How to Help Someone With OCD: 10 Effective Strategies
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
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
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
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
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...
DTI for OCD Diagnosis and Treatment
DTI for OCD Diagnosis and Treatment Introduction Imagine meeting someone and feeling their anxiety ripple through your hands. That’s what I sensed when I first met Emma, a client with severe OCD. She described intrusive thoughts so vivid that they erased her peace....
5 Essential Insights on OCD and Keeping Apologising
5 Essential Insights on OCD and Keeping Apologising Well, imagine you’re at a small dinner party in Edinburgh. You drop a fork. You pick it up. Immediately, you say sorry. You do it again. And again. You can’t stop. You feel awful if you don’t...
7 Inspiring Insights on Common Obsessions in R-OCD
7 Inspiring Insights on Common Obsessions in R-OCD Introduction Well, picture this… I’m sitting across from a client in my Edinburgh practice. Her hands are curled tightly around a mug of tea, eyes darting to the floor as she finally speaks up. “I...
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