OCD and Exposure Therapy
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD, involves having obsessive thinking patterns that can include unwanted thoughts, images, or urges that make a person feel anxious or distressed.
Individuals who have OCD often have significant difficulty pushing away or ignoring these thoughts. Those with OCD also have compulsive behaviors, which are an attempt to reverse the obsessive thoughts or urges by performing some sort of action, which also can include mental compulsions (such as mental checking, ruminating, overthinking in our mind, etc).
Common signs, according to the Mayo Clinic, of OCD are: Often, these are the symptoms of anxiety:
Intrusive thoughts
Constantly seeking reassurance
The repeated cleaning of one or more items
Perfectionism
Fear of contamination
Thoughts that you might be harmed
Thoughts that you might cause others harm
Overthinking decisions
At Choice Point Counseling, our team of expert psychotherapists specializes in treating OCD using effective methods like Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (ICBT). We work closely with each client to create personalized strategies for long-term success.