When your mind won't let you move on.
OCD therapy for women navigating intrusive thoughts, compulsions, uncertainty, and the exhausting need to feel certain.
Virtual therapy for women in New York
OCD can make ordinary decisions feel impossible.
I understand how exhausting that cycle can become.
OCD isn't always obvious from the outside.
You may look like someone who is thoughtful, responsible, careful, or simply someone who thinks things through. But internally, you may be caught in a cycle of intrusive thoughts, doubt, checking, analyzing, reassurance-seeking, or avoidance that becomes increasingly difficult to shut off.
You may know that you're asking the same question again. You may know that you've checked something before. You may even recognize that the thought doesn't make sense.
But knowing that doesn't make the uncertainty go away.
And so you check again.
You replay the conversation.
You search for reassurance.
You analyze what you were thinking, what you were feeling, and what it might mean about you.
You try to get to the point where you finally feel certain enough to move on.
But OCD keeps moving the goalpost.
You deserve a space where you can talk about thoughts that feel frightening, embarrassing, irrational, or completely unlike you, without being judged for having them.
You might be here because…
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You can't stop analyzing
You replay conversations, decisions, memories, and possibilities, trying to find the answer that will finally make you feel certain. The more you analyze, the harder it becomes to trust your own thoughts and move forward.
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When You Keep Looking for Reassurance
You may find yourself checking, asking for reassurance, reviewing, or avoiding situations that bring up uncertainty. The relief may come briefly but then the doubt returns, asking you to check or figure it out all over again.
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When Your Thoughts Feel Frightening or Unfamiliar
Intrusive thoughts and unwanted mental images can leave you questioning yourself and what those thoughts might mean. You may know that the thoughts don't reflect who you are, yet still feel compelled to understand, neutralize, or get away from them.
Therapy can help you step out of the cycle.
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Understanding OCD
Learn to recognize the difference between an intrusive thought and the meaning OCD assigns to it.
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Breaking the reassurance cycle
Begin stepping away from reassurance-seeking, checking, rumination, and other compulsive responses that temporarily reduce anxiety but keep the cycle going.
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Learning to tolerate uncertainty
Build the ability to move forward without needing complete certainty before you act.
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Facing what anxiety tells you to avoid
Gradually approach situations you've been avoiding rather than allowing OCD to determine what you can and cannot do.
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Changing your relationship with intrusive thoughts
Learn that having a thought does not make it true, meaningful, dangerous, or representative of who you are.
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Getting back to your life
The goal isn't to spend your life managing OCD.
It's to have the freedom to make decisions, maintain relationships, work, rest, and live according to your values even when uncertainty shows up.
OCD therapy informed by evidence-based treatment
My approach to OCD therapy incorporates Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), an evidence-based treatment for OCD, alongside strategies that can help you develop a different relationship with anxiety, uncertainty, and difficult thoughts.
Therapy is collaborative and individualized. We work together to understand your OCD cycle, identify the patterns keeping it going, and gradually build your ability to respond differently.
The goal isn't to make every uncomfortable thought disappear.
It's to help OCD take up less space in your life.
OCD Presentations I Work With
I work with women experiencing OCD and intrusive thoughts across several common presentations, including perinatal OCD, relationship OCD, contamination fears, perfectionism and “just right” compulsions, real-event and false-memory OCD, and scrupulosity. I also work with clients experiencing responsibility, harm-related, and other intrusive-thought themes when they are appropriate for outpatient treatment within my training and scope.
For more complex presentations, cases requiring intensive ERP, acute psychiatric care, or specialized multidisciplinary treatment may be referred to a provider with additional expertise.
This may be a good fit if you're…
Experiencing intrusive thoughts that feel disturbing or unwanted
Caught in cycles of checking, reassurance-seeking, or rumination
Struggling with an overwhelming need for certainty
Avoiding situations because of OCD-related fears
Spending significant amounts of time analyzing whether something is “right,” “wrong,” “safe,” or “dangerous”
Questioning what your thoughts or feelings mean about you
Experiencing relationship-related OCD symptoms
Struggling with contamination fears or fears of illness
Experiencing responsibility or harm-related fears
Dealing with perfectionistic or “just right” compulsions
Spending hours mentally reviewing conversations, memories, or decisions
Ready to work on OCD rather than continuing to organize your life around avoiding it
Questions you may be asking
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No. You don't need to arrive with a formal diagnosis. A consultation can help us better understand what you're experiencing and whether OCD-focused therapy may be appropriate.
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Intrusive thoughts can be deeply uncomfortable, and having an unwanted thought does not mean you want it to happen or that it reflects your character. Therapy provides a nonjudgmental space to discuss these experiences.
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Yes. ERP is a central evidence-based treatment for OCD. We can discuss what ERP might look like for you during the consultation and develop an approach that fits your symptoms and goals.
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OCD doesn't always involve obvious behaviors. Mental compulsions can include reviewing, analyzing, comparing, mentally checking, or repeatedly trying to reach certainty.
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Yes. OCD can become intertwined with relationships through reassurance-seeking, doubt, checking feelings, analyzing interactions, or fears about whether a relationship is “right.”
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You can learn more about fees, scheduling, and what to expect from the therapy process on my Fees & FAQ page.
You don't have to keep negotiating with your thoughts.
OCD can make you believe that if you just think about something a little longer, check one more time, or find the right answer, you'll finally feel certain.
Therapy can help you step out of that cycle and make room for a life that isn't organized around getting rid of uncertainty.
You can learn to move forward without having every answer first.