What I Help With
OCD can make you question almost anything—your relationships, your morality, your identity, your memories, your intentions, even who you are as a person.
And sometimes the thoughts themselves are terrifying.
You may know that what you’re worried about doesn’t completely make sense and still feel an overwhelming need to figure it out, check, replay, confess, research, ask someone for reassurance, or somehow get certain that everything is okay.
I understand how convincing OCD can be—and how exhausting it is to spend so much of your life trying to get certainty from a mind that always seems to find one more question.
I work with all forms of OCD, including intrusive thoughts that may feel disturbing, shameful, violent, sexual, religious, or completely inconsistent with who you believe yourself to be. There is very little you could tell me that would surprise or scare me.
Our work isn’t about proving that your fears aren’t true or helping you finally achieve perfect certainty. It’s about helping you recognize the cycle, change the way you respond to it, and gradually build the freedom to live your life without needing OCD’s permission.
When you’ve been taught that there is a right way to believe, a right way to live, and potentially enormous consequences for getting it wrong, questioning those beliefs can feel like much more than changing your mind.
It can mean questioning your identity, your relationships, your morality, your community, and your entire understanding of the world.
You may be grieving something you once loved while also feeling angry about what it did to you. You may no longer believe what you were taught and still feel fear or shame in your body. You may miss the community while knowing you can’t go back. Or you may still value your faith and be trying to separate what is meaningful to you from what has caused harm.
Therapy doesn’t have to decide what you should believe.
There is room here to question, grieve, be angry, hold onto what matters to you, let go of what doesn’t, and figure out what spirituality, meaning, morality, or life outside of religion looks like for you.
The goal isn’t to replace one set of answers with another. It’s to help you find your own.
OCD and religious/spiritual trauma are particular areas of focus in my practice, but people are rarely just one thing. The things that bring us to therapy overlap with our relationships, histories, identities, losses, and the ways we’ve learned to navigate the world.
I also work with anxiety and perfectionism, trauma and painful past experiences, relationship and attachment patterns, shame and self-worth, identity and life transitions, grief and loss, and questions of meaning and belonging.
You don’t need to fit neatly into a category to belong here.