by Carrie Bock | Feb 23, 2021 | Anxiety, Counseling, OCD
Understanding the difference between anxiety and OCD can be challenging. After all, both disorders affect the mind and body. Those with anxiety or OCD can experience physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual distress. Let’s start by looking at the symptoms of each...
by Carrie Bock | Feb 2, 2021 | Counseling
You’ve waited a long time to get help, finally gotten the nerve to go to therapy, but just aren’t sure about your therapist. Is this really helping? How do you know when it’s time to keep working with your current therapist or walk away? Here are five signs it may be...
by Carrie Bock | Jan 26, 2021 | Anxiety, Counseling, EMDR, OCD, Trauma
When people first hear about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), they are often skeptical. That’s OK because I was too once. I wasn’t sure how waving my fingers back and forth in front of my clients was going to change how they felt about...
by Carrie Bock | Jan 19, 2021 | Counseling, Relationships, Trauma
How do you know if your childhood is negatively affecting your adulthood? You don’t want to be a victim to what happened to you as a child and blame everything on your parents, but you still feel that childhood experiences may be holding you back. If you have...
by Carrie Bock | Jan 12, 2021 | Counseling, EMDR, OCD
Individuals who are diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) are often told that they need to receive Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) in order to treat their OCD. While ERP has been widely researched and works for some individuals, ERP is not the only...
by Carrie Bock | Jan 5, 2021 | Anxiety, Counseling, Medication, OCD
Maybe this is a question you’ve asked yourself. Perhaps you have concerns about side effects, becoming dependent on medication, or wonder if this option is for you. My response to this question is always the same: It’s a personal decision. Each person has to decide...
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