OCD Therapy

Are you constantly checking or seeking reassurance from others?
Do you engage in excessive hand-washing or other compulsive behaviors?
Do you have fears of contamination or germs?
Do you have violent or morally upsetting thoughts?
Do you have anxiety about the safety of loved ones?

Living through the cycles of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) can feel like a living hell. DC Talk Therapy provides OCD therapy that allows you to break free from these cycles.

Using scientifically proven, evidence-based approaches like Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), we’ll help you get your life back.

Sophie Bauer, LICSW, specializes in OCD therapy. Ms. Bauer is a graduate of the International OCD Foundation’s Behavioral Therapy Training Institute program. She has had tremendous success helping those with OCD.

Call us at (202) 588-1288 or email us at info@dctalktherapy.com to get started.

What Is OCD?

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) occurs when a person gets caught in a cycle of obsessions and compulsions.

Obsessions are unwanted, intrusive thoughts, images or urges that trigger distressing feelings. Compulsions are behaviors, or rituals, that people engage in to try to get rid of the obsessions.

While all of us have unusual or irrational thoughts from time to time, not all of us obsess over them. People with OCD can’t help but think about these thoughts, worry about them, and obsess over them. In order to find relief, they act in ways that help them feel safe or less anxious.

For example, you might wash your hands over and over to avoid contamination or you may text your friends multiple times to seek reassurance from them. The relief you feel from compulsions becomes habit-forming, which leads to a difficult-to-break cycle.

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For OCD therapy in DC, call us at 202-588-1288 or email us at info@dctalktherapy.com.

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OCD Therapy in DC

OCD therapy can help you:

Explore your obsessive thoughts
Examine compulsion triggers
Identify underlying factors leading to obsessions and compulsions
Shift compulsive behaviors by embracing healthier coping mechanisms

Ms. Bauer primarily utilizes evidence-based Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) with her OCD clients. ERP is considered by many to be the gold standard in treating OCD.

The exposure part of ERP refers to practicing confronting the thoughts, images and situations that heighten our anxiety. The response prevention component refers to making a choice not to do a compulsive behavior once the anxiety or obsessions have been triggered. In other words, you will learn to tolerate your anxiety when obsessions arise without engaging in compulsions.

In addition, Ms. Bauer uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).