can be included in treatment to better understand what you’re experiencing and learn how to support progress without reinforcing anxiety or OCD.