Reid Wilson, PhD

 

Millennials with OCD get caught up in a mental game they’re guaranteed to lose. Constantly seeking absolute certainty, predictability, and the avoidance of all anxiety, they become ever more intent upon perfecting the rituals they think will protect them, which only increases their anxiety and compulsive behavior. How do you move someone toward anxious uncertainty when their heart, mind and soul are committed to finding comfort? Participants will learn a persuasive strategy—built out of whole cloth within the first session—that will frame the entire treatment protocol. Our goal is to help them voluntarily seek out and embrace uncertainty and anxiety as their ticket out of suffering. These self-help oriented skills can be applied to the treatment of washers and cleaners, checkers, repeaters, horderers, and cognitive-ritualizers.