Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD) Therapists in Marlborough, MA
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OCD Specialist, Shane MacDonald, LICSW
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW
Verified Verified
Marlborough, MA 01752 (Online Only)
Our broad goal––of course––is “the end of unnecessary suffering.” Sound about right? While we all strive for this, I specialize in helping folks with a very-unique kind of suffering: OCD. I can tell you that few people understand the pain and complexity of OCD—(even most therapists). I will listen intently to your unique story. Just know that I can introduce you to an arsenal of tools that can help: mindfulness, ERP (exposure and response prevention) and on and on. Yes, thoughts can be “sticky.” But––with hard work––if (or when) those thoughts come back around…they can be as quiet & as harmless as a yellow post-it.
Our broad goal––of course––is “the end of unnecessary suffering.” Sound about right? While we all strive for this, I specialize in helping folks with a very-unique kind of suffering: OCD. I can tell you that few people understand the pain and complexity of OCD—(even most therapists). I will listen intently to your unique story. Just know that I can introduce you to an arsenal of tools that can help: mindfulness, ERP (exposure and response prevention) and on and on. Yes, thoughts can be “sticky.” But––with hard work––if (or when) those thoughts come back around…they can be as quiet & as harmless as a yellow post-it.
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Julie Y Winnick, MA LMHC
Counselor, MA, LMHC
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Marlborough, MA 01752 (Online Only)
I specialize in treating OCD, anxiety and Pervasive Developmental Disorders.
My empathic and supportive nature allows me to build productive therapeutic relationships in which clients discover paths to surpass their obstacles. I coordinate my expertise with clients' style of coping in order to create action strategies that best suit their needs. I find it important for my clients to feel they are empowered in their treatment, in turn feeling a sense of pride and renewal in their lives. I work with clients to find a balance in their lives by focusing on themselves, emotionally, physically and intellectually.
I specialize in treating OCD, anxiety and Pervasive Developmental Disorders.
My empathic and supportive nature allows me to build productive therapeutic relationships in which clients discover paths to surpass their obstacles. I coordinate my expertise with clients' style of coping in order to create action strategies that best suit their needs. I find it important for my clients to feel they are empowered in their treatment, in turn feeling a sense of pride and renewal in their lives. I work with clients to find a balance in their lives by focusing on themselves, emotionally, physically and intellectually.
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I have been working as psychotherapist since 2017 with clients from all age groups, various background and different cultures. Brazilian, living in the US from the past 25 years and have plenty of knowledge of what challenges immigrants face here, including difficulties adjusting to the culture and thriving the system. I have experience with a variety of diagnoses including anxiety, ADHD, depression, panic disorder and OCD. Holding a Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling from Cambridge College, Boston, MA and a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Framingham State University.
I have been working as psychotherapist since 2017 with clients from all age groups, various background and different cultures. Brazilian, living in the US from the past 25 years and have plenty of knowledge of what challenges immigrants face here, including difficulties adjusting to the culture and thriving the system. I have experience with a variety of diagnoses including anxiety, ADHD, depression, panic disorder and OCD. Holding a Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling from Cambridge College, Boston, MA and a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Framingham State University.
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Please note: I am accepting new clients and have evening/weekend availability. I am a licensed clinical psychologist who is passionate about helping people lead a meaningful, fulfilled life. I specialize in treating emerging adults, adults, and seniors who are managing post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, and substance use disorders. I also have expertise in helping individuals who are managing identity and relationship issues, grief, insomnia, bipolar disorder, life transitions, and disordered eating/body image concerns.
Please note: I am accepting new clients and have evening/weekend availability. I am a licensed clinical psychologist who is passionate about helping people lead a meaningful, fulfilled life. I specialize in treating emerging adults, adults, and seniors who are managing post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, and substance use disorders. I also have expertise in helping individuals who are managing identity and relationship issues, grief, insomnia, bipolar disorder, life transitions, and disordered eating/body image concerns.
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As an Acute/Critical Care Nurse Practitioner, I was not cognizant of the impact of mental illness on family and society, until I decided to pursue a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Degree. I believe that societal stigmatization of mental illness, and the shame felt by families who have a loved one with mental illness, makes it difficult for these patients to recover, and live peacefully for the rest of their lives. Psychiatric illness should be treated like a medical illness with no stigma, no blame or shame.
