OCD can feel exhausting, confusing, and isolating. Many people with OCD experience unwanted intrusive thoughts, images, urges, or doubts that feel distressing and difficult to move on from. These thoughts may be followed by compulsions or safety behaviours, such as reassurance-seeking, checking, mental reviewing, avoidance, researching, or trying to feel completely certain.

We support clients experiencing concerns such as:

• intrusive thoughts

• compulsive checking/ordering

• mental rituals and rumination (pure O)

• contamination fears

• health-related obsessions

• relationship OCD

• hit-and-run OCD

• harm-related fears

• fear of uncertainty

• avoidance and safety behaviours

• sexuality-related fears

• morality OCD

Therapy for OCD focuses on helping you better understand the cycle of intrusive thoughts, anxiety, compulsions, and avoidance. Using evidence-based approaches like Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), therapy can help you gradually reduce compulsive behaviours, build tolerance for uncertainty, and respond to intrusive thoughts with greater flexibility and confidence so they feel less consuming over time.