Hope+Wellness

Treatment for OCD

OCD therapy to help you gain freedom over your thoughts, mood, and life

You feel out of control. You get intense thoughts that get stuck and which you can’t seem to escape from.

The only thing that you have found that has helped are things you do to help regain a sense of of it. Washing, cleaning, checking, repeating. These compulsions are calming, soothing, anxiety relieving.

Until it isn’t.

This is because you’ve now noticed that you are plagued by constant intrusive, obsessive OCD thoughts that you can’t get out of your mind. And you now find that you have to engage in compulsions to feel safe and to relieve your anxiety and OCD. You don’t understand how something which you began to help calm yourself and to instill a sense of control in your life, is now what leads to you feeling so trapped.

You’ve recently discovered that you’ve been experiencing symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Learning about it alone has been so freeing because there are finally words for what you are experiencing.

The good news is that with treatment for OCD, you can experience relief and freedom again. We provide gold standard, evidence-based treatment for OCD, including exposure and response therapy (ERP) and cognitive and behavioral therapy (CBT). You are not alone. You can break free of your OCD and live a full life again.

Free your life from OCD

OCD therapy in Northern Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC

OCD can make your life feel smaller. It can also make it hard for you to do things — simple things, sometimes — as well as to live the life you want or to become the person you know you are capable of becoming.

Here at Hope+Wellness, you will work with an OCD therapist to feel safe and supported while learning more about the nature of your OCD as well as specific skills for managing your OCD. Using effective, research supported treatments for OCD, including exposure and response prevention (ERP), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and acceptance and mindfulness based approaches, we will help you learn how to manage and break free of your OCD to help you move toward the full and rich life you were meant for.

It can be scary to begin therapy and to treat your OCD, as your OCD also can feel comforting and familiar. If you are feeling this way, do not worry, because treatment with an OCD therapist at Hope+Wellness is collaborative and tailored specifically for you, at a pace you feel comfortable with. You are not alone.

Potential benefits of OCD therapy

Therapy for OCD involves significant time and commitment. There are no guarantees in therapy, but potential benefits of working with us to get help and support for OCD include the following:

  • Greater self-compassion toward yourself as you work to face your fears

  • Learn more about the nature of your OCD and what to do when compulsions and intrusive thoughts arise

  • Gain freedom from compulsions and intrusive thoughts

  • Develop healthier habits to build a life that is meaningful and valued to you even in the face of OCD

  • Gain insight into unhealthy behaviors that maintain the OCD versus healthy behaviors that help you break free of OCD

  • Connect with others without letting OCD, anxiety, or fear get in the way.

  • Feeling more comfortable in your own skin, and feel more accepting of yourself and others no matter what life brings your way

  • Learn how to cultivate peace even in the midst of stressful events

  • Develop healthy, balanced ways of looking at life

  • Develop a healthy relationship with control, learning ways to let go

  • Learn to sit with anxiety and OCD with nonjudgment, acceptance, and curiosity to gain space and freedom from it

  • An improved sense of wellness and wellbeing

“I do not have OCD OCD OCD.”
— Emilie Autumn

Getting started with therapy for OCD

We are passionate about providing you with a supportive therapy space that is genuine and authentic — where you truly feel cared for. A space that is human and compassionate, where you feel deeply seen and accepted.

We work with kids, teens, young adults, and adults experiencing obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), unwanted, intrusive thoughts, images or urges that feel out of your control; intense, distressing emotions including fear, disgust, and restless doubt; as well as compulsions.

We can help with all types of obsessions, including:

  • Contamination Obsessions

  • Violent Obsessions

  • Sexual Obsessions

  • Responsibility Obsessions

  • Perfectionism-Related Obsessions

  • Religious/Moral Obsessions

  • Identity Obsessions

We can help you with all types of compulsions as well, including:

  • Checking Compulsions

  • Washing, Cleaning, and Contamination Compulsions

  • Symmetry Compulsions

  • Repeating Compulsions

  • Mental Compulsions

  • “Just Feels Right” Compulsions

We are passionate about offering treatments for OCD that are based in research that are designed and found to be effective. OCD treatment approaches we specialize in include exposure and response prevention (ERP), cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), mindfulness and acceptance based therapies, relaxation training, and stress management.

It is important that you find the therapist that you are comfortable with and feel a strong, genuine connection to. Therefore, we invite you to learn more about us, read our blog, and to read about getting started and frequently asked questions. When you are ready, you can reach out to us to ask a question or to schedule an initial consultation appointment.

“A lot of people assume that having OCD means liking things organized or hating germs. It tends to be treated like a quirk or an endearing trait. But it’s so much more than that. It’s the one thing that prohibits me from being free of myself.”
— Whitney Amazeen

Who we help

Our therapists specialize in treating anxiety, depression, stress, life adjustment and more

  • Anxiety

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh

You are not alone. We are here to help.

Hope+Wellness provides individual therapy for OCD, anxiety, depression, stress, life adjustment, grief & loss, chronic health conditions and more. We serve Falls Church, McLean, and Arlington, as well as Tysons Corner, Vienna, Reston, Great Falls, Fairfax, Merrifield, and Alexandria, as well as Washington DC and Maryland. Telehealth is available across 20+ other states.

We provide exceptional psychotherapy services to empower people to live happier, healthier lives. Our services are grounded in evidence-based treatments that suggest an important interconnectedness between mind, body, life experience, and wellness, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based therapies. We will work together to help you heal and develop the skills to live fully aware, fully resilient, fully peaceful, mindful, and alive.