What I Can Help With
Therapy isn't one-size-fits-all. I specialize in helping adults navigate OCD, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and patterns of avoidance and overthinking using evidence-based approaches including Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
Anxiety & Overthinking
Anxiety can keep you caught in cycles of worry, analysis, avoidance, and trying to prevent everything that could go wrong. You may spend hours trying to solve problems that don't have definitive answers or seeking reassurance that you're making the "right" choice.
Together, we'll work on changing your relationship with anxiety rather than organizing your life around getting rid of it. ACT and exposure-based approaches can help you make room for uncomfortable thoughts and feelings while moving toward what actually matters to you.
OCD & Intrusive Thoughts
OCD isn't always about visible rituals or behaviors. It can show up as relentless doubt, mental reviewing, reassurance seeking, checking, rumination, or a constant need to feel certain or "just right." You may know your thoughts don't make sense, yet still feel unable to let them go.
I use Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to help you gradually face uncertainty and discomfort without relying on compulsions or avoidance. The goal isn't to eliminate intrusive thoughts. It's to help you stop letting them dictate your life.
Perfectionism & Fear of Failure
When "good enough" never feels good enough, everyday decisions can become exhausting. Perfectionism can lead to procrastination, over-preparing, reassurance seeking, avoidance, and constant self-criticism.
Therapy can help you loosen the need for certainty and control, practice tolerating imperfection, and build a life guided by your values rather than fear.
Panic & Avoidance
Panic can make you feel like your body is no longer safe or predictable. You may start avoiding places, sensations, activities, or situations because you're afraid of having another panic attack.
Treatment can help you gradually face feared sensations and situations while learning that anxiety and panic, although uncomfortable, don't have to control what you do.
Relationship Anxiety
Relationships can become especially difficult when you're constantly questioning how you feel, what your partner feels, whether you've made the right choice, or whether something is "wrong."
When relationship anxiety becomes a cycle of checking, analyzing, comparing, reassurance seeking, or trying to achieve certainty, an OCD-informed approach can help you step out of that cycle and reconnect with your values.
Life Transitions & Identity
Even when OCD or anxiety isn't the primary concern, major life changes can bring uncertainty, self-doubt, and difficult emotions to the surface. Therapy can provide space to navigate transitions while staying connected to what matters most to you.
I offer a free 15-minute consultation so we can make sure we’re a good fit before committing to the process. I’d love to hear what’s bringing you in.