My Treatment Approach

I integrate evidence-based therapies with your values and goals. The main approaches I use—CBT, ERP, ACT, and I-CBT—are well-supported by research and can be very helpful for many people living with OCD and anxiety.

COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (CBT) focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It helps you notice unhelpful thinking patterns and learn new ways of responding so anxiety has less control over your actions. CBT is short-term, structured, and skills-based, designed to help you make meaningful, lasting change.

EXPOSURE AND RESPONSE PREVENTION (ERP) is the gold-standard treatment for OCD and anxiety. It involves gradually facing the things you fear while resisting the urge to engage in behaviors that temporarily relieve anxiety but keep it going over time. Through this process, you learn that anxiety naturally fades and that you can handle discomfort without avoidance or rituals.

ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY (ACT) teaches you how to make room for distressing thoughts and emotions while staying focused on what matters most to you. Instead of trying to eliminate anxiety, ACT helps you change your relationship with it—so you can live more fully, even when discomfort shows up.

INFERENCE-BASED COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (I-CBT) is an evidence-based treatment for OCD that focuses on how obsessional doubts begin. It views obsessions not as random intrusive thoughts, but as doubts created by faulty reasoning—a tendency to distrust one’s senses and rely too heavily on imagination (“What if I left the stove on?” “What if I’m contaminated?”). Rather than targeting the anxiety or compulsions that follow these thoughts, I-CBT helps clients examine and correct the reasoning process that produces obsessional doubt in the first place. Through therapy, clients learn to distinguish normal, reality-based doubts from obsessional ones and to trust their senses and present experiences again. Research shows I-CBT can be highly effective for many people with OCD, including those who have not benefited fully from traditional CBT or ERP.