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Hope Forward Psychotherapy

Hope Forward Psychotherapy is mental health based private practice.

10/07/2025

The emotion of anger is commonly used as a descriptor to explain an individual's response and/or reaction to/in a situation. It is seen and experienced differently from and between person-to-person.

Anger typically stems from a perceived, whether real or hypothetical, slight from another person or an injustice occurring towards oneself or another individual and/or group of people.

10/02/2025

When it comes to OCD, it is important to recognize the narrative that it sets. The reason for this is because it allows for a person to know the beliefs and values that decisions are made from. Once this is known, it can make it easier for an individual to be able to implement useful cognitive and behavioural strategies and tools.

10/01/2025

It can be easy to only see oneself through the lens of OCD. However, it is important to remember that OCD does not define a person. Rather, OCD is a disorder that can be managed with tools and coping strategies.

09/26/2025

There are many assumptions and stereotypes that a person thinks of and/or believes when it comes to OCD. Some of these assumptions stem from a lack of understanding of what the characteristics of OCD are. It is common for people to see obsessions and compulsions as one and the same. However, obsessions are typically thoughts-based and compulsions are behaviourally-based.

Other assumptions and stereotypes of OCD, come from people not knowing what it really entails. It is not something someone can just get over, rather it can be debilitating to a person's life. It is a matter that an individual needs to learn coping strategies in order to manage their every day life.

09/25/2025

It is not always easy to get the support from others when it comes to changing one's thoughts and/or behaviours based on OCD's belief system. In part, the difficulty may stem from the frustration that others may have experienced when it comes to interacting when OCD is occurring.

Therefore, gaining and maintaining the social support needed requires a level of honesty of one's experience with OCD and the goals when it comes to coping and managing with OCD's thoughts and/or behaviours.

09/23/2025

Exposure and Prevention therapy is commonly used for OCD. Throughout, the exposure and prevention a person needs to keep motivated and consistent with exposure and belief in change.

The first part is exposure, which requires to create a ladder hierarchy of what is worried and/or feared. For example, if a person is doing exposure therapy for contamination. A person would identify from 0-100, what surface and/or object they would not touch or have touch them. This then begins the process of active and gradual exposure to the situations.

The second part is prevention. A script is created to minimize and make less influential the OCD's belief system. The script is written by way of acceptance and the inclusion of the motivation towards the change the person is seeking.

It is important to remember that it is probable that OCD can be triggered, which is why it becomes important to use prevention strategies, when needed.

09/19/2025

Exposure therapy is used when it comes to helping a person cope and manage their OCD thoughts and behaviours. When it comes exposure therapy, it is important that it is done gradually and at the progress that is comfortable and it is more beneficial than a hinderance.

09/17/2025

OCD can be understood as a belief system which a person finds reasons to support it. This belief system impacts and influences a person's way of thinking and what they pursue in life. It is why it is important to separate a person's own values from the narrative that OCD sets. It allows for an individual to cope with the impact and influence of OCD by recognizing that OCD does not define them.

09/12/2025

CBT is an approach that is used in order to help manage OCD. A focus is placed on an individual's thoughts and their behaviours in response to the fears and worries about a situation.

The fear and worry that drives obsessions and compulsions instils the need to avoid any potential negative outcome. It is why the CBT approach is used, as it identifies the cognitive distortions and the problem behaviours. This then allows for the individual to be able to set a plan that will help them manage their OCD.

09/10/2025

It can be difficult to have a relationship (romantic or otherwise) with someone who has OCD. The difficulty can stem from there being life and social disruptions and also a lack of accountability. This can have a person feeling frustrated and annoyed about the inability of making decisions. It can seem as they have limited to no control of the dynamics within a relationship.

09/08/2025

Living with OCD can be a burden to those who have to figure out how to cope with its impact every day. It directly and indirectly impacts social relationships in how a person interacts with others and perceives a situation. It also impacts the assumed outcome of a situation, which is never to the benefit of the person living with OCD. The fear of the worst-case scenario always has evidence to support it as fact. This perspective tends to be the only one believed.

09/04/2025

Obsessions and compulsions primarily originate from the same sources which are anxiety, worry and fear. Taking this into consideration, obsessions and compulsions can and do manifest in different ways.

For obsessions, the focus is on a specific thought. The person believes in this thought due to past experiences which support the assumed negative outcome.

For compulsion, the focus is on prevention. More specifically, it is about preventing the feared negative outcome which can cause unknown harm to themselves or others.

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Ottawa, ON

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Monday	8am - 7pm
Tuesday	8am - 7pm
Wednesday	8am - 7pm
Thursday	8am - 7pm
Friday	8am - 7pm

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