Seeing Failure as an Opportunity
January is the month of goals. New Year, New You! Screw that. There’s so much pressure to make big, sweeping changes. No wonder most resolutions only last 2 weeks. While
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7 Tips to Get Through the Holidays
It’s December. It’s not my favorite time of the year. Here in Northeast Ohio, the days are shorter, leaving us in darkness more often. It’s cold. And, of course, there
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OCD in Real Life: Yes, You Can Recover
For OCD Week, I posted some real-life stories of people with obsessive compulsive disorder who’ve experienced recovery. They’re my clients, and each has worked with me using exposure and response
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder vs. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
I’ve been a therapist more than 20 years, and I can still get tripped up teasing out generalized anxiety disorder from obsessive compulsive disorder (and many times people have both).
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10 Things to Know About Therapy
I’m going to preface this article with making sure we all know my perspective. I’m a licensed therapist who specializes in treating adults with anxiety disorders and obsessive compulsive disorder.
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7 Ways to Practice Building Your Distress Tolerance
As we continue our journey into distress tolerance, I want to give you actions that help illustrate what it means in everyday life. Most anxiety relief tips actually give you
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OCD & Coming Out of the Pandemic
A recent CNN article caught my attention: OCD isn’t just about being a neat freak. And for those with it, this next stage of the pandemic may be hard. I’ve
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What Are You Teaching Your Brain?
In your brain, there’s this area called the amygdala. Understanding the amygdala is important when we talk about anxiety and OCD because this little cluster is your body’s alarm system.
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Setbacks in OCD Recovery
Has someone ever told you, “you’ll have to live with your OCD forever?” It’s one of my pet peeves. First of all, it’s not true. Second of all, it doesn’t
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5 Reasons Why Taking Pics of Your Stove Is a Terrible Idea
As I was getting ready to leave for vacation, this article appeared in my feed: Why You Should Always Take a Photo of Your Stove Before You Go on Vacation.
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Imposter Syndrome: Men Feel It Too
The concept of imposter syndrome was originated by psychologists Pauline Rose Clance, PhD and Suzanne Imes, PhD in 1978. They called it “imposter phenomenon,” and their study focused on women
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Anxiety & OCD in Men
When most people think about anxiety, they probably inherently think women. When some men think about therapy, they picture mining their past and endlessly talking about “how they feel about
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