OCD therapists in Newcastle under Lyme, England
Browse OCD therapists in Newcastle under Lyme, England, United Kingdom. Compare credentials, specialties and therapeutic approach. Contact a therapist to learn more.
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.
13 Years Experience
In-Person Near Newcastle under Lyme, ENG
Online in Newcastle under Lyme, England
OCD
Heather Macfarlane
Registered Psychotherapist, Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist
OCD is a complex, overwhelming condition but there are proven techniques to help reset your brain and thought patterns to let go of those compulsions because continuing to give in to them only pulls you deeper down. I can provide and understanding, supportive environment for you to tentatively take the steps to challenging those obsessions and compulsions once and for all.
17 Years Experience
Online in Newcastle under Lyme, England (Online Only)
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.
17 Years Experience
Online in Newcastle under Lyme, England
OCD
Ummayah Sidhu
Counsellor/Therapist, Ummayah Sidhu | BACP Accredited Psychotherapist | Identity & Heritage Specialist
OCD can make your own thoughts feel like an enemy. We will use evidence-based approaches to understand your intrusive thoughts and compulsions, working to reduce their power over your daily choices and anxiety levels.
10 Years Experience
Online in Newcastle under Lyme, England (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
14 Years Experience
Online in Newcastle under Lyme, England
Newcastle-under-Lyme is a Staffordshire town immediately adjacent to Stoke-on-Trent and home to Keele University, giving it a dual character as both a university community and a post-industrial town with areas of significant economic deprivation tied to the same industrial decline that has affected the wider Potteries area. Keele University's student counselling service and psychology research programmes contribute to the local mental health landscape, and North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust provides NHS mental health services to the area. The town benefits from its university connection in terms of the range of private therapy services available locally and the younger demographic that academic employment attracts, while many residents in more deprived communities face the same barriers to care common across post-industrial north Staffordshire. Common therapy concerns include student mental health, economic stress, anxiety, depression, and the identity challenges of a town closely linked to and affected by the decline of its neighbour Stoke-on-Trent.
OCD therapists in Newcastle under Lyme, England Statistics
OCD therapists in Newcastle under Lyme, England average 14 years of experience and charge around ¤133 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (59%), Integrative Therapy (56%), and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) (44%).
Average years in practice
14 Years Experience
Average cost per session
¤133
Accept insurance
53%
Offer sliding scale
44%
Gender ID
| 54% |
Female |
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| 43% |
Male |
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| 3% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 62% |
In Person and Online |
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| 38% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 59% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 56% | Integrative Therapy |
| 44% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
| 41% | Behavioral Therapy |
| 34% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 31% | Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) |
| 31% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
Ages Served
| 97% | Adult |
| 66% | Young Adult |
| 63% | Senior |
| 63% | Teen |
| 25% | Children |
Client Focus
| 56% | Women |
| 50% | LGBTQ+ |
| 41% | Men |
| 38% | Asian |
| 38% | Black / African American |