Are you looking for effective therapy to overcome Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)? Are you suffering from OCD and feel stuck in an exhausting cycle of obsessive thoughts and compulsions?
Maybe you’re finding everyday tasks daunting and overwhelming because of the stress and anxiety they can provoke as they draw you into unwanted OCD thoughts and responses.
If you are looking for effective therapy for OCD you might be wondering what the best treatment for OCD is, and if hypnotherapy for OCD can help you to overcome OCD for good.
Perhaps you know that your obsessive thoughts, compulsive behaviours, and accompanying fears are irrational, yet you just can’t seem to stop them, and the anxiety can be overwhelming.
OCD can range from mildly inconvenient, to causing extreme distress and anxiety, and it can limit many areas of your life. it;s a conditon that can be very much misunderstood or underestimated.
Sadly, many people have lived with OCD for many years, feeling too ashamed or guilty to tell anyone about it because they fear others won't understand, until it becomes intolerable.
Although you may have had OCD for a long time, it can be overcome with the right approach for you. I use highly effective techniques to help people to overcome anxiety issues of all kinds, including any type of OCD.
I have had personal experience of having severe OCD myself many years ago and overcame it on my own using only natural techniques and processes.
As an anxiety disorder and OCD specialist I have helped many people to overcome OCD with OCD hypnotherapy combined with other tools and techniques. If you are looking for OCD treatment without medication, that’s gentle and holistic, yet highly effective, I can help.
What is OCD?
OCD is an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive, repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and the urge to perform repetitive behaviours (compulsions) to try to neutralise the fearful, obsessional thoughts. The compulsions give temporary relief from anxiety, but the anxiety and the obsession soon returns, often with more intensity. Some people have obsessional thoughts, which gives them a lot of anxiety and torment, without obvious external compulsive behaviours (Pure O).
OCD thoughts and behaviours can be very time consuming and interfere with your daily activities, relationships, and general well-being. The mental and emotional stress, and the way that OCD can lead you to limit your life can sometimes lead to depression for some people.
Symptoms of OCD
The anxious state combined with obsessional thoughts and compulsive behaviours are the symptoms of OCD, and these can be experienced and expressed in a multitude of forms and variations. Because people who have OCD are usually in a highly anxious state, they can also be experiencing many symptoms of anxiety or generalised anxiety disorder. High levels of anxiety may also sometimes lead to panic attacks for some people.
Effective OCD treatment
Through my holistic, integrated approach, tailored to you, I provide effective therapy for OCD.
I address the issues that underlie your anxiety and the fear that fuel’s your OCD. I also use and give you effective strategies to disrupt and be less reactive to your obsessive thoughts, and much more easily be able to resist the compulsions so that the thoughts and compulsions no longer have power over you.
You may have tried CBT and exposure and response prevention (ERP), and although they can be effective to some extent for some people, it can be a very long process, and ERP in particular can be very tough and unpleasant.
The techniques that I use are much gentler and are more effective at helping you to get rapid and lasting relief and helping you to be free from OCD. Although it will still involve a form of exposure, it is much more pleasant, comfortable, and effective for quick and lasting recovery from OCD.
I use a combination of effective therapies and techniques, including hypnotherapy, EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), and other techniques to calm your anxiety and to help you break OCD patterns, for effective and empowering long term recovery from OCD.
I also give you a range of tools techniques to help yourself too, so that you will have your own way of helping yourself to be calm and in control, and to learn to overcome OCD for the long term.
In my therapy for OCD, and for any other issues, all sessions are bespoke and tailored to you
Types of OCD
Although there are infinite forms of OCD, there are five main categories, with themes often overlapping between categories.
- Repetitively checking
- Fear of contamination / Mental Contamination
- Symmetry and ordering
- Anxiety provoking Intrusive Thoughts and ruminations
- Hoarding
I provide effective therapy for all types and variations of OCD and intrusive thoughts. As someone who used to have OCD, I have a good understanding of how OCD works, and work with non-judgment and compassion.
Experiencing OCD?
If you are experiencing any kind of OCD, please know that it is something that you can overcome. If you are wondering how I can help you, please get in touch.
Hypnotherapy for OCD
In combination with other therapies that I use, hypnotherapy for OCD can help you to reduce to your level of reactivity to obsessive or intrustive thoughts and reduce your anxiety, as well as help with many other aspects of OCD.
Hypnotherapy is a powerful tool for accessing the subconscious mind, which is one of the things that makes hypnotherapy for OCD so effective, and there are many other benefits of hypnotherapy for OCD too.
By guiding you into a state of deep relaxation, this helps to calm any anxious feelings and thoughts, and calms your nervous system.
Using hypnotherapy for OCD, in combination with other therapy techniques tailored to you, we can work together to reframe negative thought patterns and help you to form new healthy neuro pathways and patterns of thinking and responding to thoughts and situations.
With hypnotherapy for OCD, and hypnotherapy processes in general, we can also boost your self-esteem, and help you to develop a state of inner calm, and confidence in managing your thoughts and compulsions.
I have helped many people to overcome OCD through both online hypnotherapy for OCD, and in person hypnotherapy for OCD.
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) for OCD
EFT, also known as tapping, is a highly effective way of releasing negative emotions and the fears that fuel your OCD. EFT Tapping for OCD can help you in many ways to overcome OCD. EFT is very good for helping you to release anxiety fuelling your OCD, and it is really good for getting to and addressing root causes for any issue.
By tapping on specific meridian points while focusing on the specific issue at hand, you can experience rapid relief from anxiety, stress, and other emotional issues. This can also help you to reduce your anxiety around your thoughts, helping you to feel more comfortable with them, and making it much easier to resist the compulsions and start to form new ways of responding to triggers.
If the tapping starts to become a new compulsion for you there are always ways to work around that. and all sessions are tailored to you.
As with all the other therapies and techiques I use, online EFT sessions for OCD, and for any other issue, work just as well as in person.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) for OCD
NLP therapy for OCD is effective in many ways for helping you to overcome OCD.
I use many NLP processes and techniques that are highly effective for helping you to overcome OCD in ways that help you to feel much more empowered.
Among other things, NLP can help you to change how you think to more empowering ways. It does so more effectively than CBT as it works with both your conscious and unconsious mind. NLP also helps you to change disempowering states, such as anxiety, to more empowering states.
We can use various practical strategies and techniques to guide you in changing negative thought processes and behaviours. I can help you to identify and release limiting beliefs that underlie your fears, reframe negative thoughts, and create new, empowering patterns of behaviour.
NLP is highly effective at helping you to change your leaned fearful responses to particular triggers, and create more helpful and empowering ways to respond instead.
A compulsion is a learned response to a particular trigger, and I can guide you to teach your brain to break the circuitry and create a more helpful response to the trigger instead.
Time Line Therapy® is a highly effective development of NLP and can also be used as part of the process to help you to overcome OCD. It helps you to release negative emotions and beliefs that may be fuelling your intrustive, fearful thoughts and so then enable you to more easily resist the compulsions.
OCD Therapy in Luton and Harpenden
Bespoke OCD treatment therapy sessions are available in person in Luton, Bedfordshire and Harpenden, Hertfordshire. If you are looking therapy for OCD in Bedfordshire or therapy for OCD in Hertfordshire, I'd be happy to help.
OCD Therapy Online
Online therapy for OCD is also available and works just as well as in person.
If you are looking for an OCD therapist online or in person, please get in touch if you would like to have a free initial conversation to find out more.
Free 20 minute telephone consultation
If you have questions you would like me to answer or would like to know more about how I can help you, I offer a free 20 minute telephone consultation.