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Of all the states with the top OCD specialists MA and NY seem to be on the top of the list. We found many therapists who said they had experience, but they didn’t. Try a residential treatment center in Boston if your insurance will cover it. Save yourself the agony of weekly trips to an office to find out the therapist only went to a weekend seminar on OCD. ERP needs to be practiced needed daily if not hourly
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u can look for telehealth providers on the IOCDF website!
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that’s where i found mine
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A former therapist of mine recommended going on psychology today and filtering for ocd and erp and looking for people in my area who specialized in both. The options ended up being limited but I ended up with a really great psychologist in the end so I’d recommend looking there too.
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Ask for a free 20-minute phone consult, and drill them. Tell them what you liked and didn’t like about previous therapists. Tell them what your issue is, and what treatment you’re interested in trying (ERP, ACT, etc.). Ask them to guess how many hours they’ve spent treating OCD patients. And, I personally suggest someone who has been practicing for a long time. I tried interns because they were cheaper, but then changed tactics and looked for older and more experienced people. They bring so much wisdom to the table. I have no insurance. I explained to my current therapist in that first phone call, “Look. You were recommended to me. Paying for this will cost me about 1/3 of my monthly income. I need to know if it’s worth it.” And the guy is a sweetheart and lowered his rate for me even though he doesn’t advertise as a sliding scale. And, my father and friends helped pay for it in the beginning until I was able to take over the cost. Ask questions. Ask many questions. Advocate for yourself.
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Has anyone else had a rough start? I’m 4 sessions in and have had no actual ERP work happen, I have 2 different therapists because none have availability to meet 2 times a week. Both those therapists are not available for the next 2 weeks so now I’m going to see a new 3rd one. Each time I’ve seen a new therapist I feel like the whole first session is spent with them re explaining everything. I’m paying for this out of pocket because they don’t accept Tricare which is my insurance as a Retired Marine. So I’m 960 in, and honestly feel worse than when I started. I get zero suggestions on what to do between sessions and feel so incomplete after my session finishes. I feel like I’ve gotten more help asking chat gpt questions on EPR and how to deal with ROCD than I do in my sessions . Does anyone have any insight or helpful advice here?
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Is it normal to think your therapist does not know how to treat ocd? What is a good therapist in ocd?
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Hi! I’m trying to say this story as short as possible. I started realizing I was having an ocd flare up a long time ago and I chose private psychotherapy because I thought it would be better. I had a bunch of other issues and I wanted one quick (I had tried 2 before) and when I met someone that I felt was kind of okay I trusted them with my ocd. The thing was that she was NOT specialized in ocd, in fact, looking back I realize that she barely knew how to handle it at all. I had a really good one when I was younger and I was not having symptoms when I quit years ago, so it surprised me a LOT that all I had learned got unlearned because I trusted a bad psychologist. I have currently Rocd and a bit of compulsive staring as well, plus tricomania. I really really want to warn you, DON’T LET A NON OCD SPECIALIST GIVE YOU ADVICE OR ERP!!!!! It has taken me a while to realize all the damage she did. But I was so desperate for a solution at the time that I ignored the signs. She had no idea what she was doing and she actually asked me what we should do! She also made my staring worse, because she told me to try to not look (which is actually wrong), she also asked me if I was really in love with my partner, EVEN THOUGH I HAD NO DOUBTS AT THE TIME!!! She thought that I actually wanted sex with someone else and was like yeah it’s normal some people do that, instead of understanding my feelings and that I actually didn’t want to, but it was an intrusive thought. (It was very different from the classic: you know what maybe maybe not erp thing) She misunderstood everything and I now have to rewire my brain.
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