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Removing Privileges as a Parent to a Child with OCD

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Parent series: OCD

As a parent to a teen with OCD, are you often asking yourself, “What can I be doing to get my teen to stop doing these compulsions?” Removing privileges is NOT helpful to your teenager’s ability to manage their OCD, mental health, or treatment...

Separation Anxiety Disorder & Social Anxiety

Anxiety, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety

Anxieties – all types of them – don’t exist in isolation but co-existing with each other. Think for a moment of Georgia. Georgia is a 10 year old only child who lives with her parents. She worries about the wellbeing of her parents “everyday, all the...

The Compassionate Self Identity at work by Dr. Yotam Heineberg

Behavior change

A portion of the human experience that many of us enjoy and delight in has to do with experiences of joy, awe, and celebration. Another portion which many of us grapple with has to do with the realities of pain, challenge and suffering. We find ourselves afraid to...

Social Anxiety & OCD

Behavior change, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Stephanie is a 16 year old girl struggling with both Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Social Anxiety. In regard to social anxiety, Stephanie worries that people will judge her for the way that she eats, so she skips eating lunch at school or orders simple...

Body Image Concerns

Behavior change

Body image concerns refers to how an individual sees their own body and how attractive they feel themselves to be. Many people have concerns about their body image, these concerns often focus on weight, skin, hair, or the shape or size of a certain body part. However,...

Phobias

Behavior change

There are two different kinds of phobias, specific phobia and social phobia (also known as social anxiety disorder). A specific phobia is an intense fear of something identifiable, like an object, animal, situation, or place. This fear is much different and more...

Emotion Regulation

Emotion regulation problems are characterized by an individual’s experiencing emotions “too much, too quickly, with a slow return to an emotional baseline level, and based only on short-term consequences”. For instance, I sometimes hear about situations that may...