“CalmOCD helped our family understand, accept and manage our son’s anxiety and OCD. Working with CalmOCD proved a critical turning point, and the entire family feels a dramatic, positive impact.
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We were amazed at how quickly our son’s therapist, Courtney, created an accepting environment and formed a trusting relationship with our son, who then felt comfortable expressing real feelings and thoughts that he had stifled. When Courtney diagnosed our son with OCD, she took the time to explain the condition and its manifestations to him, which relieved a lot of his anxiety.
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During therapy sessions, Courtney taught our son lifetime tools for managing OCD, which robbed OCD of its power and returned control to our child. OCD is sneaky. We uncovered how pervasive it is in our son’s life, touching on so many areas and, in hindsight, explaining so many behaviors.
Courtney works as a true team member not only with the patient, but also with the parents. Our parent sessions proved an integral part of our child’s therapy and allowed us to provide better support at home. We learned that our well-meaning attempts to decrease our son’s anxiety actually reinforced his OCD and compulsive behaviors. Courtney taught us how to react (or rather not react) to OCD and served as a sounding board when we needed help troubleshooting real-life scenarios.
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We are extremely grateful that CalmOCD has the expertise and passion to diagnose and effectively treat anxiety and OCD. Our child succinctly summed up his experience at CalmOCD - “I’m happy after I see Courtney."”