We all experience fear, but sometimes the line between worry and obsession can be challenging to assess and navigate alone. Parkdale Therapy Group supports individuals and families experiencing prolonged anxiety and/or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. 

Obsessions are ideas, thoughts, or images that continually preoccupy or intrude on a person's mind. Compulsions are an almost irresistible urge to behave in a certain way, especially against one’s conscious wishes. Obsessions relate to personal fears, and compulsions are misguided attempts to solve these fears. Instead of solving, however, compulsions strengthen the obsessions and create a vicious cycle.

Since each person has distinct fears, OCD looks different from person to person. OCD often shares more general difficulties with accepting uncertainty and doubt related to intense fears, spending excessive time ruminating over obsessions or acting on them compulsively, and having urges to repeat in the form of checking, ordering, avoiding, counting, tics, or mental rituals.

Treatment begins through a slow recognition of your unique compulsions. We work backwards to find how to do the opposite of your obsessive triggers. We further support recovery by helping you find separation from any identity in OCD or prolonged worries. We also provide long-term tools with emotional regulation, using personal values, and strategies with mindfulness