OCD therapists in Dorchester, Ontario ON, Canada CA
OCD
Gabrielle Ferguson
Registered Psychotherapist, BA, GC-C, RP-qualifying
OCD can be very challenging and can interfere with ability to function in the world. There is most definitely hope! When OCD is approached with acceptance, compassion, and safety, huge changes can occur.
2 Years Experience
OCD
Dennis Keefe
Registered Psychotherapist, M.A.
I like to help clients let go of the need to control everything. Often the cost of preventing bad things from happening is greater than the cost of the bad things actually happening. I often use CBT to do structured work beginning with psychoeduction particularly around the causes of OCD and what is maintaining it. Then an examination of unhelpful thoughts specifically targeting the client's thoughts about the intrusive thoughts. Often followed by Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) where the client is aided in reducing compulsive behaviour.
3 Years Experience
OCD
Len Ramsay
Registered Psychotherapist, Gestalt Therapist , M.B.A.
Obsession. Compulsion. Addiction. These are first cousins, thoughts and actions that seem to happen all on their own volition. In my work, there is always something good about these 3 amigos - or they would not be here in your life. The work is to discover what that is, and like in the serentiy prayer: Deal with what you can change, accept what you can't , and know the difference. Sometimes it means changing a belief, sometimes a field or environmental condition... sometimes taking care of some emotions hiding in dark places.
11 Years Experience
OCD
Stacey Stemplowski
Registered Psychotherapist, BA, RP, CCPA, OAMHP
Examination of the behaviours, accessing the thoughts and validating the experience. Changes to be made? Efforts to be highlighted?
7 Years Experience
OCD
Mind By Design®
Registered Psychotherapist, Psychology and Coaching Clinics
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is another mental disorder that is an improperly used term in pop media as it is usual to have routines that make us better even though it would not distress us if we could not do them. OCD on the other hand is when these routines start to impact the sufferer’s life, they inhibit them from fully functioning daily. Thus, people with OCD can feel as though their impulses and behaviours are outside of their control and are somehow unnatural.
15 Years Experience