Online OCD therapists in United Kingdom
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OCD
Aleksandra Pamphlett - Cert. Coach & Psychologist
Life Coach, MAC, MSc, BSc Hons,
Living with OCD can be a challenging and isolating experience, but you don't have to face it alone. As a specialized psychologist, I am dedicated to providing support and guidance to individuals navigating the complexities of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Together, we'll explore personalized strategies to manage intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors, fostering a sense of control and relief. My approach combines evidence-based interventions with a compassionate understanding of the unique nuances of OCD.
11 Years Experience
Online in Germany, Ireland, United Kingdom
(Online Only)
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Dr Pointer | OCD Specialist
Psychologist, BSc (Hons), M.St. (Oxon), PsychD (Surrey), Dip CBH. C.Psychol AFBPsS HCPC reg.
I experienced OCD from an early age, & have since recovered. I would like to help you recover from OCD, too.
23 Years Experience
Online in United Kingdom
(Online Only)
OCD
Peter Dutton
Registered Psychotherapist, Psychotherapist, Life Coach, Sports Performance Psychologist. Registered BACP Member
OCD can be a very controlling part of your life, I help you to accept these parts of you allowing them to disperse
13 Years Experience
In-Person in Chelmsford, England CM2 7PX
Online in United Kingdom
OCD
Gemma Autumn
Counsellor/Therapist, Integrative Adult and Adolescent Counsellor Cert, PgDip, MBACP Accredited
I work with those suffering from OCD.
9 Years Experience
In-Person in London, England
Online in United Kingdom
OCD
Jonathan Livingstone Therapy & Coaching
Psychologist, MSc, MA, PGCE, GMBPsS
OCD, whether it relates to behaviour or to thinking, is driven by feelings. I will help you to identify where these feelings come from in your biography, and resolve the experiences that created them. With the resolution of the origins of the problem, you will no longer be subject to the OCD behaviour.
27 Years Experience
In-Person in Stourbridge, England DY8 3RZ
Online in United Kingdom
OCD
Jayne LESLEY Allen
Therapist, MIBWRT(AC and Coach, TFT DX, NLP Practioner and Coach, Hypnotherapist
Living with obsessive thoughts or compulsive behaviours can feel exhausting and isolating. OCD isn’t a lack of willpower—it’s a pattern wired into the brain that can be shifted with the right support. In our work together, I draw on neuroscience-based therapies, BWRT®, and practical coaching strategies to help calm intrusive thoughts, reduce compulsions, and create new, healthier pathways in the mind. Alongside this, practices such as mindfulness and energy work can support you in finding greater balance, self-compassion, and peace of mind. Together, we’ll work at both the conscious and subconscious level so you can reclaim a sense of freedom and control in your life.
15 Years Experience
In-Person in Kirkliston, Scotland EH29 9AX
In-Person in Edinburgh, Scotland EH12 5AP
Online in France, Netherlands, United Kingdom
OCD
Christine Halden
Psychologist, PsyBA, Grad dip, MAPS.
I help individuals break free from the grip of obsessive thoughts and compulsive patterns using evidence-based approaches that promote lasting relief and resilience.
7 Years Experience
In-Person in Richmond, VIC 3121
In-Person in East Melbourne, VIC 3002
Online in Australia, United Kingdom, California, New York
OCD
Chris Chicoteau
Counsellor/Therapist, Master of Counselling, IFS Level 2
Gain insight into the OCD and address any of the unwanted consequences of the condition.
15 Years Experience
In-Person in Bulimba, QLD 4171
Online in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom
OCD
Wellbeing Centre London
Registered Psychotherapist, Psychotherapy, Counselling, Psychology, CBT, EMDR and Therapy, Coaching
We provide effective OCD counselling and therapy.
15 Years Experience
OCD
Janine & ComposurePsychology Team
Psychologist, Chartered Clinical Psychologist, HCPC & BPS registered, DClinPsy, CSAccred.(AAC), MPhil (cantab)
While all of our team members are able to help with OCD, two Clinical Psychologists at ComposurePsychology have an interest in and many years experience in helping people with OCD. We draw from evidence based therapies including; CBT, ACT, CFT, SFT, DBT, EMDR, systemic, narrative, psychodynamic and others.
12 Years Experience
In-Person in London, England W1G 9QN
In-Person in Surrey, England
Online in France, Spain, United Kingdom
OCD
Eric C Bettelheim
Registered Psychotherapist, PhD, MSc., J.D., M.A. A.B. Member: BACP, BPC.
OCD can be substantially reduced both by a combination of managed exposure and psychotherapy.
3 Years Experience
In-Person in London, England W8 6PA
Online in United Kingdom
OCD
Gordon Wax BA HONS MBACP
Counsellor/Therapist, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
I help people to understand and manage their compulsive nature so that they can function in different ways with out the need to depend on particular behaviours.
12 Years Experience
In-Person in Manchester, England M15 4JY
In-Person in London, England
Online in Germany, Spain, United Kingdom
OCD
Sara Aicart-Pendlebury
Art Therapist, Human Givens Practitioner (HG.Dip.P), Member of Human Givens Institute, IFS therapist Levels 1&2, Narm Practitioner
OCD is a highly upsetting condition in which a sufferer experiences powerful, intrusive and distressing thoughts or images, usually connected with an imagined disastrous event (perhaps that one’s son will die in a car crash), and devises one or many rituals designed to reduce or ward off that event or make reparation for having the ‘bad’ thought. Usually, the more the rituals are carried out, the more the thoughts recur, requiring yet more rituals.
