Cali Keating

Do you have repeated intrusive thoughts that you could never tell your friends about? Keep things you don’t need, count, check, skin pick? Avoid, seek reassurance, or distract yourself from situations you feel you can’t handle? If you have OCD, or believe you may have OCD, you may have developed physical or mental compulsions that take hours of your time every week. OCD tells us we just need to keep doing compulsions, and then we’ll feel better.

Compulsions sound like: I just need to wear gloves and goggles to do the dishes, then I will be ok. I just need to finish going over every word I said and every gesture I made to make sure I didn’t embarrass myself, then I will be ok. I just need to pick one more part of my skin, then I will be ok. I just have to google my symptoms, then I will be ok.

Many of my clients have not had the opportunity to learn how to be ok without compulsions. You may have tried to stop doing compulsions on your own, but often this is not sustainable and does not get rid of other compulsions. I can help you become an expert in how your OCD works so you can have autonomy over your thoughts and actions.

I work with most OCD themes, even the most challenging or embarrassing. I can help you with contamination OCD, pOCD and taboo thoughts, primarily obsessional or "pure O" OCD, morality and scrupulosity OCD, health anxiety or health OCD, real event OCD, and driving OCD. Phobias that may be associated with OCD are treated the same way, like fear of flying, fear of vomiting (emetophobia), fear of driving, and more. Skin picking is also associated with OCD and anxiety, and I can help with this using some OCD skills and some body focused repetitive behavior skills.