What Members are saying about NOCD

It went well. I was working on some things that are very hard for me but she did a great job helping me feel safe.

Sabre is definitely well versed in OCD and its treatment. She does a great job of explaining what OCD is and does to our brains and also probes deeply into its grasp on the brain during sessions, leading to new revelations that even individuals with years of OCD and treatment come to. Beyond her ability to specifically target and treat OCD obsessions and compulsions, she also provides more wholistic mental health care. This is particularly helpful, as OCD is intertwined with the whole of the person, and broader insights that may not seem connected to OCD on the surface are shown to be part of the larger web. I am grateful for the growth I have been able to experience during my time working with Sabre.

I just wanted to say thank you to Leigh Joyner who has and continues to be an amazing therapist. I’ve dumped my troubles, struggles, questions, etc. on her and she continuously helps me to find meaningful resolutions that make sense and work. Thank you so much Leigh for being a compassionate and understanding therapist. Thank you for inspiring me to be self compassionate, to hold on to my wins more than i do my failures, and allow myself to be exposed to my fears so I can work through them, rather than avoiding them. Thank you for listening and providing feedback and techniques i can use to get a little better every day. Thank you for being awesome!

Matthew McKinley has been great so far in the month I’ve been seeing him and with working with me to really get to the root of my very specific OCD/panic disorder. He’s also great at listening to my troubles that are not things completely related to my OCD. I can already tell a small change in my behaviors and mindset and so have others. Appreciate you, Matthew!

Robert provided support for me when I was battling a hard ocd exposure. This was my second time receiving ocd therapy and Robert taught me to align myself with my values and to pushback against ocd. The journey of managing ocd is day-to-day, but thanks to my work with Robert, I have a stronger defense against ocd in a few areas. I'm grateful to him and recommend him.

Sabre is incredibly accessible, and she makes me feel like I am never just another client. She creates personalized activities that truly meet me where I am, gently pushing me to grow while also knowing when I need to pause and take a break. She shows deep compassion and genuine understanding, and her intricate knowledge of OCD has helped improve my life after just a few short months. With her support, I feel like I have someone who stands beside me as I face the daily challenges of OCD. Each session helps me grow stronger and more hopeful.

Faith was everything I could’ve asked for in a therapist, plus some. Faith was extremely insightful and provided me with actionable advice, exposures, and grounding skills to make real progress with my OCD. Faith was extremely responsive at all times and was incredibly accommodating to my schedule as a graduate student. She continued to support and believe in me when I doubted myself, and went above and beyond for me time and time again. I would recommend Faith to anyone with OCD and can’t say enough good things about her!

Alex is tremendously friendly, professional, and knowledgeable. We’re grateful for her guidance.

Best therapist to date🙏🏽

I genuinely do not know where to begin with my therapist, Candice. A couple of months ago, I was struggling and felt as if things would never get better. I was in an endless loop of shame, self-sabotage, sadness, and anxiety. Not only had my life events caused me pain and unhappiness, my OCD was causing my life to go to shambles. I was hesitant to help myself because I was so used to living in a constant battle with my emotions. I took my first step into getting the help I needed and deserved, which was when Candice came into my life. She has truly been a guardian angel and has taught me how to live again. She has taught me that OCD, anxiety and depression do not rule over my life. They do not define me. My OCD has always gotten in the way of me enjoying myself and living at my fullest. I can now hug my loved ones without fear, push back on intrusive thinking and know "I can handle it". This would not be possible without Candice and her genuine empathy and care. Thank you Candice for showing me it's not impossible. You have shown me things do get better when I put myself first and allow myself to see the beauty in life again. You are an amazing individual and I can not be more happy to have met you and have you as my therapist.

Since beginning therapy, I have felt a huge amount of progress in my life. I’m able to identify what’s going on and why. Pam is an amazing person and professional. Her ability to ask the correct questions to get my “brain wheels” turning is truly remarkable. I feel comfortable and confident speaking with her about the road blocks in my life and have shared things I haven’t felt comfortable with before beginning therapy. I’m thankful for making this choice for myself.

I am incredibly grateful to have been paired with Adrienne and truly appreciate the care, support, and thoughtfulness she brings to every session. She makes therapy feel worthwhile and meaningful, and I genuinely look forward to our appointments. Knowing I have her guidance and support makes this entire process feel so much more manageable.

Shawna helped my quality of life improve so much in the last 2 years. I never thought therapy could help me turn my life around so dramatically. I used to feel so out of control with my OCD. It was draining and I was unknowingly feeding into my OCD. ERP has made my OCD completely manageable and I can’t thank Shawna and NOCD enough.

To me, I just felt like she was not really trying to actively listen to me. It might be due to not having enough time to talk about everything since it was an intake session. But overall, it felt like when I was trying to explain and ask questions she was trying to really win an argument, instead of trying to listen to me thoroughly. I wanted to ask a question and make a comment about how to tell the difference between two conditions while she was talking about triggers, she did not really give time and attention to my comments and questions that I feel like they deserved , instead, she kept going back to a particular trigger and not really taking the signal that I was wanting to talk about another trigger. Because she was really insistent on talking and staying on about the original trigger, I did not feel comfortable enough to interrupt her and ask about something. She kept asking me about whether my experiences fit with the trigger that she was originally talking about, and I answered honestly about whether or not the trigger being true, and she kept saying “ exactly!” with an elevated level of excitement and exclamation as if she was trying to prove that her thoughts and arguments about the trigger were correct. And overall, her facial expressions throughout the whole meeting felt very sarcastic, unpredictable, a bit untruthful (like she was really trying to suppress her true thoughts and emotions that show on her face). She would smile, but then the smile would look like mockery (example she would smile, but then one end of her lips were tilted downwards while the other was tilting up). And sometimes she would have a solemn poker face when her tone was really bright and sunny. Maybe the mismatching of tone and facial expressions along with the assertive yet sunny-dispositioned tone were my triggers as well that I needed to deal with. I just wanted to share my honest thoughts. Lastly, she would not explain things in a very thorough and comprehensive way, but she would rather simplify a lot of of things, which did not suit my way of understanding things. I didn’t think that a 1 star reading would accurately reflect my experience with her, since I felt that, at least she was somewhat genuinely trying to help

She is so caring and attentive! I feel so heard and supported in every session and I feel like I have already made so much progress in just a few weeks!

Sophia is the best! She’s extremely easy to talk to, makes me feel like a human first, and is extremely creative when it comes to exposures. I don’t feel as alone as I did prior to meeting Sophia, and I am very grateful that she is my therapist :)

Marie creates a compassionate and supportive environment where you feel comfortable talking about what your ocd tells you you have to hide. Because of this, therapy sessions with her become a space that helps conquer OCD and regain a life that is values-based instead of fear-based. So grateful I found her and that she’s my therapist!!

I feel so much better after working with Kim. I am incredibly grateful to her for helping me live my life again.

Judy is the most awesomest therapist ever and always give relevant examples and ties them to things that are of interest to you and the coolest part is she is a faith based counselor who loves Jesus and ties your faith with your therapy she is awesome and give more stars if i could!

Brooke is an incredible therapist. Love her and all she’s helped me with. I have come so far since this year and gone through some of the toughest challenges of my life but since I had been going to Brooke I was able to handle all that life threw at me. Very grateful for her.