If you’ve been struggling with OCD for a while, you’ve probably already tried to think your way out of it. You may have analyzed, reviewed, searched for certainty, or tried to “figure it out” from every possible angle, only to end up feeling more exhausted and stuck.

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I work with all forms of OCD, including complicated and difficult-to-treat presentations. I specialize in Rumination-Focused ERP, an approach that is especially attuned to the mental compulsions that often show up in “Pure O” and other obsessional forms of OCD. In these cases, the compulsion may not be something visible. It may be the constant internal effort to resolve, neutralize, reassure, or reach certainty.

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In treatment, we begin by helping you notice these patterns in real time. Together, we work on interrupting the urge to ruminate and building a different relationship to uncertainty, fear, and distress.

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I also believe OCD symptoms aren’t random.  Beneath the cycle, there are often real fears, emotional conflicts, and adaptations that have developed over time. Alongside concrete skills for interrupting OCD, I bring a psychoanalytic lens to the work so we can tend to the deeper emotional layers underneath, that often sustain symptoms.

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My hope is that you leave treatment not only with tools, but with a clearer and more compassionate understanding of yourself.