If you are currently experiencing...

✧ Intrusive Thought Loops: Feeling hijacked by disturbing, scary, or repetitive "what if" thoughts, images, or fears that won't go away

✧Exhausting Safety Behaviors & Compulsions: Feeling driven to perform physical or mental checking, seeking reassurance, over analyzing, or repeating actions to feel "sure" or safe

✧Avoidance & Shrinking Life: Steering clear of certain places, people, conversations, or situations because the anxiety or potential trigger feels too overwhelming to handle

✧ Tired of Fighting Your Mind: Trying to argue with, suppress, or rationalize your thoughts, only to find that the anxiety comes back stronger every time

Then imagine moving toward...

✧ Tolerance & Peace of Mind: Learning to acknowledge intrusive thoughts without spiraling into panic, urgency, or horror

✧ Breaking the Compulsion Cycle: Reclaiming hours of your day by choosing not to engage in mental or physical checking rituals

✧ Freedom & Expanded Living: Confidently stepping back into places and experiences you previously avoided without feeling controlled by fear

✧ True Internal Confidence: Trusting your ability to handle uncertainty and discomfort, knowing you don't need to control everything to be safe

As a BTTI (Behavior Therapy Training Institute)-Trained ERP Specialist, therapy with me could look like:

✧ Collaborative Mapping & Hierarchy Building: We start by thoroughly mapping out your specific triggers, intrusive thoughts, and hidden mental or physical compulsions. Together, we build a step-by-step exposure hierarchy so you are always in control of the pace.

✧Gradual, Safe Exposure Work: We gently and intentionally lean into uncomfortable thoughts or situations together in session, without performing compulsions, allowing your brain to naturally learn that anxiety passes on its own and uncertainty is safe to tolerate.

✧ Integrating Somatic & ACT Tools: We can combine standard ERP with body awareness and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) strategies, helping you stay grounded in your body while allowing scary thoughts to pass like background noise.