Resources

 Not sure if you're ready to engage? Or perhaps you're wait-listed. 


Either way, there are resources for people that I've suggested over the years. Here they are:

(Scroll down to the end of this document for information about support groups for people with OCD.)

Books        

Anxiety

  • The Anxiety and Worry Workbook: The Cognitive Behavioral Solution, by Clark and Beck 
  • Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry. By Pittman and Karle.

  • Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety, by Wilson (one of my personal favorites)


Body Dysmorphic Disorder

  • The BDD Workbook: Overcome Body Dysmorphic Disorder and End Body Image Obsessions (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)by Claiborne and Redrick
  • The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder Revised Edition, by Phillips
  • Understanding Body Dysmorphic Disorder 1st Edition, by Phillips


Hoarding Disorder

  • Digging Out: Helping Your Loved One Manage Clutter, Hoarding, and Compulsive Acquiring, by Tompkins and Hartl
  • The Hoarder in You: How to Live a Happier, Healthier, Uncluttered Life, by Zasio 


OCD

IOCDF - The international Obsessive Compulsive Disorders Foundation. Just a wealth of information for clients and therapists and family members. 

Books for Adults:

Rewire Your OCD Brain: Powerful Neuroscience-Based Skills to Break Free from Obsessive Thoughts and Fears, by Pittman and Youngs

Books for Parents/Children:

  • Breaking Free of Childhood Anxiety and OCD, by Lebowitz
  • Treating Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety: A Guide for Caregivers, by Lebowitz. 
  • Blink Blink, Clop, Clop: An OCD Storybook by Moritz.
  • What To Do when Your Brain Gets Stuck: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming OCD, by Huebner and Matthews

Books for Clinicians/Clinical Texts: 

  • Addressing Parental Accommodation When Treating Anxiety in Children, by Lebowitz
  • The Big Book of Exposures: Innovative, Creative, and Effective CBT-Based Exposures for Treating Anxiety-Related Disorders, by Springer and Tolin
  • Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Childhood OCD: It's Only a False Alarm (Treatments That Work) by Yadin, Foa, Lichner
  • Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding (Treatments That Work) 2nd Edition, by Tolin, Tompkins, and Steketee
  • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Body Dysmorphic Disorder: A Treatment Manual, by Wilhelm and Phillips


OCD Groups:

New Mexico: 

OCD Support Group Albuquerque. Learn more here. 

Washington:

OCD Seattle sponsors meetings at Swedish hospital in Seattle on the third Saturday of the month. (Learn more here)

Looking for an OCD or anxiety treatment provider near you? I provide effective treatment is available via telehealth in the Seattle, Olympic Peninsula, and Surrounding areas and throughout Washington state. I also provide treatment client clients in Albuquerque, and throughout New Mexico.



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