You’re here because you’re losing sleep worrying about your child.

Your family’s story might sound something like this. In toddlerhood, your child was always a bit anxious or nervous, and you assumed they might grow out of it as they got older. However, somewhere between the ages of 7 and 12, you began noticing shifts in their behavior and mood that increased your concern.

Perhaps bedtime became a drawn-out process, with your child’s preference for sameness evolving into a rigid routine that had to be followed exactly—or it would end in tears. Maybe your child started seeking constant reassurance about a range of worries: “Will something bad happen to you?” “Am I a bad person?” “Do you think I’d ever hurt our dog?”

Getting out the door for school might have become a daily struggle. A child who once barely glanced in the mirror before heading to the bus began spending excessive time adjusting their ponytail or smoothing out their hair until it looked just right.

Family outings, like going out to eat, may have become more difficult. The list of acceptable restaurants has grown smaller, limited to places where foods on your child’s “safe” list are available. They may avoid trying new foods for fear of getting sick or throwing up. Or perhaps your child has become fearful of germs or contamination. Showers have become more frequent—and much longer.

This Is More Than Typical Childhood Worry

It’s normal for kids to feel anxious during transitions or stressful events like starting school, making friends, or coping with loss. But OCD is different.

Kids with OCD experience intrusive thoughts—unwanted, distressing thoughts or images that stick and won’t let go. These thoughts are extremely time-consuming, upsetting, and often interfere with school, friendships, and family life.

To reduce the anxiety caused by these intrusive thoughts, children perform compulsions:

Physical acts like handwashing, checking, symmetry, or rewriting

Mental acts like repeating phrases, silently counting, or mental review

Constant reassurance seeking from parents: “Do you think this person is mad at me?” “Am I going to get sick?”

OCD Doesn’t Just Affect Your Child—It Affects Everyone

For many parents, one of the most exhausting parts of childhood OCD is the constant reassurance-seeking. It can feel like your entire day is consumed by answering questions and accommodating rituals just to keep the peace.

OCD doesn’t just impact your child; it changes the atmosphere of your whole home. Parents often describe feeling like their house has been taken hostage. Your own mental health suffers, your work is affected, and guilt creeps in when you try to take a break, fearing your child will spiral without your help.

There Is Hope for Your Child—and Your Family

Here is my heartfelt message to you: There is hope. You and your family CAN get better.

Left untreated, childhood OCD can be one of the most debilitating mental health conditions. But from a scientific perspective, we understand a lot about OCD, including how it works in the brain and, more importantly, how to make it better.

The gold-standard treatment is Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), which is the only evidence-based therapy for OCD in children. ERP is highly effective, not just for OCD, but also for generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and phobias.

What ERP Really Means for Your Child

ERP is a structured treatment that involves a clear plan and a high degree of parental involvement. The word “exposure” might sound intimidating, and you may think, “My child will never do that.”

But ERP is not about forcing your child into overwhelming situations. It’s about asking questions like: “What is getting in the way of living life the way we want? What are we avoiding? What do we want to do more of that anxiety or OCD is preventing us from doing?”

From there, I guide you and your child to gradually take back your life—step by step—without letting anxiety call the shots.

I Don’t Just Work With Your Child—I Work With You

Here’s something I want you to hear clearly: I don’t just work with your child—I work with you.

Part of treatment is helping parents create a plan to reduce reassurance and accommodations in a progressive, structured way. Reducing the accomodations you make every day for your child’s OCD or anxiety can feel both heartbreaking and counterintuitive. However, being able to scale back your participation in your child’s OCD and anxiety cycle is what actually gives your entire family the best chance to truly recovering from the grip of these symptoms in the long-run.

An essential part of me working with your child involves me giving YOU permission to step off the hamster wheel of exhaustion while I take the reigns on guide your family with a path forward.

I Understand How Hard You’ve Tried

You’ve begged, pleaded, bargained, and used every ounce of bribery and reasoning you could think of. It may feel impossible to imagine your child breaking free from this loop.

But I want you to know that I’ve worked with many families in situations just like yours. I’ve seen firsthand how life can change, how kids can reclaim their freedom, and how parents can breathe again.

You Don’t Have to Do This Alone

Families in your shoes do get better with the right tools and support.

Let’s work together to help your child—and your whole family—find relief and reclaim the life you want to live.