Mental Health
What to Expect From OCD Counseling in Boston, MA: A Step-by-Step Introduction to Healing
By: Jen Lescher, LCSW/LICSW If you’ve been diagnosed with OCD — or even if you suspect you might have it — it’s important to work with a therapist who’s trained to treat OCD. The evidence-based treatments for OCD are ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention), ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), and/or ICBT (Inference-Based CBT). Many OCD…
Read MoreWhat Is ERP? How a Therapist in Boston, MA Uses Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD
By: Jen Lescher, LCSW/LICSW ERP therapy stands for Exposure and Response Prevention therapy, and it’s considered the gold standard treatment for OCD. If you’ve been learning about OCD, my guess is this is something you already know. But what exactly is it? How does it work? And why does it work? Let’s break it down,…
Read MoreOCD and Dating Don’t Have to Be a Nightmare: What Therapy in Boston, MA Offers for Relationship-Related Anxiety
By: Jen Lescher, LCSW/LICSW Just like no two people are the same, no two relationships are the same—and no two experiences of OCD are the same either. That’s because we all come from different backgrounds. We have different traumas, cultures, families, life experiences, TV shows we’ve seen, conversations we’ve had, experiences with health, sex, money—you…
Read MoreWhy Rumination Feels Necessary in OCD and How Therapy in Boston, MA Helps
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 it is such a…
Read MoreWhat If I’m a Bad Person?: A Common Fear People Bring Into OCD Therapy
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 OCD, often called moral…
Read MoreWhat ERP for ROCD Really Teaches About Love and Anxiety
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…
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