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The Therapy Network includes a diverse group of psychologists, therapists and clinical social workers. Our aim is to help you find a therapist that is qualified and appropriate for your needs and resources. Therapy Network serves San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Albany, Corte Madera, Kentfield, the City of Sonoma and Walnut Creek and the rest of the Bay Area.

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OCD/Compulsive Behaviors

You wake at night with your heart pounding, convinced your child is in danger because you failed to line up your spice bottles correctly. Your hands are chapped and red because you feel you must wash off the germs many times per day. You can't stop playing World of Warcraft or watching Internet pornography. The towering piles of newspapers you are afraid to throw away have made it almost impossible to walk through your house. You can't even leave the house because you have to keep going back to make sure the door is locked.

Just reading about these behaviors is exhausting. Being ruled by them can derail you.

Uncontrolled obsessions and compulsions can take over our lives. Obsessions (thoughts, images, and sounds you can't get out of your head) and compulsions (behaviors and rituals you need to perform over and over again to provide relief) may occur along a spectrum of severity: Some are relatively benign; others lower the ceiling on what it means to live freely. Futile attempts to fight the impulse can actually fuel the behavior itself.

Therapy can help you to understand the underlying anxiety that fuels Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and learn coping strategies to contain the often deep-seated anxiety before it spirals out of control and compromises your life and relationships. Therapy can help you to unravel the meaning of the behavior and then create meaningful substitutes so you can feel more secure, connected, and whole.

Therapy can help you understand the underlying anxiety associated with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Therapists teach coping strategies to contain this anxiety before it compromises your life and relationships.

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