OCD is an often debilitating and life consuming but treatable mental health concern. You do not need to try and cope with OCD alone. You can expect Cameron and Ryan to be compassionate in their approach to working with cleints, while providing a structured and methodical treatment modality. The treatment for OCD is quite specific and manualized.

Research and client feedback has shown the best practice approach for treatment of OCD is Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). This approach utilizes aspects of prolonged exposure and desensitization to manage, overcome, and decouple obsessive thoughts from the complusive behaviors. Breaking this connection is key to managing underlying anxiety symptoms. While going through this process self-regulation techniques are often used to help clients cope.

The long term goal with OCD is the management of symtpoms so people can funciton well in life, relationships, and work. Often Anxiety or Trauma work is also required to manage the underlying issue that drives the OCD behavior. Depending on severity of symptoms this treatment timeline can vary.