Online OCD therapists in Rancho Penasquitos, California CA
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RelaxingOne.com Ned David Bratspis, PC
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
We are all imperfect and there is no perfect way to to deal with OCD.
35 Years Experience
Online in Rancho Penasquitos, CA (Online Only)
Empowered Path Clinical Counseling, PC
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPCC, MA, CBIF, CAMS-II, CART, LMFT, AMFT, APCC
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder can feel exhausting, frustrating, and isolating. We use evidence-based approaches to help you reduce intrusive thoughts, manage compulsive behaviors, and regain a sense of control over your life. Therapy is tailored to your pace, ensuring a supportive and empowering process.
11 Years Experience
Online in Rancho Penasquitos, CA
Stephanie Morfitt, LCSW More Fit Mental Health
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
When Your Mind Won’t Stop Looping
If you live with obsessive thoughts or repetitive behaviors, you probably already know how exhausting it can be. You might spend hours replaying what you said, checking if something bad might happen, or trying to get rid of thoughts that won’t leave you alone. Even though you know the worries aren’t logical, they still feel impossible to control. OCD isn’t about being “neat” or “organized.” It’s about anxiety that latches onto what matters most to you — your safety, your relationships, your values — and tricks your brain into thinking you need to keep checking or fixing something to feel okay.
In our work together, we’ll use a structured, evidence-based approach that combines TEAM-CBT with Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) — the gold-standard treatment for OCD. You’ll learn how to:
Break free from obsessive loops by gently facing feared thoughts instead of avoiding them
Reduce compulsions and checking behaviors step by step, in a safe, guided way
Calm the anxiety that drives the urge to control or neutralize uncertainty
Understand and retrain the beliefs that keep OCD patterns alive
Build confidence in your ability to handle discomfort without giving in to rituals
Our sessions are structured, compassionate, and active. You’ll track progress weekly and practice small daily exercises that teach your brain new patterns of safety and trust. Over time, what once felt unbearable starts to lose its power.
I BELIEVE:
OCD doesn’t define you — it’s a pattern your brain learned, and it can learn new ones.
Courage isn’t the absence of fear; it’s doing what matters while fear is present.
Recovery happens one small exposure at a time, not in giant leaps.
You deserve freedom from the constant “what ifs” that steal your peace.
Humor and self-compassion are essential tools in healing — not luxuries.
Also Integrated In Our Work:
• Interpersonal Work – to strengthen connection and empower you to be yourself using The 5 Secrets of Effective Communication
• Mindful Self-Compassion – to cultivate a gentler, kinder inner voice through the work of Dr. Kristin Neff
• Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) – to regulate the nervous system and support trauma recovery alongside cognitive tools for a well-rounded approach
10 Years Experience
Online in Rancho Penasquitos, CA
Growth and Change Counseling
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a control issue that is used to compensate for the fact that a person feels completely out of control. This disorder can have physiological consequences that can cause physical harm and results in lower seratonin levels in the body. As we support you in reducing anxiety and stresses and increasing your sense of control over multiple aspects of your life, you can begin to experience a reduction in your OCD tendencies and/or find it easier to manage them.
8 Years Experience
Online in Rancho Penasquitos, CA (Online Only)
Stuart Kaplowitz / Serene Pathways Counseling
Counselor/Therapist, MFT
Obsessions and compulsions connect to anxiety we may be feeling and we help with tools to better address what is underneath
33 Years Experience
Online in Rancho Penasquitos, CA
Life After Birth
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Lexi Berard, AMFT has training and experience in ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention), which is the gold standard for treating Perinatal OCD.
13 Years Experience
Online in Rancho Penasquitos, CA
Holly Hoffman, PsyD, Psychotherapy
Psychologist, Licensed Clinical Psychologist in CA & NY
I specialize in treating OCD using Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), the gold-standard, evidence-based approach for reducing obsessions and compulsions. Through ERP, we gradually and collaboratively face the thoughts, images, and situations that trigger anxiety, while resisting the urge to engage in rituals or avoidance behaviors. Alongside ERP, I integrate Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients develop greater psychological flexibility — learning how to make room for uncomfortable thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate their actions. My approach focuses not just on symptom reduction, but on building a life guided by personal values, even in the presence of uncertainty or fear.
13 Years Experience
Online in Rancho Penasquitos, CA
Dennis Sapire
Psychologist, JD PhD
I am CBT trained and have helped many clients overcome OCD using evidence-based approaches.
24 Years Experience
Online in Rancho Penasquitos, CA
Amanda Hagos, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, PPSC
We have clinicians that specialize in the treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and utilize Exposure Response Prevention therapy to support child, teen and adult clients in managing OCD symptoms and developing coping skills to increase peace.
8 Years Experience
Online in Rancho Penasquitos, CA
Wildflower Therapy Group
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, C-IAYT
At Wildflower Therapy Group, we support clients experiencing obsessive thoughts, compulsive patterns, and anxiety-driven cycles with care and understanding. Our therapists help clients build awareness, strengthen coping tools, and feel more supported as they work toward greater emotional flexibility, self-trust, and relief.
6 Years Experience
Online in Rancho Penasquitos, CA
Dr. Daniele Levy, Bay Area Cognitive Therapy
Psychologist, PhD, MBA
In treating OCD, I use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with a focus on exposure and response prevention (ERP). This involves gradually confronting fears without engaging in compulsive behaviors, helping clients break the cycle of obsession and compulsion. Together, we challenge the irrational thoughts that drive your OCD, developing healthier responses and promoting greater flexibility around your thoughts and behaviors. My goal is to help you reduce the power OCD has in your life, improving your ability to function with confidence and calm.
