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Anxiety is normal in the face of an upcoming stressful situations. However, experiencing daily anxiety about life is not. Some signs of chronic anxiety are:

• Anxious thoughts or beliefs that are hard to control
• Physical symptoms, such as rapid heartbeat, sweating,  chills, unexplained pains, dizziness, fatigue, and shortness of breath
• Changes in behavior, such as avoiding everyday activities you used to do (traveling, eating at restuarants, dating, etc)

My approach to anxiety treatment:

Individual psychotherapy that challenges your negative beliefs about yourself and restores your confidence in the future. I utilize ERP (exposure and response prevention with EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing).  I teach practical tools and will get you out living your life. 

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is experiencing unwanted and often disturbing intrusive thoughts, images, or urges that trigger intensely distressing feelings. Compulsions are behaviors an individual engages in to attempt to get rid of the obsessions and/or decrease distress.  OCD can manifest around many different themes including:

Contamination OCD

Symmetry OCD

Sexual Orientation OCD

Just Right Feeling OCD

Harm OCD

Postpartum/Perinatal OCD

Scrupulosity or Moral OCD

Relationship OCD

Obsessing about Obsessing

Health Anxiety

Perfectionism

My approach to OCD treatment:

ERP (exposure and response prevention) therapy which is considered the “gold standard” evidenced based therapy for OCD.  ERP therapy is a behavioral therapy that gradually exposes people to situations designed to provoke a person’s obsessions in a safe environment. A key component of ERP is that is doesn’t completely remove distressing situations and thoughts, rather the client learns to tolerate distress and build confidence in their own resilience to handle hard situations.