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Life with OCD

You love your significant other and your pets so much that your feel your life would be over if you lost them. Imagine trying to prevent this with every waking moment of your life. Your life wasn’t always like this. One day you had the thought: “What if my...

For clinicians: Two day workshop on treating ACT-based OCD treatment

Empirically supported treatments, Exposure, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Join us on January 20th and 21st for wonderful presentations from Dr. Twohig and Dr. Pollard! We are very fortunate to have both of these talented clinicians join us for this event. Learn about treating OCD from an ACT perspective, and how to address difficult,...

Parent series: Why is my kid so obsessed with their smell?

Parent series: OCD

Is your teen is overly concerned about is body odor ? Does he asks you often to check whether his body is smelling or not? Does he asks you to not forget to buy cologne otherwise he wouldn’t be able to go out? Does he asks you to open the window so nobody can...

Parent series: My teen wants to do everything correct & right. Watch out for OCD!

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Parent series: OCD

Teens work as hard as they can in school. Getting into college is hard and getting straight A’s is unfortunately almost expected for applicants. This immense pressure that your teen is under can make him extremely focused on doing everything perfectly, paying...

Turtles All the Way Down reading

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

We are so excited to see John Green’s newest book, Turtles All the Way Down! Drawn from Green’s personal OCD experience, he is able to build a wonderful main character who suffers from OCD. Curious about the book but not sure whether you’ll like it?...

Parent series: my kid is so clean; he washes his hands multiple times. watch out for Contamination OCD!

Exposure, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Parent series: OCD

If you’ve read our blogs before, you’re probably familiar with the term OCD, or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Today we’re talking about a specific subset of OCD in a specific age range – Child and adolescent contamination OCD. There are many different types of OCD,...

Values Jounal

Values

‘It’s not about how long you live; It’s about how you live” is a quote you may have heard before, and it’s one that Dr. Nic Hooper, of the ACT Centre for Wellbeing, goes into explaining. He explains that how you live is not based on accomplishments, a set list of...