Posts by Jen Lescher, LCSW/LICSW

By Jen Lescher, LCSW/LICSW People with OCD ruminate. A lot. I think it is the hardest part of the disorder because rumination leads to more compulsive behavior, more distress, and it can feel impossible to stop. I’ve talked about rumination many times in my blog posts, but it really does deserve this much attention because…

By Jen Lescher, LCSW/LICSW In my experience, being fearful of being a bad person is a common obsession for people with OCD. We can see this fear play out in many different OCD subtypes, such as harm OCD, pedophilia OCD, relationship OCD, contamination OCD (when the fear is about contaminating others), and of course moral…

By: Jen Lescher, LCSW/LICSW In my last post, I began writing about arguably the most important part of Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for Relationship OCD (ROCD): response prevention. What is Response Prevent in ERP? Response prevention is how we resist doing rituals or compulsions when OCD is triggered during or after a planned or…

In my last two posts, I discussed Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for ROCD (relationship OCD). I summarized how exposures work in ERP and began to discuss how response prevention works to address compulsions. Response prevention is arguably the most difficult and most important part of ERP, which is why I want to spend more…

In my last post, I gave a VERY brief description of how exposures work in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD. You can check that out here: What Treatment Looks Like When Doubt Feels Constant (part one). ERP for Relationship OCD (ROCD) does not look different from using ERP for other OCD subtypes because…

By Jen Lescher, LCSW/LICSW Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is considered the gold-standard treatment for OCD. What that means is we have decades of research showing that about 60-80% of people with OCD experience significant symptom reduction and/or recovery when they receive proper ERP treatment. ERP has been used as the first-line treatment for OCD…