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Therapy for OCD in Little Rock and online across Arkansas

OCD is starting to take over everything…

  • Logically, you know the fear that your food is contaminated is probably irrational...

    but you’ve started eating dinner by yourself in the kitchen. OCD says you might have poisoned your family by giving them contaminated food, and you can’t bear to watch them eat.

  • Work used to be fulfilling, but lately it’s been suffering...

    …and not just because you were late seven times last month because OCD had you go back home to make sure the garage door was truly closed. Intrusive thoughts are making it hard to concentrate for more than a few minutes at a time.

  • You’ve been agonizing over whether to turn yourself in to the police...

    …even though you have no attraction to children and no desire to harm them, OCD has you convinced that you could become a pedophile. You might wonder whether it’s safe to keep your teaching job, or even spend time with your own kid.

  • There’s no free time to spend on your hobbies, or with your friends...

    …as soon as you get home, you’re locked into your phone for 1-2 hours reviewing texts and emails to make sure you didn’t offend someone today. OCD is positive you probably did, and you need to figure out what to apologize for.

These anxious obsessions (and their compulsions) are taking up too much of your time and energy.

Worries about germs & contamination, about burning the house down, whether or not you offended a coworker today, whether you just ran over a pedestrian on your drive home, whether your loving spouse is cheating…

These fears feel so real and important, and you’re afraid it might mean something terrible- maybe you’re actually a bad person, or aren’t truly capable of handling stress, or you’re just pretending to love your kids.

That’s a lot of maybes, what-ifs, and whether-or-nots. You know it’s irrational, but you must DO something to feel better, to feel just-right.

  • washing your hands until they’re cracked and bleeding
  • checking and re-(re-)checking that all the switches are off and electronics unplugged
  • mentally rehashing conversations and checking emails to make sure you weren’t accidentally rude
  • driving back around the block to make sure that bump in the road wasn’t a person

Or, perhaps instead of jumping through a million re-checking hoops, you’ve started to just avoid everything.

You figure if you’re not around it, it can’t bother you. This might have felt good for a while, like you’ve sort of beat the compulsions. If you don’t visit your nieces and nephews, you can’t lose your mind and hurt them. If you just have your friend drive, you can’t suddenly decide to run the car off the road. If you only use plastic utensils, you won’t lose your mind and stab someone with a real knife.

But you’re realizing that your world is getting smaller. Getting rid of triggers has turned into missing of a lot of fun and important things in your life.

You can drop the fight with OCD, and start winning some battles for real.

Imagine…

  • Cooking chicken for your family without fear, washing your hands, and enjoying dinner.

  • Seeing a news story about a house fire, and then just...watching the rest of the nightly news. No urges to get up and re-check outlets and electronics.

  • Noticing a thought like "what if I‘m a killer and just haven’t killed yet?" - and just rolling your eyes at OCD, unbothered- and back to your book.

  • Spending quality time with your partner and kids, actually feeling present with them, and making fun memories.

  • Doing a standard amount of cleaning and then enjoying the rest of your weekend.

Therapy for OCD can help you learn to…

  • Recognize the OCD cycle and…
  • Opt out of it
  • Identify and stop falling for OCD’s tricks
  • Regain trust in your senses, in the moment, without being sucked into OCD’s fears
  • Feel connected to your family, friends, and yourself
  • Experience firsthand how anxiety can go down on its own, and you can handle it

How does OCD therapy help?

I’m trained in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (ICBT). Both are evidence-based methods for treating OCD. We can discuss both and decide which you’d like to try first.

  • ERP uses exposures to your triggers while you prevent yourself from doing compulsions. This helps your brain learn that anxiety goes down on its own, without doing compulsions. You can learn more about how ERP works by clicking here.
  • ICBT teaches you how to identify the process that creates “obsessional doubt” and generates the anxiety that makes you want to do compulsions. Learn more about ICBT here.

It‘s possible to break OCD’s spell. Let’s get started.

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Specializing in helping high-functioning, stressed-out women who are tired of fighting their emotions & constant overthinking, reclaim their time & brain space, and get back to enjoying life.

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