Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

Exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy is based on the idea that it is not realistic to try to completely remove distressing situations from our lives and that it is far more effective to have the tools and strategies to manage the anxiety and not allow these situations to trigger obsessions and compulsions. I first trained in ERP over 20 years ago at Texas Children's Hospital. Since then, I have used it regularly and effectively with children and adults.

ERP is a modality I use everyday with clients. It's a modality that's the gold standard to treat anxiety and very effective if used the right way.

Exposure and response prevention (ERP) is a form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) used to treat a variety of conditions, including anxiety, phobias, and eating disorders. It is considered the gold-standard treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

I am trained and practiced in exposure and response prevention to treat OCD and severe anxiety disorders. Previously I worked for a telehealth company that specializes in OCD treatment exclusively, and have experience in treating the disorder in adults and adolescents. I have worked with family members of people with OCD to help them stop unknowingly reinforce the OCD cycle as well.

Dr. Olin uses ERP methods like systematic desensitization to help reduce the severity of simple fears/phobias as well as compulsive behaviors and thoughts.

I am trained in both traditional ERP and rumination focused ERP.

I am intensely trained in short-term therapy using ERP to assist people with achieving long-term results.

I use ERP to disrupt the obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) cycle. ERP has more scientific evidence behind it than any other approach for OCD and is therefore considered the “gold standard”. Through gradual, systematic real life (in-vivo) and imaginal exposure combined with ritual prevention you too can learn how to reduce your distress and reclaim your life from OCD.

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) therapy is a highly effective treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). In ERP, individuals confront their obsessive thoughts and resist engaging in their compulsive behaviors. Through repeated exposure to anxiety-provoking situations and prevention of ritualistic responses, ERP helps individuals learn to manage and ultimately reduce their OCD symptoms.

I have experience and expertise using Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to treat anxiety disorders and OCD. Together with client, I create a hierarchy of feared situations and gradually expose client (starting with the least to most anxiety inducing situation) to their fear, phobia, thought. The goal is to normalize the situation and reduce the distress/anxiety level; ultimately the individual learns to face previously feared situations with minimal or no anxiety.

Along with ERP, I offer Inference based cognitive behavioral therapy as an affirming method for working with OCD.

I love offering ERP, the gold standard for treating phobias and some kinds of anxiety, because it is so effective and creative. We will build trust through collaboration, exploring and shifting your ways of coping with anxiety, then experimenting with activities that will help you face your fears and come out with confidence. Imagine yourself no longer spending time avoiding things or panicking but being able to go through life with more ease. I am in a monthly consultation group for ERP.

Exposure and response prevention (ERP) focuses on changing unhelpful patterns of behavior that reinforce the cycle of OCD by gradually facing feared situations in a supportive and encouraging setting.

Dr. Vivyan has completed graduate-level coursework and multiple training sessions related to ERP for anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorders. She has been using ERP for more than 10 years of training and practice to support kids, teens, and young adults in becoming their bravest selves. As a clinician with lived experience in anxiety, Dr. Vivyan loves to discuss how exposure (facing your fears) and response prevention (avoiding anxious actions) produces brave behaviors for all!

Exposure and Response Prevention is a powerful method that I use with clients that are saddled with painful and distressing through loops and behaviors that rob them of joy and happiness and affect them day-to-day. This approach starts with identifying the patterns, providing education around their function and piecing them apart, creading a solid goal and stepwise plan to make changes, then systematically creating experiments inside and outside session to challenge thoughts and break free!

Dr. Parlor's primary method of intervention is ERP which is the empirically established treatment for OCD.

I am a Certified Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP) utilizing Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) as one modality to treat Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCD).

Amanda has had extensive training and experience in ERP for helping individuals struggling with anxiety and OCD