OCD and anxiety
The checking, the asking, the thought that will not leave until you have done something about it. There is a specific kind of therapy for this, in JLT.
What to expect
How it tends to start
In short
Reasoning your way out of it is usually the first thing anyone tries, often for years. That is not what the first part asks of you.
- Who it's for
- Adults and teenagers
- Session
- 50 minutes
- Where
- The clinic in JLT
- Languages
- English, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu
- Approaches
- ERP, CBT, ACT, and more
A free 15-minute call
Informal, and with a licensed psychologist. Three or four broad questions about what has been going on — enough to point you at the right person, not enough to need preparing for.
Matched to a clinician
On what you are bringing, your age, the language you would rather speak it in, and who has the training for it.
A plan you can see
Where things are more complicated, the work starts with an assessment before a treatment plan is agreed. What follows is structured work on those patterns rather than an open-ended conversation.
What people bring to it
- Intrusive thoughts you would not say out loud
- Checking, counting, and undoing
- Health anxiety
- Panic attacks, and the fear of the next one
- Social anxiety and phobias
- Needing reassurance, and needing it again
Who you’d be sitting with
Therapy starts with finding the right therapist. Our team cover a range of therapeutic approaches.
Now showing Dr Christian Perrin, Chartered Psychologist | Founder & Director
Questions people ask
The ones that come up most often before a first appointment.
Exposure and Response Prevention. It works on the patterns rather than on the thoughts themselves — the avoiding, the checking, the asking for reassurance, the not being able to sit with not knowing.
No. The same specialists work with health anxiety, generalised anxiety, panic, social anxiety and phobias. If you are not sure which of those describes it, that is what the first call is for.
Reaching out is the hardest part
Please complete the form so we can best assist you — tell us as much or as little as you’d like. The usual next step is a free 15-minute call with one of the psychologists. What you write stays between you and us.