How we can help

All of our therapists at Outsmarting Anxiety & OCD practice Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Exposure and Response Prevention, which are proven by evidenced-based research to be the most effective treatments for anxiety and OCD. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) will also be utilized to prioritize what is important in life in order to feel fulfilled and happy. We may also bring in some other treatment modalities if we are working with another concern such as trauma (or PTSD), trichotillomania (hair pulling), or excoriation (skin picking).  

At Outsmarting Anxiety & OCD, we may all have our individual stories that personally drew us to our passion for treating anxiety, OCD and other related concerns. But what we all have in common is our love for helping our clients to make transformational changes: living a life that they want while anxiety takes a back seat.

Your brain may come up with some creative worst case scenarios that leave you feeling petrified, annoyed, and frustrated. And naturally as humans, we try to get rid of the unwanted scary thoughts or the weird worst case scenarios our brains tell us like:

“I have no business being at this party. What if everyone hates me?”

“Why am I having thoughts of hurting my sister? She’s my best friend. What if I go crazy and do something terrible to her? I should probably just stay away from her, maybe far away from everyone.”

Or maybe your child does not want to go anywhere new and asks the same questions over and over like:

“Where are we going? How do we know it’s safe? What if something bad happens there? Can I just stay home?”

So here’s how we deal with it and how we know we’re fit to help. We are not therapists that will just sit and listen to your anxious stories. We’ll listen, and we will take action as a team. Anxiety and OCD often lies or exaggerates to make our worries seem real and threatening. We will learn how to sort out unnecessary worries and OCD thoughts from our own thoughts, thus feeling more confident in our ability to listen to reality. And then we will face your fears together. Click here to learn how.

At Outsmarting Anxiety & OCD, we believe in getting out in the community as much as possible or even to your home if that is what is needed. We want to make sure that we are helping you to face the triggers that make you feel anxious outside the office. So we may go to the store, outside, to school, or to a particular place that spurs panic in you.

Our intention is to help you learn to resist the temptation to avoid anxiety at all costs. The best way to beat anxiety is to simply allow it to be present without doing something in the moment to get rid of it. We learn how to become comfortable with being uncomfortable so you can get back to doing things that feel more like you or so that you’re able to see your child be a kid again, the one you know and love.

This is our passion. To see someone feeling like their life has been ruined in more ways than one to feeling alive and empowered is incredible.

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Let’s be a team and fight this together.