North Shore OCD Women's Treatment Center, Ltd.

Treatment offerings include but are not limited to: comprehensive diagnostic evaluation and monitoring of OCD, individual therapy, intensive outpatient therapy, pre-therapy, individualized treatment planning, client education on OCD, between-session planning, maintenance therapy and relapse prevention, parent/spouse/family sessions, and consultation with client's other clinicians and psychiatrists. Psychologist, Advocate, Speaker, Author Dr. Fine will be presenting at the International OCD Foundation’s 2022 Online OCD Conference: Adult Women with OCD Community Discussion Group & Perinatal OCD Community Discussion Group. Dr. Kathi Fine received her clinical psychology degree from a Ph.D. program that was deemed an NIH Program of Excellence in Scientifically Validated Behavioral Treatment. She continued her advanced cognitive behavioral training at the University of Michigan. Dr. Fine gained additional expertise through the OCD Midwest Case Consultation Group. Helping clients is Dr. Fine’s greatest passion and she has done so at numerous locations including the Washington University School of Medicine, Rogers Memorial Hospital, the Anxiety Treatment Center of Greater Chicago, and the University of Michigan. Dr. Fine published a New Harbinger workbook, presented on exposure therapy at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America national conference and has a first-author publication in the journal Cognitive and Behavioral Practice. Deeply immersed in the OCD field, Dr. Fine is a proud supporter of and donator to the International OCD Foundation and OCD Midwest. Dr. Fine has been accepted into the Psypact Commission, which reflects high standards and competencies and grants her the authority to practice interjurisdictional telepsychology. It is okay to be nervous about OCD treatment. People often feel embarrassed about their thoughts or compulsions. We hold no judgment about these experiences. We understand and have likely heard it before and any thought or compulsion does not mean anything negative about you. Exposure and Response Prevention is the primary treatment technique used and is the gold standard for OCD treatment. We will guide you in a step-by-step process of exposing yourself to the thoughts and situations that are triggering your distress- without allowing a compulsion to stop the distress. Without the compulsive behaviors you will habituate to the distress or learn you can tolerate the thoughts/feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy skills will focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and developing personal coping strategies.