Beverley Sinclair
Clinical Hypnotherapist
This experience Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder – OCD – is a mental health condition characterized by disruptive to the lives of those who suffer with it. An anxiety disorder, it causes intrusive or insistent thoughts which then translate into repetitive behavioural traits which can range from mild to extreme.
Common behaviours can include intrusive and recurrent thoughts, ideas or impulses and they can be worrying, repulsive, obscene or blasphemous. Compulsions are actions an individual feels compelled to perform to reduce the anxiety they feel from an obsession. They are repeated continuously and often carried out without conscious thought. Examples of compulsions include excessive washing and cleaning, counting and touching things, hoarding, incessant rechecking, repeating certain words or phrases and performing ritualistic behaviour. The cause may not be a single or specific event – it could be something as general as a perception that the environment or world isn’t safe in some way – and because the subconscious mind is our inner protector, it creates anxiety – in this case, OCD – to keep us safe.
Hypnotherapy - OCD Treatment
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for OCD works to help you understand triggers and replace them with healthy coping strategies. We use a variety of therapeutic techniques CBT, and NLP with the integration of hypnotherapy and psychotherapy proven it a highly successful way that are beneficial in treating obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), including exposure and response prevention and cognitive restructuring. Most people who receive CBT treatment for OCD start noticing improvements within weeks.