Understanding Patterns
We begin by identifying the triggers and thoughts that keep your OCD cycle active.
Learn how Exposure and Response Prevention and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy help you take back control
We begin by identifying the triggers and thoughts that keep your OCD cycle active.
Next, we gradually approach situations that trigger obsessions without engaging in compulsions.
Through repeated exposure, we learn to sit with the discomfort and uncertainty caused by obsessions.
By choosing not to engage in compulsive behaviors, we break the cycle of OCD.
Foa, E. B. (1996). The efficacy of behavioral therapy with obsessive-compulsives. The Clinical Psychologist, 49(2), 19–22.
ERP is empirically validated; which means that studies show it to be the most effective treatment for OCD and can achieve real, meaningful results.
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