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OCD Therapy Direction Jane Watkins is a specialist in treating OCD online using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for OCD, along with CFT and ACT.

Therapy

I specialise in treating anxiety using CBT, along with CFT & mindfulness

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) aims to make you your own therapist.  CBT looks at how we think (C of CBT) and how this affects what we do or our behaviour (B of CBT) and how this makes us feel, emotionally and physically.  CBT guides us to explore more helpful ways of thinking, behaving and feeling and leaving the vicious cycle of negative thoughts and feelings behind.  It is very normal for people with anxiety (in whichever form, eg OCD, GAD, Stress, low self-esteem etc) to go through CBT multiple times. We learn different things from different therapists and this entirely natural.

CBT Therapy for anxiety

CBT is the recommended talking therapy for many anxiety disorders (NICE).   I have seen CBT have amazing results for clients over the years.  You are here because you are considering getting some help for your anxiety. Therapy is very rewarding and is also hard work, for us both. To get the best out of therapy you need to feel motivated and have time to put in some practice between sessions. 

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You will see, what I call ‘practice’, referred to as homework elsewhere. To me, homework can have unhelpful reminders of years gone by from school!  The reason I use the word practice is that you have been ‘practising’ the use of anxiety for, probably, a long time.   In order to learn more helpful ways to respond to anxious thoughts, you will need to practice these new ideas, to make them your new default.   This is why I think of therapy as a ‘team effort’.  I bring a new way of thinking about and managing thoughts and will help you to claim your life back from anxiety.  You bring your expertise of being you all the helpful coping strategies you already have, even if. you are not aware of them at the current moment.  Put these together with some hope, patience and practice, and you can claim your life back from anxiety and start living your life the way you choose.

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I want a face to face appointment but you are too far away

I do understand this and unfortunately wherever I live, this would be an issue for most people who were not in a reasonable driving distance.  Even before COVID I had been doing lots of therapy via Microsoft teams and Zoom.  Since COVID so many of us are now used to it and for young people its just normal everyday life.   

We are now used to the technology that allows us to pick therapist we would like to work with from the comfort of our own home easily, no matter where that therapist lives.

All the research suggests that the efficacy (how well therapy works) is just the same whether it is delivered via video or in person.  I always speak to all potential new clients via phone first, so if you wanted to try out video, lets do that first free meeting (15 minutes) via zoom or teams and see how you find it, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

You also have the convenience of being able to do sessions wherever you are, in the car (you would be surprised how many sessions on on in cars!), at home, or in the office.  All you need is a private space where you feel safe to talk.  You don't have the hassle of travel and the worries about being delayed or late, it is really great!   Give it a chance and see.

I don't do therapy by phone though.  As long as we can see each other, it works just fine, by phone, not so well as most of our human communication is via body language that is lost via phone but not via video.

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