ERP THERAPY ONLINE – OCD THERAPIST
OCD and Intrusive Thoughts for Adults
If you have reached our page, you, like many others, are experiencing difficulties with intrusive thoughts and likely OCD. Or you may be trying to find information on Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD for a loved one who may be experiencing these difficulties.
What does ERP involve?
ERP stands for: Exposure and Response Prevention.
ERP helps you gradually face the thoughts, images, sensations, emotions, or situations that trigger your OCD, while practising not doing the compulsions that normally follow.
Over time, your brain learns something life-changing:
- You can feel discomfort without escaping it
- You can experience uncertainty without neutralising it
- And the anxiety fades naturally, without rituals
Finding the right information and right help, from a UK accredited and registered Online Therapist for ERP and CBT Online therapist for OCD, is crucial, and it is available regardless of where you are.
Breaking the OCD Cycle: Why Short-Term Relief Keeps You Stuck
When we talk about OCD recovery, one of the hardest truths to accept is this: the things you do to feel better in the moment are often the very things that keep the OCD cycle alive.
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Avoidance
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Reassurance seeking
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Checking behaviours
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Washing, cleaning, straightening, throwing things away, tapping, repeating actions
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Mental compulsions: blocking thoughts, replacing them, repeating phrases, mentally”getting rid” of an image
Why ERP Helps You Break the Loop
Habituation
Getting used to a stimulus or trigger
Extinction
Reducing the response to a stimulus or trigger, and therefore not feeding into the pattern
Learning
Knowing that what we thought would happen is very unlikely to actually happen we can also over learn this!
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Three simple steps from your first booking to a personalised treatment plan.
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How do I know if I can benefit from EMDR?
EMDR is a well-researched therapy initially designed for trauma. It differs from other therapies because it can be delivered using very little language. It is effective even when not disclosing your trauma to your therapist, this is called the “Silence Protocol”. This is ideal for high levels of shame.
It can also be used with other difficulties such as anxiety and peak performance.
EMDR can use imagery and be integrated with other approaches easily.
How do I know if I can benefit from CBT?
CBT is a well know therapy that is effective sleep, anxiety, trauma and performance.
It is an active therapy and it focusses in the maintaining factors of the difficulties.
CBT involves ERP, which is the gold standard therapy for OCD.
It also can be used with other difficulties such as anxiety and peak performance.
EMDR can use imagery and be integrated with other approaches easily.
Do I need to prepare before therapy?
No, you don’t. However, we always recommend for people to reflect on what they want to take from sessions and/or what they would like to work on.
How much will therapy cost?
Therapy can last from 4 to 6 sessions for some people, and usually can take 8 to 14 sessions to work on specific areas. Sometimes, in complex cases session may be 20 to 30.
We are all individuals so best option would be to speak to one of our Mental Health Specialists.
