OCD Treatment

OCD Treatment in Austin

Obsessive Thinking? Compulsive and repetitive behavior?

Your Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) symptoms are unique to you. You may experience milder symptoms, spending about 1 or 2 hours daily on intrusive thoughts or performing compulsions to find ease. On the other hand, obsessions and compulsions may be almost constant, severely impacting your daily functioning. 

It doesn’t have to be like that. You can learn to let go of unwanted thoughts and urges through skilled treatments—and the right help.

Signs of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

You may experience obsessive ideas and compulsive behaviors as a person with OCD. They can take up time, cause you to avoid triggers, and cause great distress in your life when you’re not able to act on them. Do you recognize these signs?

Obsessions:

  • Intrusive, unwanted thoughts, images, or urges 
  • Fears of contamination, harm, or a need for order, certainty, and symmetry 
  • Can be perceived as real, causing significant distress

 

Compulsions

  • Repetitive behaviors or mental acts aimed at reducing obsession-induced stress
  • Excessive washing, cleaning, counting, or checking
  • Provide temporary relief but perpetuate a cycle of anxiety and compulsive behavior
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Break Free with OCD Treatment

To overcome your obsessions and compulsions, our treatments help you learn to be more aware of your OCD symptoms to best confront them. You will learn actionable insights about your unique OCD symptoms through our structured and skill-based sessions. Find the relief you need in the proven treatments we offer, such as:

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) — Learn to face your fears without engaging in compulsive behaviors to break out of the cycle. This therapy helps you confront uncomfortable situations with repeated exposure in safe environments to help minimize your anxiety towards them. 

Rumination Focused Exposure and Response Prevention (RF-ERP) — Curtail compulsions and anxiety by learning to control ruminating thoughts. RF-ERP can help you discover how to control your thinking patterns and better manage anxiety as you confront and overcome your triggers. 

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) — Challenge negative or harmful ways of thinking with CBT, which can also deliver exposure and response treatment.

Your Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) symptoms are unique to you. You may experience milder symptoms, spending about 1 or 2 hours daily on intrusive thoughts or performing compulsions to find ease. On the other hand, obsessions and compulsions may be almost constant, severely impacting your daily functioning. 

It doesn’t have to be like that. You can learn to let go of unwanted thoughts and urges through skilled treatments—and the right help.

You will courageously confront your fears in a systematic and gradual manner with the guidance of one of our OCD specialists. As you face your fears without giving in to compulsions, their hold over you will diminish. In time, you’ll find that these fears are merely thoughts you don’t need to give attention to.

It can get better. We can help.