What does OCD therapy in Tampa involve?

OCD therapy typically uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), including Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), to help clients gradually face feared situations without performing compulsions. Sessions also address the thought patterns that fuel OCD cycles.

Can anxiety and OCD look similar?

Yes. OCD and anxiety disorders share features — intrusive thoughts, avoidance, and distress — but OCD is distinguished by the compulsive responses people use to manage distress. A thorough assessment helps clarify the picture and guides treatment.

Do you treat OCD via telehealth?

Yes. OCD therapy, including CBT-based approaches, is highly effective via telehealth. Andrea provides OCD therapy to all Florida residents through secure video sessions.

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What Is OCD?

OCD is more than hand-washing — and more treatable than most people know

OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) involves unwanted, intrusive thoughts that create intense anxiety, followed by compulsions — mental or behavioral rituals — that temporarily relieve the distress but ultimately feed the cycle.

OCD can look like contamination fears, harm obsessions, "pure O" intrusive thoughts, religious or moral scrupulosity, symmetry and order compulsions, or repeated reassurance-seeking. It often overlaps with anxiety, ADHD, and depression. Many people spend years not knowing what they're dealing with — or knowing but assuming it can't be treated.

It can be treated. Effectively.

Signs you may be dealing with OCD

Intrusive thoughts you can't dismissUnwanted images or fears that don't reflect your values

Compulsions that only help brieflyChecking, counting, reassurance-seeking, avoiding, or mental reviewing

Significant time and energy lostRituals or avoidance that interfere with daily life

Shame about the thoughts themselvesFeeling like a bad person for having thoughts you didn't choose

Treatment Approach

How Andrea treats OCD

OCD therapy at A Resilient Tomorrow uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) — specifically, an approach informed by Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) principles — combined with psychoeducation and work on the underlying anxiety and shame patterns.

The goal isn't to eliminate every unwanted thought (that's not possible or necessary). The goal is to change your relationship to those thoughts — so they stop running your life.

Andrea also understands the significant overlap between OCD, anxiety, and ADHD. Many clients come in with multiple co-occurring concerns, and treatment is adjusted to address the full picture rather than just one label.

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What to Expect

What OCD therapy sessions look like

1

Assessment and psychoeducationUnderstanding your specific OCD patterns, cycles, and how the anxiety mechanism works.

2

Building a hierarchyIdentifying feared situations and triggers, ranked from manageable to most distressing.

3

Exposure workGradually facing feared situations while resisting compulsions — at a pace that challenges but doesn't overwhelm.

4

Building a life outside OCDReclaiming time, relationships, and identity that OCD has taken up.

See related services that often overlap with OCD treatment.

Anxiety Therapy

Generalized anxiety, panic, and social anxiety — often co-occurring with OCD. Learn more →

ADHD Therapy

ADHD and OCD overlap in ways that complicate both. Andrea specializes in co-occurring presentations. Learn more →

Telehealth Florida

OCD therapy available via secure video to any adult in Florida. Learn more →

Common Questions

OCD Therapy FAQs

Yes — they share features like intrusive thoughts and avoidance, but OCD is distinct because of the compulsive responses people use to manage distress. The difference matters for treatment. An assessment helps clarify the picture.

"Pure O" refers to OCD presentations where compulsions are primarily mental rather than visible behaviors — things like mental reviewing, reassurance-seeking through thought, or ruminating. It's still OCD, and it still responds well to CBT-based approaches.

Yes. CBT for OCD is highly effective via telehealth. Andrea provides secure video sessions to all Florida residents — no need to travel to Tampa.

Yes. Aetna, Cigna, Florida Blue, Oxford, Oscar, and UHC/Optum are all accepted. See full insurance details →

OCD Therapy in Tampa, FL