As an Acute/Critical Care Nurse Practitioner, I was not cognizant of the impact of mental illness on family and society, until I decided to pursue a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Degree. I believe that societal stigmatization of mental illness, and the shame felt by families who have a loved one with mental illness, makes it difficult for these patients to recover, and live peacefully for the rest of their lives. Psychiatric illness should be treated like a medical illness with no stigma, no blame or shame.
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Northeast Health Services is an outpatient mental health care provider dedicated to serving Massachusetts and the local area of Marlborough. At our Marlborough clinic we provide a broad array of services including psychotherapy, group therapy, child & adolescent therapy, child & adolescent psychiatry, adult psychiatry, and medication management.
Northeast Health Services is an outpatient mental health care provider dedicated to serving Massachusetts and the local area of Marlborough. At our Marlborough clinic we provide a broad array of services including psychotherapy, group therapy, child & adolescent therapy, child & adolescent psychiatry, adult psychiatry, and medication management.
Dr. Steven Di Francesco is a Clinical Psychologist with a range of professional experiences in various outpatient settings including primary care within academic medical centers. His main treatment modality is cognitive behavioral therapy. He earned his Master’s and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Health Psychology at Cleveland Clinic. Thank you for your interest in Dr. DiFrancesco’s practice as he looks forward to starting this journey for your optimal well-being!
Dr. Steven Di Francesco is a Clinical Psychologist with a range of professional experiences in various outpatient settings including primary care within academic medical centers. His main treatment modality is cognitive behavioral therapy. He earned his Master’s and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Health Psychology at Cleveland Clinic. Thank you for your interest in Dr. DiFrancesco’s practice as he looks forward to starting this journey for your optimal well-being!
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Onyx Counseling established in 2022 offering individual counseling . Appointments with Onyx Clinicians are filling fast so please reach out. The best way to connect is via email or phone, or through the contact portion of www.onyxcounselingcenter.com.
Onyx Counseling established in 2022 offering individual counseling . Appointments with Onyx Clinicians are filling fast so please reach out. The best way to connect is via email or phone, or through the contact portion of www.onyxcounselingcenter.com.
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Elizabeth Aponte-Perez
Counselor, LPC, LPCC, LMHC
Verified Verified
Marlborough, MA 01752 (Online Only)
I am a Licensed Therapist in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Difficult experiences in life can bring up feelings of anxiety, depression, or lack of direction; it can be hard to know what to do. With compassion and honesty, I will help you to work through issues while identifying your areas of concern pointing at your inner strengths, and helping you to be a happier and healthier version of yourself. When clients are focused on exploring their feelings, they are empowered to face any obstacle in their lives and rewrite their own stories.
I am a Licensed Therapist in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Difficult experiences in life can bring up feelings of anxiety, depression, or lack of direction; it can be hard to know what to do. With compassion and honesty, I will help you to work through issues while identifying your areas of concern pointing at your inner strengths, and helping you to be a happier and healthier version of yourself. When clients are focused on exploring their feelings, they are empowered to face any obstacle in their lives and rewrite their own stories.
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Please note: I can't take insurance but I have a sliding scale - we will figure something out! - - Everyone has their own strengths and needs, children and adults alike. Sometimes the needs are overwhelming and the strengths are hard to find. Those are times when it helps to have someone who will listen, understand, support, validate, encourage, and help. I believe it's important to honor all emotions as valid and all needs as real. I also believe those needs don't have to define who you are, and that recognizing and accepting something as real - a loss, a child's behaviors - opens the way to start making positive changes.
Please note: I can't take insurance but I have a sliding scale - we will figure something out! - - Everyone has their own strengths and needs, children and adults alike. Sometimes the needs are overwhelming and the strengths are hard to find. Those are times when it helps to have someone who will listen, understand, support, validate, encourage, and help. I believe it's important to honor all emotions as valid and all needs as real. I also believe those needs don't have to define who you are, and that recognizing and accepting something as real - a loss, a child's behaviors - opens the way to start making positive changes.
