I specialize in treating OCD using Rumination-Focused Exposure and Response Prevention (RF-ERP). This approach understands that the core compulsion in many forms of OCD — especially the more “Pure O” types — is rumination: the often unwanted and "out of control feeling," mental behavior of obsessively trying to figure things out, get certainty, or solve a feeling.

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Instead of focusing only on the content of your thoughts, we look at what your mind is doing in response to them. That could be mentally reviewing, analyzing, checking, or trying to “feel right.” These are all compulsions.

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In our work together, we’ll slow this down and begin to notice these patterns as they’re happening. I’ll help you learn how to recognize when you’re ruminating, and how to step out of it, by practicing a different way of responding when the urge to ruminate or obsessively solve shows up. 

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Alongside this, we’ll prioritize engaging with the emotional layers sustaining your OCD or anxiety; the fears, conflicts, or long-held patterns that fuel the obsessive compulsive cycle and keep it in place.

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The psychoanalytic perspectives that we bring to OCD treatment not only make the work more relational and human, but also more effective. To read more about the RF-ERP approach to OCD, please see my supervisor, Dr. Michael J. Greenberg's OCD Associates practice website. 

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