Welcome to OCD North!
Your Experts in OCD Treatment
Creating a community that values inclusivity and strives to empower and motivate others in a safe environment where individuals and families can feel supported, understood, and hopeful about overcoming OCD.
OCD North COVID-19 Guidelines for Essential In-Person Treatment
Therapists, staff, and clients are required to wear a mask at all times, while in the OCD North building. Exceptions to this rule include when a therapist is in their dedicated work space, alone, with the door closed, or in a video session in their dedicated work space, alone, with the door closed. We continue to disinfect all high touch surfaces including: doorknobs, handrails, toilet seats and taps.
Do You or Somebody You Know Have OCD?
Common OCD Signs & Symptoms in Adults
Recurring and distressing thoughts, images, or urges Despite best efforts to rid one's self of these thoughts they do not go away. Adults will try to neutralize these thoughts through mental or behavioural acts that make the distress go away. The problem with compulsions is that they do not work very well or for very long before the distress returns.
OCD Obsessions
OCD Compulsions
Exposure & Response Prevention (ERP).
Together with your therapist, you’ll face your fear in-real life or through your imagination. Your exposure might take place in clinic, at home, or in the community.
How does it feel to jump into a really cold swimming pool? It’s really cold at first, but before long you've forgotten how cold it was when you got in. Or consider watching your favourite scary movie over and over again. You may leave the lights on after that first viewing but eventually, the movie loses its “fear factor.”
When fearful situations are confronted while preventing all maladaptive safety behaviours, the brain learns a new, more adaptive response to that situation. This process is called habituation or inhibitory learning, and it’s really cool. That is the basis for ERP.
OCD recovery is possible through Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) treatment! At OCD North, we use ERP treatment to help you overcome OCD for one main reason – it works.
ERP treatment is the gold standard treatment in OCD therapy (making it one of the most effective mental health treatments around!), and our clinicians trust this treatment practice to help our clients overcome OCD every. single. day.
It’s almost impossible to face your fear alone, but only you can confront the OCD fear.
Think of driving: you’re in the driver’s seat and your ERP therapist is in the passenger seat.
You’re in control of the wheel and the only person that can maneuver the car, stop and go, and control the volume of the radio. In the passenger seat, your ERP therapist guides you down the dark and bumpy roads, helping you to correct your path, all the while encouraging you to confront the thing that is most fearful.
Meet The OCD North Team.
Located in Barrie, Ontario, our team is a growing group of committed individuals from a wide range of different backgrounds. We were brought together by our passion to provide the best treatment available for our clients.
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