Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Anxiety disorders affect many people at some point in their lives.
Anxiety can take many forms, including excessive and uncontrollable worry, fear and apprehension in certain situations like social, crowded, or closed-off spaces, intense phobias for specific triggers, and panic attacks. Similar to anxiety, OCD and related problems like hoarding, skin- and hair-picking, and body dysmorphia involve intrusive, disturbing thoughts or images (obsessions) and uncontrollable behaviors to address them (compulsions).
At Dig Deep Psychology, we offer evidence-based psychotherapy for anxiety and OCD to help you reduce your symptoms and distress, change your anxiety- and fear-based behaviors, and face your fears without avoiding them or restricting your life. Often, treatment for anxiety and OCD will involve Exposure and Response Prevention therapy (ERP), which helps you systematically tackle your fears and gain control over them, instead of letting them control you. If you have been struggling with anxiety, fear, panic, or OCD, reach out to us to discuss how our psychologists can help treat your concerns and empower you to reclaim your life from these symptoms.