OCD affects about 750,000 people in the UK. The good news is there are effective treatments to help you manage and overcome your OCD.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (CBT for OCD)
CBT is a treatment where you and your therapist will work together to understand the impact of your intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviours. Including what keeps them going and then you will be support to find ways to think and act differently.
Everyone's OCD is unique, so your treatment will be personalised and based on a formulation or road map of your OCD.
You will be supported to learn to test out your OCD thoughts and change the meanings you give to them.
Treatment will be done alongside you to allow you to understand your OCD and what you need to do once therapy finishes so you can flourish in the future.
Exposure and Response Prevention for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (ERP for OCD)
ERP or Exposure and Response Prevention is type of CBT, specifically a behavioural therapy that's particularly effective in the treatment of OCD.
This treatment helps you face your fears in a gradual way and not neutralise or do your usual OCD response to make them better.
This is done in a step by step way to allow you to build up to your worst fears.
Often ERP is combined with ERP depending on your formulation and goals for treatment.