PROVEN APPROACHES
How therapy can help teens.
I specialize in evidence-based treatment for teen anxiety and OCD, using approaches that help retrain the brain's response to fear and uncertainty. Treatment is active and skill-based, focused on building practical tools and changing the patterns keeping anxiety in place.
The most effective treatment for OCD, helping people gradually face fears while learning that anxiety can decrease without relying on compulsions.
A practical approach that helps people respond differently to difficult thoughts and feelings while focusing on what matters most.
Strategies that help identify and change patterns of thinking and behavior that maintain anxiety.
What anxiety and OCD look like in teens
Anxiety and OCD in teenagers don't always look the way people expect. It might show up as school avoidance, reassurance-seeking, difficulty sleeping, or irritability that seems to come out of nowhere. It can look like perfectionism that makes starting anything feel impossible, or a preoccupation with certain thoughts that your teen can't seem to shake. Some teens become withdrawn. Others externalize their anxiety through frustration or conflict. And many are working hard to hide it, which makes it even harder to spot from the outside.
A note if you're a teen reading this
If you found this page yourself, that took something. Anxiety and OCD can make you feel like you're the only one who thinks the way you do, or that something is fundamentally wrong with you. Neither is true. What you're experiencing has a name, it's more common than you know, and it responds well to the right kind of help. Therapy isn't about being told what to do or being talked out of your feelings, it's about learning to relate to your thoughts differently so they stop running the show.