You know what’s happening. You’ve done the research, you understand the cycle. What you haven’t been able to do is stop it and that’s exactly what treatment is for.
You’ve probably read enough to know something is actually wrong. Maybe you’ve been calling yourself a worrier for so long it started to feel like just who you are. Maybe you’ve tried the meditation apps, the self-help books, the breathing exercises, and none of it worked. That’s not because you didn’t try hard enough. It’s because those tools weren’t designed for what you’re dealing with.
I specialize in OCD, panic disorder, and anxiety. Not as a broad category but as a clinical focus. I use Exposure and Response Prevention because it has the research behind it, and I’m honest with you about what it requires. If you’re ready to do more than manage this, I’d like to talk.
You’re right for my practice if you’ve been managing your anxiety long enough to know management isn’t enough. If you’ve tried therapy before and left feeling like you only scratched the surface. If you suspect you have OCD but aren’t sure anyone will take it seriously. If panic attacks have started to dictate what you do and where you go. If you’re functioning on the outside and exhausted on the inside. I work exclusively with adults. I don’t treat everything, I specialize because it makes me better at this specific thing. The clients I work with aren’t looking for someone to listen. They’re looking for someone who already knows what they’re about to say.
How I Can Help — OCD
The obsessions aren’t the real problem. The relationship you have with them is. Using ERP and I-CBT, we work on changing what you do with the thoughts, not on making them stop.
How I Can Help — Panic Disorder
Panic attacks are terrifying, and the anticipatory anxiety that builds around them is often worse than the attacks themselves. Treatment targets both the physical fear cycle and the avoidance that’s been quietly shrinking your world.
How I Can Help — Health Anxiety
Reassurance doesn’t work, and at some point, you know that. We work on breaking the checking and reassurance-seeking cycle so you can stop outsourcing certainty to Google.
How I Can Help — Social Anxiety
Fear of judgment and embarrassment is one thing. The ways you’ve been quietly reorganizing your life around it is another. Treatment addresses both.
I use evidence-based treatment: ERP for OCD and panic, and Inference-Based CBT for OCD and health anxiety, because those are the treatments with the research behind them. I-CBT addresses the reasoning behind the obsession rather than just the response to it. Most therapists who treat OCD don’t use it, I do.
I also treat clients whose OCD or anxiety is complicated by substance use. The IOCDF has identified this as an underserved population, most OCD specialists aren’t trained to treat both. I spent more than twenty years in substance use treatment before opening this practice. That background didn’t go anywhere.
I’m also direct. I’ll tell you what treatment involves, what it’s going to ask of you, and what you can realistically expect. Recovery from OCD and anxiety requires real effort, exposure work is uncomfortable by design. I won’t promise you calm. I’ll help you build tolerance for uncertainty, and over time, that changes everything.
Download The Calm Reset, a short, therapist-created guide with 3 evidence-based tools to help your nervous system settle.
I created a short, practical guide with calming tools I use in my therapy practice to help reduce overthinking and bring your nervous system back to baseline.