Therapy for RUMINATION, OCD, and body focused repetitive behaviors

Rumination and OCD are driven by patterns of repetitive thinking that create anxiety, self-doubt, and mental exhaustion. These thoughts can feel intrusive, urgent, or impossible to turn off—even when you recognize they aren’t helpful. Over time, the mind becomes stuck in loops of overanalyzing, checking, reassurance-seeking, or mentally reviewing scenarios in an attempt to feel safe or certain.

Therapy helps by addressing both the thought patterns and the nervous system responses that keep these cycles going. Using cognitive and somatic approaches, we work to identify how your mind attempts to manage uncertainty and distress, and gently retrain it to respond differently.

In our work together, you’ll learn how to:

• Recognize and interrupt rumination before it spirals

• Respond to intrusive thoughts without engaging or suppressing them

• Build tolerance for uncertainty and discomfort

• Reduce compulsive behaviors, reassurance-seeking, and mental checking

• Calm the nervous system so the mind doesn’t stay in a constant state of threat

Rather than trying to “get rid of” thoughts, therapy focuses on changing your relationship to them—so they lose their intensity and control. Over time, this creates more mental space, emotional steadiness, and the ability to trust yourself without constant overthinking.

The goal isn’t perfection or certainty, but freedom: freedom from mental loops, freedom to be present, and freedom to live your life without your thoughts running the show.