Written and clinically reviewed By Dr Elaine Ryan Chartered Psychologist specialising in OCD and anxiety disorders, with over 20 years’ clinical experience.
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I have been helping people with OCD in a professional capacity for two decades. Partly due to my training as a psychologist and the experience gained over the past twenty years, I know the most effective outcomes for people may involve using different models of therapy and adapting when the person is struggling, or when … Read more
I’ve been talking about cognitive diffusion over the past couple of days and today want to show how it can help with OCD. If you have read my previous post you will already know that it comes from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). It’s not about changing the thoughts themselves, but how we interact with … Read more
Yesterday, I wrote about using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with CBT to help with the emotional distress experienced with OCD and briefly introduced the concept of cognitive diffusion and decided that I shall spend some time today talking about that. Cognitive diffusion is a term that stems from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). It’s all … Read more
How ACT principles like mindfulness and defusion from thoughts can complement ERP, helping you manage the emotional distress of obsessions. Today, I want to discuss how therapy models can work together to help with OCD. Specifically, I shall be talking about how Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) can work with the exposure and response prevention … Read more
Treatments for OCD have come such a long way from the dark ages of therapy, saying that it was untreatable to embracing Virtual Reality to simulate exposure therapy. Today, I want to look at that technology, specifically Virtual Reality, as exposure therapy for OCD. Traditional exposure therapy is a well-known and effective treatment for OCD. … Read more
The microbiome is a hot topic, and you’ve probably heard all sorts of claims or dabbled in changing your own gut. I certainly have and have just finished a three-month program of targeted nutrition with the hope of changing my gut bacteria. The gut-brain connection is an exciting field, and today, I want to look … Read more