TREATMENT IN PLACES WHERE OCD AND ED RECOVERY ACTUALLY HAPPEN
Specialized Telehealth for OCD, Eating disorders, and Anxiety-related concerns
My practice is completely virtual, allowing you to access specialized care from the comfort and privacy of your own space. I use SimplePractice, a secure, HIPAA-compliant video platform, for all telehealth sessions.
Telehealth offers convenience and flexibility, but for OCD and eating disorders, meeting virtually can also become an important part of treatment itself.
Many of the fears, rituals, food-related challenges, and situations we may want to work on don't happen in a therapist's office. They happen at home, around meals, while getting dressed, in your kitchen, during your daily routines, or when you're faced with something you've learned to avoid.
Virtual therapy allows us to bring treatment into the places where these patterns actually show up.
THERAPY WITH LESS LOGISTICAL STRESS
Finding a therapist who has experience with what you're going through can be difficult especially when you're looking for specialized OCD or eating disorder treatment.
Telehealth can make specialized care more accessible while also offering greater flexibility around work, school, family, travel, health, or other responsibilities.
I provide virtual therapy to clients located in Georgia and participating PSYPACT jurisdictions (see if your state qualifies).
Why telehealth?
Conquer your OCD in the places you need it the most
VIRTUAL OCD TREATMENT
OCD rarely stays neatly contained to a therapist's office, it shows up in everyday moments like leaving the house, making decisions, spending time with others, etc. Telehealth allows us to bring Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) into those real-life situations rather than only talking about them afterward.
Depending on how OCD shows up for you, we might practice:
Approaching something you’ve been avoiding without completing the usual ritual
Leaving something unchecked, unfinished, or “not quite right”
Making decisions without researching, analyzing, or seeking reassurance
Allowing intrusive thoughts to be present without trying to suppress, neutralize, or figure them out
Experiencing uncertainty without doing something to immediately feel more certain
Working virtually can also help us notice subtle compulsions, avoidance, and rules that may be harder to recognize after the fact. Our goals are to help you practice experiencing doubt, discomfort, and uncertainty without letting OCD determine what you do next.
VIRTUAL EATING DISORDER TREATMENT
Recovery happens in everyday moments
Similar to OCD, eating disorder challenges show up in everyday moments choosing what to eat, sitting down for a meal, getting dressed, navigating body image distress, changing a routine, etc. These are times you might even be experiencing an urge to follow an eating disorder rule the most. Telehealth allows us to bring some of that work into your everyday environment rather than only talking about it afterward.
Depending on your needs, we might work together on:
Eating a feared or avoided food
Practicing flexibility around food, meals, or changes in routine
Responding differently to urges to restrict, binge, purge, compensate, check, or avoid
Navigating body image distress and urges to body check
Exploring your relationship with movement, exercise, and rest
Practicing making choices without automatically following eating disorder rules
Virtual sessions give us opportunities to practice rather than only process. At times, we may intentionally work through a meal, feared food, change in routine, or difficult moment together. Treatment also goes beyond these experiences. We’ll work to understand what keeps the eating disorder going, build motivation and flexibility, and create more room for life beyond food and body concerns.
VIRTUAL TREATMENT FOR WHEN OCD & EATING DISORDERS OVERLAP
We need to look at the whole picture
When OCD and an eating disorder occur together, it isn't always obvious what's driving a particular fear, rule, ritual, or behavior. Avoiding a food could be connected to weight or shape concerns but it could also be driven by contamination, illness, choking, vomiting, health, or “just right” fears. Exercise might be connected to changing your body, while OCD may add rules around numbers, completion, symmetry, or doing something until it feels right. Checking a label might be connected to an eating disorder rule, a health-related compulsion, or both.
Virtual therapy gives us opportunities to understand these patterns in the context of your everyday life. Rather than getting stuck trying to perfectly label something as “OCD” or “ED,” we can look at what’s driving the behavior, what keeps it going, and how to respond in a way that supports both OCD treatment and eating disorder recovery.
This matters because what helps one condition can sometimes unintentionally reinforce the other. By considering both together, treatment can help you build greater flexibility without strengthening another cycle.
VIRTUAL ANXIETY DISORDER TREATMENT
Anxiety treatment that goes beyond talking about your fears
Virtual therapy can also be especially useful when working with anxiety, panic, social anxiety, health anxiety, phobias, and agoraphobia. Exposure-based treatment often involves gradually approaching situations, sensations, or uncertainty you've learned to fear rather than continually trying to avoid or control them.
Depending on what you're working on, virtual sessions might allow us to practice approaching a feared situation, experience physical sensations associated with panic, reduce reassurance or safety behaviors, or work toward situations you've been avoiding in everyday life. The goal isn't to eliminate anxiety before you start living differently. It's to help you build confidence that you can experience anxiety and still do the things that matter to you.
SOMETIMES ANOTHER SETTING OR LEVEL OF CARE IS A BETTER FIT
Telehealth can be a convenient and effective way to receive therapy, but it isn't necessarily the right option for every person or every situation. For virtual sessions, you'll need a private space, reliable internet connection, and a device with video and audio. Technology can occasionally be unpredictable, so we'll establish a plan for what to do if we lose connection. We'll also discuss your location and emergency contact information so that we have a clear plan in place should a safety concern arise during a virtual session. Most importantly, we'll consider whether outpatient telehealth is clinically appropriate for your current needs.
This is particularly important with eating disorders, where medical stability, nutritional needs, symptom severity, or other concerns may indicate that additional support or a higher level of care would be more appropriate. If I believe you need support beyond what I can safely or effectively provide through outpatient telehealth, I’ll provide you with the appropriate next steps.
Wondering if virtual therapy is right for you? Let’s start with a conversation about what’s bringing you to therapy, what you’re looking for, and how I may be able to help.