5 Ways to Manage Your Health Anxiety
April 18, 2022
By Karen Lynn Cassiday, PhD, author of Freedom From Health Anxiety Does your mind get stuck on worry that a bump, rash, headache, or illness symptom is the beginning of… READ MORE
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The Bluff of “Have To”
March 7, 2022
By Clarissa W. Ong, PhD, coauthor of The Anxious Perfectionist We tend to think that we don’t have choices, that we have to do certain things. I have to work… READ MORE
How Self-Judgment and Self-Criticism Interfere with OCD Treatment and OCD Recovery
October 12, 2021
By Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT, author of The Self-Compassion Workbook for OCD For the last ten years, I have had the honor of working alongside my patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)… READ MORE
Don’t Forget about Mental Rituals in Your OCD Assessments
January 26, 2021
By Jon Hershfield, MFT Clients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) often fail to recognize the role mental rituals play in maintaining their symptoms. Because they may not already be educated about the existence of… READ MORE
OCD: It’s Not about Doing Exposures, It’s about How to Do Exposures
August 7, 2020
By Marisa T. Mazza, PsyD, author of The ACT Workbook for OCD Tips on Practicing Acceptance-Based Exposures: Oftentimes the aim of traditional exposure and response prevention (ERP) is to eradicate obsessive-compulsive… READ MORE
“He Went That Way!”
May 11, 2020
By Ben Sedley, PhD and Lisa Coyne, PhD, coauthors of Stuff That’s Loud The alarms went off; the bank had been robbed. The police came running to the scene, and were… READ MORE
How to Help Clients with OCD Disclose Their Intrusive Thoughts on Day One
March 26, 2019
By Jon Hershfield, MFT If you work with clients who have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), one challenge in treatment that starts on the first day is getting a complete picture of the… READ MORE
Everything You Wanted to Know About Anxiety—From an Expert
May 11, 2018
An Interview with Anxiety Expert Edmund Bourne, PhD In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we reached out to anxiety expert and self-help veteran Edmund Bourne—author of the bestselling classic,… READ MORE
5 Ways to Make Meditation More Accessible to People With OCD and Anxiety
March 2, 2018
Jon Hershfield, MFT, co-author of Everyday Mindfulness for OCD Significant evidence suggests that mindfulness, the skill of being aware of the present moment without judgment, is effective for reducing suffering… READ MORE
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