If OCD has taken over more of your life than you’d like — your time, your relationships, your sense of yourself — you’re not alone, and you don’t have to white-knuckle your way through it. OCD is highly treatable, and I’d be glad to help.
I specialize in working with OCD using Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), the gold-standard, most well-researched treatment for OCD. My approach is grounded in the work of Dr. Edna Foa, one of the founders of modern ERP, and I integrate that structure with a warm, humanistic style, because the how of treatment matters as much as the what.
What OCD Treatment With Me Looks Like
OCD often convinces people that the only way to feel okay is to avoid, check, reassure, or ritualize their way out of distress. ERP works by gently and deliberately doing the opposite: helping you build a new relationship with uncertainty and discomfort, at a pace that’s collaborative rather than forced.
In practice, this means:
We build a clear, individualized map of your OCD together: Before any exposure work begins, your specific obsessions, compulsions, and avoidance patterns.
You should always understand why we’re doing something, not just that we’re doing it. We move at a pace that’s challenging but workable. Some clients want and thrive with a structured, manualized ERP protocol with clear hierarchies, regular homework, and consistent weekly exposures. I enjoy working this way with clients who are ready for it.
For clients who aren’t there yet, we start where you are. Not everyone walks in ready for a fully structured protocol, and that’s not a failure or a sign that ERP “won’t work for you.” I’ve worked successfully with clients who needed more time to build trust in the process, who needed a more flexible or gradual entry point, or whose nervous systems needed more groundwork before diving into exposures. We can build toward structured ERP together, on a timeline that actually fits you.
More than just technique. OCD Treatment isn’t just a technical protocol, it happens in the context of your real life, your relationships, your history, and your goals. I bring clinical structure and evidence-based tools, and I also bring curiosity, warmth, and respect for the fact that you’re the expert on your own experience.
Who I Work With
I work with adults navigating all forms of OCD, including but not limited to:
Contamination and health-related obsessions
Checking, repeating, and reassurance-seeking compulsions
Harm OCD and intrusive thoughts about causing harm
Relationship OCD (ROCD)
Sexual orientation and identity-related obsessions (SO-OCD, HOCD)
Scrupulosity (moral or religious obsessions)
Perfectionism and “just right” OCD
Postpartum and perinatal OCD
A Note on Pace and Readiness
If you’ve tried ERP before and it didn’t stick — maybe it felt too fast, too clinical, or like it didn’t account for the rest of what was going on in your life — that doesn’t mean ERP doesn’t work, and it doesn’t mean something is wrong with you. It often means the pace or the framing wasn’t the right fit. I’d be glad to talk with you about what a better fit might look like.
Getting Started
I offer telehealth sessions to clients located in California. The first step is usually a brief consultation call, where we can talk about what you’re experiencing, what you’ve tried before, and whether working together feels like a good fit.