Online Therapy for OCD in Alberta
You may have spent years fighting intrusive thoughts that feel impossible to ignore. Or hours trying to understand them, solve them, or find the certainty that finally allows you to feel okay.
Many people who have battled OCD know the exhausting cycle of inner turmoil frustration and the endless struggle of trying to stop it.
“Why can’t I just stop thinking about this?”
“Why do I need to check one more time?”
“Why can’t I trust myself?”
If this feels familiar, there is a reason your mind responds this way. OCD can create powerful cycles of doubt, fear, and compulsive attempts to find relief.
For many people, OCD develops alongside a strong need to prevent mistakes, avoid harm, or feel certain. Sometimes this connects with experiences where you learned that being careful, responsible, or alert helped you feel safer.
The problem is that the strategies designed to create safety can become the very thing keeping you trapped.
Understanding this is not about blaming yourself. It is about recognizing that your brain learned a pattern, and patterns can change.
Types of OCD I Commonly Work With:
OCD can take many forms, and the content of the thoughts can vary greatly from person to person. I commonly work with:
- POCD (Pedophilia OCD) — intrusive fears, doubts, or unwanted thoughts related to harming or being attracted to children.
- ROCD (Relationship OCD) — persistent doubts and uncertainty about your relationship, your feelings, or whether your partner is “the right one.”
- Scrupulosity OCD — involving morality, religion, faith, sin, or fears of being a bad or immoral person. When faith is an important part of your life, I can offer counselling from a Christian perspective while still using evidence based OCD treatment, including ERP.
- Responsibility OCD — excessive fears of being judged, rejected, criticized, being embarrassed, saying the wrong thing, having offended or hurt someone, being misunderstood or seen in a negative way.
- Harm OCD — unwanted, intrusive fears or images about harming yourself or someone else, or fears that something bad may happen unless you prevent it. You may feel responsible for stopping harm, leading to checking, avoiding, reassurance-seeking, or other compulsions to make sure nothing goes wrong.
Regardless of the theme, the underlying OCD cycle can look very similar:
intrusive thoughts → doubt or anxiety → compulsions or reassurance → temporary relief → more doubt.
You don’t have to be defined by the content of your thoughts. I can help you understand what is happening, recognize how OCD keeps the cycle going, and walk alongside you through the steps toward breaking that cycle.
Therapy can help you develop a different way of responding to OCD where you can move forward without being controlled by doubt, fear, or the need for certainty.