The condition first occurs because of raised stress levels, often as a result of trauma, physical illness, worry, fear, lack of sleep, some personal setback or crisis, or even a fright. People who develop the compulsion to wash their hands, and who often end up spending many hours a day in this activity, may first have experienced a generalised anxiety about their health or safety and then focused on a fear of germs. The bottom line is that some important emotional need is not being met. That’s why the human givens approach, which focuses on helping people in distress find healthy ways to meet their emotional needs, is so successful.
Rituals can be extremely varied and numerous, may involve walking across a room a certain way, picking up cutlery a certain way, counting or clapping a set number of times, etc, and have to be carried out in exactly the right way, otherwise the whole sequence must be begun again. Yet many sufferers are amazingly resourceful in hiding their condition.
What happens in OCD is that a primitive part of the brain, called the amygdala, which is our emotional alarm system, starts to associate the thinking of the OCD thought with danger, setting a stress reaction in train which leads the sufferer to carry out the ritual to avert the danger and reduce the stress. Sufferers are convinced that something dreadful will happen if they don’t complete their rituals, however many times they are required to do them. When they are caught up in this thinking and carrying out the rituals, they are in a trance state, just like a dream. And, just as our dreams seem totally real and believable to us when we are in them, so the trance state of OCD is equally compelling and believable to sufferers. They are, therefore, absolutely terrified about stopping their rituals.
It is essential to help a sufferer see that they are separate from the OCD – a lot of people choose to call it ‘the bully’, as a means of starting to see it as something outside of themselves. This helps them take a step back and begin to identify OCD thoughts (“if I don’t make and re-make the bed 10 times immediately, my daughter will be abducted on her way home from school”) as very different from normal thoughts. To help them to resist performing the rituals associated with the intrusive thoughts, they need to have distracting activities prepared, which they can launch into instantly – for instance, singing, dancing to music, doing the ironing, calling a friend, taking a walk; the activities need to be varied, so that a new ritual isn’t established.
The more that the OCD sufferer does not carry out the ritual after experiencing the thought, and realises that nothing terrible does happen, the more the rational part of the brain can override the nervy messages from the amygdala. As time goes on, and the messages continue not to be acted on, the thoughts start to fade and stop altogether.
This is not easy for sufferers to put into practice, of course, because they believe so strongly in the power of the ritual. Human givens practitioners use an effective technique to help resolve trauma, if one exists. They also use techniques to encourage them, while deeply relaxed, to visualise themselves, as if on a TV screen, experiencing the frightening thought but not carrying out the appeasement ritual and calmly doing something else instead, such as making a cup of tea or doing the washing-up. Going through this, in a calm state, in the imagination helps instruct the brain to respond this way in reality.
Just as important, human givens practitioners help sufferers identify what is lacking in their lives (it is quite common, for instance, for sufferers to have ceased to have a social or work life, because the rituals are so demanding) and help them to get their needs met in fulfilling ways.
16 Years Experience
In-Person in Chamonix, France
Online in France, United Kingdom
OCD
CJJPR
Counsellor/Therapist, (Dip.Couns)
We provide specialised support and therapy for individuals living with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), offering compassionate, evidence-based interventions to help manage intrusive thoughts, compulsive behaviours, and anxiety. Our team has extensive experience and in-depth knowledge in supporting clients with OCD symptoms, including checking behaviours, repetitive rituals, contamination fears, and obsessive thinking patterns.
Our therapy focuses on developing effective coping strategies, reducing the impact of compulsions on daily life, and addressing the underlying psychological triggers that contribute to OCD. Through personalised interventions, we help clients regain control over their thoughts and behaviours, improve emotional resilience, and enhance overall mental wellbeing.
Whether you are searching for OCD therapy near me, counselling for obsessive-compulsive disorder, support for compulsive behaviours, or help managing intrusive thoughts, our professional team provides tailored, evidence-based guidance designed to promote long-term recovery, emotional balance, and improved quality of life.
21 Years Experience
In-Person in London, England
In-Person in Southampton, England
Online in Ireland, United Kingdom, Florida
OCD
Valerie Fearon
Licensed Professional Counsellor, CBT, Mindfulness, Counselling, Inner Child Truma
The Therapy I would use for clients with OCD would be. CBT. This Therapy help clients to focuses on identifying and changing negative feelings about themselves, to help them to change unhelpful responses and behaviour. And also encouraged them what treatment can help, so they can see a significant improvement in their OCD.
10 Years Experience
In-Person in London, ENG
Online in Australia, United Kingdom
OCD
Nicole Rolls
Counsellor/Therapist, PG Dip, MA, BACP Accred, EMDR Accred, 20 years experience as a Therapist
OCD can lead you through depressed or manic states. Together we will try to find ways of holding those states as best as you can in greater awareness of what is happening to you
20 Years Experience
In-Person in Sutton, ENG
Online in United Kingdom
OCD
Empowered Wellbeing, Trauma/Complex Trauma (CPTSD), Dissociation and Addiction Recovery Care
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.
14 Years Experience
Online in United Kingdom, California
(Online Only)
OCD
The PsychoTRAUMA Clinic (Convergence College of Psychotherapy)
Registered Psychotherapist, Rev, DD (hon), DMin, Various Dips & Certs.
OCD is often very difficult as the intrusive thoughts are so entrenched. But we have ways to help you deal with these things. Obsessions and thought processes may be challenged and sensitively adjusted in time.
30 Years Experience
OCD
Mary Knoblock, DNH
Hypnotherapist, DNH, RTT Practitioner, Hypnotist, Holistic Naturopath Practitioner, Spiritual Counselor
We can use RTT and hypnosis to help understand your OCD patterns and work to alleviate them.
10 Years Experience
Online in Switzerland, United Kingdom, Multiple States
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