OCD Exposure Therapy For High-Functioning Women

I'm Dr. Lauren Levine, a licensed clinical psychologist. I work with high-functioning women who look completely fine on the outside while OCD runs on a loop on the inside. OCD is not primarily a thinking problem. It's a response problem. What the brain has learned to do in response is the real issue: check it, analyze it, ask for reassurance, avoid it entirely. Exposure and Response Prevention works on the response side. We retrain the response. Not the relationship. Not the thought itself. Just the response.