Coping with OCD is difficult,
but you don’t have to do it alone.
If you’re looking for lasting change, you’re in the right place.
Appointment Types
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Intake
all ages | $200/hr
virtual & in-personWe’ll discuss concerns and complete a standardized assessment to confirm an OCD diagnosis. Based on symptom severity, we will create a personalized treatment plan and measure improvement over time.
Required for all new clients.
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Child
9-17 | $185/hr
virtual & in-personUsing age-appropriate techniques, I’ll teach the child skills to recognize OCD and reduce symptoms.
Caretaker participation required for all children under 12 and strongly encouraged for 12+.
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Adult
18+ | $185/hr
virtual & in-personWe will follow a structured and carefully designed protocol aimed at teaching you effective and practical skills for managing OCD. Additionally, you will be given a daily homework assignment to help you consistently practice and apply these skills in-between our sessions, reinforcing your progress.
Insurance
I currently accept Blue Cross Blue Shield and Blue Care Network insurance and will be accepting Priority Health in the near future. I also offer private pay for all services.
What to Expect
I am a treatment clinician; meaning I don’t typically meet with the same client weekly for years on end. Appointments are all 55 minutes and typically begin with 1-2 sessions per week, tapering down over time to bi-weekly or monthly.
We will begin treatment with an evaluation to verify your diagnosis. From there, we’ll set goals and help you reach them.
I’ve worked with people from all walks of life, but my true passion lies in supporting teens and young adults who are navigating intense faith-based shame and guilt or other taboo themes. While I have a special focus on these areas, I warmly welcome individuals from all backgrounds and experiences to my practice.
What I Don’t Offer
Maintenance Counseling - I am a treatment clinician, aiming for recovery and functional improvement, often involving initial, intensive interventions. I typically don’t see clients on a regular basis for preventative check-ins. My goal is to help you grow until you don’t need me anymore.
Counseling for Young Children - While young children also need support, I specialize in working with ages 9 and up with a particular focus on teens and young adults.
Group Therapy - This may be available in the future, but for right now I’m focused on children, teens, their parents, and young adults. If you are interested, let me know for the future.
Modalities
I am trained in two evidence-based treatments for OCD: Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT). Research shows that each of these therapies brings about significant improvement in symptoms for about two-thirds of people with OCD. I am also trained in Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT) and Habit Reversal Training (HRT) for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors.
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) Therapy
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ERP is a behavioral therapy – we change your behaviors, which in turn changes your thoughts and feelings. A phrase to describe ERP’s treatment approach is “what you resist persists,” so if we want OCD to leave you alone, you must counter-intuitively let the distressing thoughts be there rather than trying to chase them away.
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In ERP, we will expose you to the things that trigger your obsessions and bring you distress in a controlled environment, and then we will have you resist the urge to do a compulsion and instead sit with that distress while it fades away over time.
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Ultimately, you’ll learn that you can tolerate uncomfortable feelings related to your obsessions, and your brain will learn to no longer see intrusive thoughts, images, or urges as a threat, thereby reducing your distress.
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More information about ERP can be found here.
Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT)
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CBIT, or Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics, is a structured therapy that combines habit-reversal training and other behavioral techniques to help individuals manage and reduce tic symptoms.
CBIT is not a cure for tics, but it is a management strategy that can significantly improve quality of life for over half the people who underwent treatment in studies.
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In CBIT, I will teach you strategies to become more aware of your urges to tic, guide you in choosing a competing response you can use when you feel those urges, and help you implement strategies to reduce the likelihood your tics will be triggered in daily activities.
In a typical CBIT session, you will learn to recognize tic triggers, practice competing responses, and develop strategies to manage tics effectively.
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Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT) works because it addresses the behavioral and neurological components involved in tic disorders. The therapy focuses on increasing awareness of tics and teaching individuals competing responses that are incompatible with the tic movement or sound. By doing so, CBIT trains the brain to interrupt the automatic tic behavior.
The effectiveness of CBIT lies in its ability to modify the premonitory urge—the uncomfortable sensation that often precedes a tic—helping individuals to manage or reduce these urges through behavioral strategies. This intervention also incorporates relaxation techniques and functional analysis, which identifies triggers or situations that exacerbate tics, enabling patients to develop coping mechanisms.
Additionally, CBIT’s structured, repetitive approach promotes neuroplasticity, encouraging the brain to form new pathways that diminish tic severity over time. Because it empowers individuals with self-regulation skills rather than relying solely on medication, CBIT offers a sustainable and evidence-based treatment for reducing tic frequency and improving quality of life.
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More information about CBIT can be found here.
Inference-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT)
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I-CBT (Inference-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) views obsessions as inferences or doubts that occur due to faulty reasoning, distrust of the senses, and vulnerable self themes. This results in the person with OCD treating abstract possibilities without any direct relevance to the here-and-now as actual probabilities that need to be taken seriously. OCD creates this confusion through clever tricks and cheats that are part of the reasoning story behind the obsessional doubt, which can make the unreal feel very real.
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In I-CBT, I will teach you to trust your senses to overcome the tricks of OCD, rather than teaching you to tolerate discomfort. A phrase to describe I-CBT’s treatment approach is “be where your feet are,” so if we want OCD to leave you alone, you must re-engage with your senses in the present moment rather than getting sucked into thought spirals about possibilities.
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Once you disengage from OCD’s story, you won’t need to do your compulsions anymore; they become irrelevant. In this type of therapy, we change your thoughts, which in turn changes your feelings and behaviors.
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More information about I-CBT can be found here.
Habit Reversal Training (HRT) Therapy
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HRT (Habit Reversal Training) therapy is a behavioral therapy used to treat body-focused repetitive behaviors like skin picking or hair pulling and is very similar to CBIT. Simply put, HRT helps you recognize and change unwanted behaviors.
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I will teach you strategies to become more aware of your urges to pick or pull, guide you in choosing a competing response you can use when you feel those urges, and help you identify strategies to reduce the likelihood that environmental stimuli will trigger your desire to pick or pull. We will also address beliefs that may contribute to the undesired behavior.
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Habit reversal training works by increasing awareness of the unwanted behavior and teaching individuals alternative, competing responses to replace it. This structured approach helps break automatic patterns by encouraging conscious control, reducing the frequency of the habit over time through consistent practice and reinforcement.
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More information about HRT can be found here.