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My warmth and compassion helps build a healing environment to support internal growth. I collaborate with clients to be empowered to fulfill their personal goals and live their best life. My use of cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness as well as an eclectic approach offers a tailor-fit approach for each person to strategize and resolve challenges and conflict in their life. I offer guidance and support for each person to make empowered choices to create renewal, balance and freedom in life. I offer insight, and a non-judgmental environment to support, and teach skills necessary for growth.
My warmth and compassion helps build a healing environment to support internal growth. I collaborate with clients to be empowered to fulfill their personal goals and live their best life. My use of cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness as well as an eclectic approach offers a tailor-fit approach for each person to strategize and resolve challenges and conflict in their life. I offer guidance and support for each person to make empowered choices to create renewal, balance and freedom in life. I offer insight, and a non-judgmental environment to support, and teach skills necessary for growth.
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Acknowledging you deserve to be happier and healthier in your life is the first step. Taking that first step in seeking help requires courage. My cognitive behavioral approach and techniques will create change and progress toward a more productive fulfilling life. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps individuals identify their distressing thoughts and evaluates how realistic your thoughts are.
Acknowledging you deserve to be happier and healthier in your life is the first step. Taking that first step in seeking help requires courage. My cognitive behavioral approach and techniques will create change and progress toward a more productive fulfilling life. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps individuals identify their distressing thoughts and evaluates how realistic your thoughts are.
I treat all anxiety disorders and mood disorders. I have a specialty in treating trauma survivors. I also practice mindfulness based psychotherapy.I feel I am effective in dealing with grief and loss, life transitions and women's issues as well.
I treat all anxiety disorders and mood disorders. I have a specialty in treating trauma survivors. I also practice mindfulness based psychotherapy.I feel I am effective in dealing with grief and loss, life transitions and women's issues as well.
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Sandra Peters
Counselor, MA, LMHC
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Marlborough, MA 01752 (Online Only)
Waitlist for new clients
If you are having difficulty managing the physical, emotional, and psychological demands that life invariably brings, perhaps I can help. I have twenty years' experience working with children, families, and adults. The core of my treatment revolves around identifying strengths and building on resiliency. I can help you manage daily stressors, form meaningful relationships, and rebuild a healthy sense of self.
If you are having difficulty managing the physical, emotional, and psychological demands that life invariably brings, perhaps I can help. I have twenty years' experience working with children, families, and adults. The core of my treatment revolves around identifying strengths and building on resiliency. I can help you manage daily stressors, form meaningful relationships, and rebuild a healthy sense of self.
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Erin is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and has been working as a psychotherapist for over a decade. She has and a broad range of experience in a variety of settings. She provides individual psychotherapy for people managing issues related to depression, anxiety, trauma, ADHD, self-esteem, grief and loss, sexuality, relationships, stress, significant life events/transitions, self-harming, adolescent-focused issues and/or general life struggles. Erin's approach is client-centered and relational, drawing on one's strengths to help encourage healing and change.
Erin is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and has been working as a psychotherapist for over a decade. She has and a broad range of experience in a variety of settings. She provides individual psychotherapy for people managing issues related to depression, anxiety, trauma, ADHD, self-esteem, grief and loss, sexuality, relationships, stress, significant life events/transitions, self-harming, adolescent-focused issues and/or general life struggles. Erin's approach is client-centered and relational, drawing on one's strengths to help encourage healing and change.
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Is depression or anxiety taking over your life? Are you finding communication with your child mission impossible? Just talking with a friend will only be a temporary solution. And enduring a bad situation will not help. I can offer either short or long term collaboraton aimed at meeting your current life challenges which block your realization towards greater life satisfaction. I can help you reduce that anxiety by assisting you to feel more in control over your life. I can help you to gain strength to go forward while bearing sadness. You do not have to take the journey alone.
Is depression or anxiety taking over your life? Are you finding communication with your child mission impossible? Just talking with a friend will only be a temporary solution. And enduring a bad situation will not help. I can offer either short or long term collaboraton aimed at meeting your current life challenges which block your realization towards greater life satisfaction. I can help you reduce that anxiety by assisting you to feel more in control over your life. I can help you to gain strength to go forward while bearing sadness. You do not have to take the journey alone.