17 Years Experience
Online in Rancho Penasquitos, CA
Private Virtual Sessions with Tommy are Easy, Convenient & Effective * both Phone & Online Sessions available * 10am to 10pm / Mon-Sun
Counselor/Therapist, QHHT, RC, SC
Through Tommy's unique & effective Hypnotherapy & Energy Therapy + Breathing & Mediation Practices, 100s of Young Adults & Professional Clients have learned turn their OCD into their greatest asset & master themselves... Read real Client stories & experiences here:
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14 Years Experience
Online in Rancho Penasquitos, CA
Diaspora Therapy Group
Marriage and Family Therapist, DSW, LMFT
We provide evidence-based, trauma-informed support for OCD and intrusive thoughts. We help clients understand obsessive patterns, reduce distress, and build effective coping strategies while prioritizing safety and collaboration. Treatment is paced thoughtfully and tailored to individual needs.
7 Years Experience
Online in Rancho Penasquitos, CA
Dr. Shawn V Giammattei
Psychologist, PhD
This is a specialty of Dr. Giammattei's and he uses several modalities, such as CBT, Exposure, and SPACE, to help youth, adults, and families get the upper hand with OCD.
17 Years Experience
Online in Rancho Penasquitos, CA
Empowered Wellbeing, Decolonizing Intersectional and Integrative Complex Trauma & Dissociation Recovery Support
Life Coach, view my credentials online at: www.recoveringfromwithin.com/credentialslongform
OCD is interesting in that it could have trauma based origins, physiological origins, including epigenetic, or could be an adaptive response to something that is currently challenging. First is to decipher where the origin is as best as one can, in general an integrative and functional approach may work well, as it could be based in metabolic deficiency, for example.
Shared with care: in certain cases, we have witnessed it might evolve in people or communities where power abuse is rampant -- these compulsions can set in as ways to adapt to holding maladaptive and abusive thinking and distracting a person from the inhumanity and incoherence of the abusive thinking they have been groomed to take on. This is not written about from a hegemonic perspective, however decolonizing theory will find these challenges of OCD and even paranoia heightened in people or communities that habituate enacting atrocities. This is not trauma it is an expression of intensive moral injury and benefits from interrupting the moral injury and moving the person into ethical recovery of their humanity.
Contrapositively, trauma impactees may show OCD traits as a way of the mind distracting from torture or other forms of recurring harm psychologically (e.g repeated and intensive gaslighting), physically, sexually...etc. Here we would apply a trauma based approach to care along with Havening, Brainspotting and other ways to soothe a nervous system and restore mental networks as best we can/
Please feel free to ask if you have more questions.
15 Years Experience
Online in Rancho Penasquitos, CA (Online Only)
John Fry
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Learning how to self-calm better and how to fight the battle of the mind are very helpful for OCD issues.
49 Years Experience
Online in Rancho Penasquitos, CA
Gail Kirk Poust
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
OCD is a bully that takes your values hostage. It finds what you care about most (your loved ones' safety, your goodness, your faith, your relationship) and turns it into unwanted thoughts you can't shake and rituals you can't skip: checking, washing, confessing, mentally reviewing, asking for reassurance one more time. The relief never lasts, and the loop keeps tightening. Here's what I want you to know: intrusive thoughts are not intentions, and being horrified by a thought is proof of your values, not evidence against them. I treat OCD with ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention), the gold-standard approach. It is collaborative, paced, never sprung on you. I also treat postpartum OCD, where intrusive thoughts about your baby leave you terrified and silent. That, too, is treatable, and having the thought is not the same as being a danger. The thoughts have had the last word long enough.
12 Years Experience
Online in Rancho Penasquitos, CA (Online Only)
Monica M. Huston
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Obsessive-compulsive patterns often involve intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors that can feel difficult to control. I work with individuals to understand the underlying anxiety and internal pressure driving these cycles, rather than only focusing on symptom reduction. Therapy supports increased awareness, greater tolerance for uncertainty, and more flexibility in responding to distressing thoughts and urges.
9 Years Experience
Online in Rancho Penasquitos, CA
Dr. Jag Soni
Psychologist, Ph.D., HSPP, PCC, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
Living with the relentless cycle of OCD can make your world feel increasingly rigid and exhausting. With over 35 years of Ph.D. expertise, I provide a specialized, evidence-based approach to help you dismantle the internal mechanics of intrusive thoughts and compulsions. We work together to uncover the root drivers of your anxiety and foster the cognitive shifts necessary to reclaim your time and mental freedom. Through secure Telehealth, I offer an expert, non-judgmental space to move from a state of being "controlled" to one of clarity and agency. Reach out to schedule your first appointment.
36 Years Experience
Online in Rancho Penasquitos, CA (Online Only)
Higher Sights Counseling
Counselor/Therapist
OCD is very challenging, but very treatable. All of our therapists specialize in DBT and CBT with are proven to be effective in managing OCD. We have EMDR providers, IFS, Brainspotting, and art-therapy providers.
16 Years Experience
Online in Rancho Penasquitos, CA
OCD therapists in Rancho Penasquitos, California Statistics
OCD therapists in Rancho Penasquitos, California average 18 years of experience and charge around $227 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are OCD (100%), Anxiety or Fears (94%), and Depression (75%).
Average years in practice
18 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$227
Gender ID
| 53% |
Female |
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| 37% |
Male |
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| 5% |
Non-Binary |
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| 5% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 58% |
In Person and Online |
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| 42% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | OCD |
| 94% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 75% | Depression |
| 67% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 66% | Social Anxiety |
| 64% | Loss or Grief |
| 64% | Stress |