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OCD Therapy London

Our OCD Specialists

Our practitioners at London Trusted Therapy have specialised training in treating OCD using evidence-based approaches, particularly Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). They understand the specific nature of OCD and won’t ask you to simply “stop worrying” or use general relaxation techniques that don’t work for OCD. They’ll help you understand the OCD cycle, develop a hierarchy of exposures tailored to your specific obsessions, and support you through the challenging but life-changing work of breaking free from compulsions. Whether you have contamination fears, harm obsessions, checking behaviors, or any other form of OCD, they’ve worked with it and can help you reclaim your life from this condition.
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Olena

Individual and Couples Psychotherapist

Indu Dua London Trusted Therapy: Professional relational and trauma-informed Counsellor providing expert mental health and trauma support.

Indu

Individual and Couples Psychotherapist

Tina Foley London Trusted Therapy: Expert Individual and Couples Psychotherapist specializing in EMDR and professional mental health care.

Tina

Individual and Couples Psychotherapist EMDR

Ardavan Nikaeen London Trusted Therapy: Expert Individual, Family, and Young People Psychotherapist providing professional mental health care.

Ardavan

Individual Family and Young People Psychotherapist

Karima El Haddad London Trusted Therapy: Expert Individual, Couples, and Family Psychotherapist providing professional mental health care.

Karima

Individual Couples and Family Psychotherapist

Rebecca Myers London Trusted Therapy: Expert Individual and Couples Psychotherapist providing professional care for mental wellbeing.

Rebecca

Individual and Couples Psychotherapist

Nikki Holmes London Trusted Therapy: Expert Individual, Couples, and Family Psychotherapist providing professional mental health support.

Nikki

Individual Couples Family Psychotherapist

Dmitri Popelyuk London Trusted Therapy: Expert Consultant Psychiatrist providing professional mental health diagnosis and treatment.

Dmitri

Consultant Psychiatrist, Founding CEO of Popelyuk Adult Psychiatry

Sabine Tendas London Trusted Therapy | Counselling Psychologist

Sabine

Counselling Psychologist Individual Couples and Family Psychotherapist

CBT Therapist London | Shuja Hoda

Shuja

Individual Couples and Family Psychotherapist

Clinical Psychologist London for Children | Dr Sagari Sarkar

Sagari

Clinical Psychologist Individual Couples and Family Psychotherapist

Dr Saz Guscott HCPC Practitioner Psychologist Neurodiversity Specialist CBT ACT CFT IFS ADHD Autism Support Harley Street and Online

Saz

Counselling Psychologist Individual and Couples Psychotherapist EMDR

Housam Ebrahim Individual Couples Family and Group Psychotherapist EMDR

Housam

Individual Couples Family and Group Psychotherapist EMDR

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Haneyeh

Counselling Psychologist Individual and Family Psychotherapist EMDR

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Emma

Clinical Psychologist Individual and Family Psychotherapist

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Understanding Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

You might experience disturbing, unwanted thoughts that feel completely at odds with who you are: fears of harming someone you love, intrusive sexual or religious images, terror of contamination, or intense need for symmetry and order.
These obsessions create overwhelming anxiety that you try to manage through compulsions – rituals like excessive checking, hand-washing, counting, arranging, or mental rituals like repeating phrases or reviewing memories. The thoughts feel dangerous and real, even when part of you knows they’re irrational. For loved ones watching someone struggle with OCD, the hours lost to rituals, the visible distress, and the inability to “just stop” can be confusing and heartbreaking.
You might spend hours each day performing rituals, checking locks repeatedly, washing your hands until they’re raw, or mentally reviewing scenarios to make sure you didn’t do something terrible. Simple tasks become ordeals – leaving the house, eating a meal, or going to sleep can trigger cascades of anxiety and compulsions. You might hide your rituals from others out of shame, or avoid situations that trigger obsessions, causing your world to shrink. The thoughts themselves can be deeply disturbing – you might fear you’re a terrible person for having them, even though the very fact that they distress you proves they don’t reflect your true desires.
OCD can be mistaken for other conditions because it’s not always about cleanliness – it can involve checking, hoarding, intrusive thoughts about harm, scrupulosity (religious obsessions), relationship obsessions, or purely mental compulsions no one can see.
OCD isn’t about who you are or what you secretly want – it’s a neurobiological condition where your brain’s alarm system misfires.
The most effective treatment, Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), helps you gradually face feared situations without performing compulsions, teaching your brain that the anxiety will pass without the ritual and that the feared outcome won’t happen. It’s challenging work, but it’s also remarkably effective. Over time, you can reduce the power OCD has over your life, reclaim the hours lost to rituals, and learn to coexist with intrusive thoughts without giving them control. Recovery doesn’t mean never having an intrusive thought again – it means those thoughts no longer run your life.
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What Our Clients Say About Us

4.86 rating based on Doctify, Google and Trustpilot reviews

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  • 2025-03-04
I walked in dreading another conversation about OCD that had taken over my daily routines. Instead, Sagari made it feel possible, using mindfulness-based practices, which brought a steady, practical structure to the work. Some days more than others, it's the first thing in years that's actually worked.

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  • 2026-01-12
What struck me most about Haneyeh was how safe I felt discussing OCD that had taken over my daily routines. Using CBT, which felt like the missing piece in everything I'd tried before. If I'm being truthful, things finally feel manageable, and that's no small thing.

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  • 2026-07-29
What I appreciated most about Tina was that OCD that had taken over my daily routines was never treated as a box to tick, leaning on ACT principles, which helped things click in a way nothing else had. I'm no longer surprised by my own reactions — something I wasn't sure was possible.
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