How to Help Someone With OCD: 10 Effective Strategies I arranged a session with a couple who’d been fighting the same invisible battle for years. He was exhausted from checking the front door ten, twenty, even thirty times a night. She was worn out from keeping watch...
IOCDF BTTI Training: Transforming My OCD Therapy Journey I remember logging off on 24 February, the session window finally closed, my desk still scattered with notes and half-drunk coffee. Four days earlier, I’d clicked into the International OCD Foundation’s...
ERP Therapy: 7 Effective Strategies for OCD and GAD Introduction – Emma’s Story and the Turning Point I still remember the first time Emma came to see me in my Edinburgh office. She walked in clutching her coffee cup so tightly you’d think it was the only thing...
Just-Right OCD: 7 Uplifting Facts to Embrace Balance I still remember the first time a client told me, “I know it’s silly, but I can’t leave the kitchen until every mug handle is facing exactly the same way.” She laughed when she said it, but...
Overcoming OCD: The Need for Time, Patience and Consistency Hello, I’m Federico Ferrarese, a CBT therapist based in Edinburgh, specialising in OCD treatment. Let me tell you about someone I once worked with—we’ll call her Sophie. Sophie couldn’t leave her house...
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