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11/30/2023

11/04/2023

Exactly!

10/11/2023

I'm here to help! I'm a Certified Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CACBT) and an Exposure and Response Prevention Therapist specializing in treating anxiety disorders and depression. No one has to go it alone!
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10/11/2023

"Mental health is a universal human right! We need to improve knowledge, raise awareness and drive actions that promote and protect everyone's mental health as a universal human right".
It's ok to talk about mental health and to show everyone that mental health matters!

09/27/2022

NEW GROUP ALERT 🚨

Squirrels and Foxes 🐿 🦊

The practice is offering a 4 week nature based group for children aged 8-12 years old who experience anxiety.

This is a psycho-educational group to help children learn about anxiety, how anxiety shows up in the body and how they can work to tame it, through game play, experiential learning and discussion.

This group is OUTSIDE and will happen rain or shine with available shelter!

Group will run Mondays from 4:15-6:15pm starting Oct 3rd 2022!! (Group break over Thanksgiving and Halloween 🎃)

There is no set fee for this group, although we do ask parents to make a donation.

If you are interested in registering your child please email info@gracenorthpsychotherapy.com

Group run by our MSW intern Alex Thomson along with Social Worker Tanya Devlin!

You won’t want to miss this !! 🐿 🦊

08/26/2022

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/69-interview-with-catherine-goldhouse-about-inference/id1499514794?i=1000577257604&fbclid=IwAR2OX5BxSy62gNpUqxCg0AWuN9zEJ6ILcfWVT3XO2jeLYsRV_-NFmoEt3uc

Great podcast by Catherine Goldhouse on Inference Based Therapy (i-CBT). Worth a listen if you are considering an evidenced based treatment option for OCD.

‎Show The OCD Whisperer Podcast with Kristina Orlova, Ep 69. Interview with Catherine Goldhouse about Inference Based CBT - Aug 24, 2022

06/14/2022

For anyone looking for OCD Treatment, this would be a great opportunity....

05/05/2022

Great write up by Catherine Goldhouse. Catherine is a colleague who also treats OCD with I-CBT (Inferential Based Therapy).

What is Possible?
It’s important that we get clear what the word “possible” means because it’s often used interchangeably with “probable,” which is incorrect. When something is “probable,” it is likely to occur or be true. When something is “improbable,” it is unlikely to occur or be true. Regardless of whether something is likely or unlikely, we are talking about the real world.

When something is “possible,” on the other hand, this means it is imaginable or conceivable. It is a hypothetical reality. What makes something possible? Being able to imagine it. That’s it. That’s all it takes. The ocean turning purple? Sure, it's possible, because almost anything is possible. Suddenly going blind and not being able to finish reading this page? Possible. Something being possible has nothing to do with the real world. When we are talking about reality and likelihood, we are talking about probability, whereas possibility only exists in the imagination.
For example, let’s say your partner asks you if you are going to be stopping by the grocery store on your way home. If you were to answer by saying “it’s possible,” this would not be helpful. Why? Because your partner isn’t asking if you could hypothetically go to the store. They already know that, hypothetically, of course you can. They know that going to the grocery store on the way home from work doesn’t defy the laws of the physics or time or some sort of universal truth so, of course, it’s hypothetically possible. But something being possible just means one can imagine it taking place. Simply being able to imagine you going to the grocery store doesn’t give your partner any information about you actually going or not going to the grocery store in reality.
So, if your partner asks you if you plan to swing by the grocery on your way home, a useful answer would be “yes,” “no,” “probably,” “probably not,” or some variation thereof. Because that provides them with information that is relevant to reality rather than information from the land of hypotheticals.

Why does this matter? Because people with OCD tend to blur these two worlds together such that something being possible gets morphed into being understood as probable. This is called “inferential confusion.” When this happens, your imagination trumps the information from the real world around you and you start living in an imaginary story as if it were real. Being able to identify this critical point when the OCD crosses over from the real world into the imagination is the most important step to moving on from OCD.

By Catherine Goldhouse, LICSW, LCSW www.catherinegoldhouse.com
Clinician’s Handbook for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Inference-Based Therapy, First Edition. K. O’Conner and F. Aardema. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2012 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Catherine Goldhouse is a Licensed Psychotherapist offering Online Therapy to Individuals and Couples in Florida, Maine, and Massachusetts. Catherine Goldhouse specializes in OCD (including intrusive thoughts/ Pure O), Anxiety, and Relationships.

03/11/2022

Great article. Thought I would share!

When we got the green light to begin exposure therapy, I ignorantly celebrated. I had no idea that the experience would be traumatic for both of us.

03/11/2022

I have successfully completed the 32 week certification program for Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD with the Cognitive Behavioural Institute. It was a lot of work but it was great learning! It the midst of that, I also trained in a new approach to OCD called Inference Based Therapy. It is showing some great results with the more difficult OCD sub-types like pe*****le, sexual orientation and harm OCD. These OCD sub-types tend to have a high drop out rate with ERP. I feel pretty equipped now to tackle the arsenal of OCD. If you know anyone suffering from OCD, I am well equipped to help!
Thanks Susan

01/31/2022

Great article by Martin Seif and Sally Winston. Anticipatory Anxiety is a maintaining factor in many anxiety disorders! Worth the read.

How to understand and overcome fear of future events, actions, or decisions.

01/21/2022

If you are caring for someone with OCD consider attending.

Courage to Caregivers and the IOCDF present a Fireside Chat Caregiver Essentials Series: Caring for Someone Living with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). ...

01/12/2022

12/11/2021

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/capturing-ocd/202112/are-coping-skills-really-helping-you?eml

This article is bang on! Well done Ben

What happens when you try to make your anxiety go away.

11/06/2021

Love this!

"This realization was like a weight being lifted."