Exposure and response prevention is important. However, it’s a mistake to jump into it without having established a few foundations between client and counselor, first.

Here is a list of resources, mine and others,’ on chronic disease and OCD.

Do you like to pull hair or pick skin? Me too! But when it becomes a problem, what do we do?

Sometimes the best thing you can do for your loved one with OCD is to stop accommodating their OCD. The WAY you do it is very important though….

Sometimes dietary changes are a necessary part of a medical treatment plan. But too often, I see flippant suggestions to cut out one food or another, without a plan to reintroduce foods down the line.

Yes neurodivergent people can safety use ERP to treat their OCD symptoms. However, you must differentiate OCD accommodations from reasonable accommodations first.

Disordered eating and OCD frequently co-occur. However, OCD-related disordered eating has its own underlying concerns and causes.

Is it ADHD hyperfocus or is it OCD? This is a tricky differential diagnosis. This is a very brief discussion…

ACT-based ERP helps make the hard work of exposure therapy relevant to the individual client at hand. By making doing difficult things highly relevant to the client, we can get further, faster.

Differentiating OCD and GAD can be tricky. There is one key concept that I use when I’m trying to figure out which one best describes the client at hand.