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I create a supportive environment that facilitates healing and growth. Through our collaborative work together, I empower clients to find their best answers, and teach them the skills they need to thrive in their lives and relationships. My approach is both empathic and solution oriented. My primary focus is to help people improve their lives in the present, even when that means healing from the past. I am skilled in both traditional techniques, such as CBT, and holistic approaches, including mindfulness. This enables me to tailor my approach to meet each person’s needs and goals.
I create a supportive environment that facilitates healing and growth. Through our collaborative work together, I empower clients to find their best answers, and teach them the skills they need to thrive in their lives and relationships. My approach is both empathic and solution oriented. My primary focus is to help people improve their lives in the present, even when that means healing from the past. I am skilled in both traditional techniques, such as CBT, and holistic approaches, including mindfulness. This enables me to tailor my approach to meet each person’s needs and goals.
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Tatiana Taylor
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Marlborough, MA 01752 (Online Only)
Welcome and Congratulations on taking the first step to enhancing your mental health! Sometimes our thoughts can lead us to feeling overwhelmed and trapped in our own heads. Allow me to help you unpack those negative thoughts, and empower you to create positive affirming ones.
Welcome and Congratulations on taking the first step to enhancing your mental health! Sometimes our thoughts can lead us to feeling overwhelmed and trapped in our own heads. Allow me to help you unpack those negative thoughts, and empower you to create positive affirming ones.
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If you have been trying to balance your life and are not succeeding, asking for help can change the course of your story. I am a psychoanalyst, my job is to take an active role in the therapeutic relationship between patient and provider to challenge clients to evolve. I offer a safe, inclusive and non-judgmental environment; all while providing individual care for adults
If you have been trying to balance your life and are not succeeding, asking for help can change the course of your story. I am a psychoanalyst, my job is to take an active role in the therapeutic relationship between patient and provider to challenge clients to evolve. I offer a safe, inclusive and non-judgmental environment; all while providing individual care for adults
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Elisha Bernstein
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Marlborough, MA 01752
Accepting new patients. I am licensed clinical social worker and has been working in the field for over 15 years. Primary work has been with counseling and social work in a variety of settings including psychiatric hospitals, crisis intervention programs, partial hospital program. I have great deal of experience working with children, adolescents and adults with a range of psychiatric disorders, addictions and life circumstances. I am attentive, respectful and empathetic; I try to create a safe, non-judgemental supportive therapeutic environment for my patients.
Accepting new patients. I am licensed clinical social worker and has been working in the field for over 15 years. Primary work has been with counseling and social work in a variety of settings including psychiatric hospitals, crisis intervention programs, partial hospital program. I have great deal of experience working with children, adolescents and adults with a range of psychiatric disorders, addictions and life circumstances. I am attentive, respectful and empathetic; I try to create a safe, non-judgemental supportive therapeutic environment for my patients.
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Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD) Therapists
How long does OCD treatment take?
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is often treated on a weekly or twice-weekly schedule, depending on symptom severity and the client’s preferences. Some clients may start to see a noticeable improvement in symptoms in as little as six weeks, but it’s also possible, especially in more severe cases, for treatment to take several months to a year before significant progress is made.
What happens if OCD is not treated?
Some people with OCD, especially those with mild symptoms, may find that they are able to adapt reasonably well to life with the condition, even if their symptoms never resolve completely. However, many people, particularly those whose symptoms are severe at the outset, find that their obsessions and compulsions grow more intrusive with time, making it harder to maintain relationships, hold down a job, or navigate the world successfully.
Are there medications for OCD?
Medication can be used to treat OCD. The class of drugs most often prescribed are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, which include fluvoxamine (under the brand name Luvox), fluoxetine (Prozac), and sertraline (Zoloft), among others. In cases of treatment-resistant OCD, other classes of medication, such as tricyclic antidepressants or atypical antipsychotics, may be prescribed. Medication is frequently used in conjunction with therapy.
Can OCD come back after treatment?
Yes. Major life transitions, periods of stress, or other factors can cause symptoms to return or, if they were never fully eradicated, to ramp back up in intensity. For some, these relapses are brief and do not require additional treatment; identifying specific triggers and practicing the skills learned in therapy can help speed their course. For others, returning to therapy for a brief period can help address the underlying stress and strengthen coping mechanisms.