Quiet Mind CBT

Quiet Mind CBT A specialty practice dedicated to providing state-of-the-art care for anxiety and related disorders.

For students with OCD, heading back to school can bring on increased symptoms. For kids and adults alike, changes in rou...
08/28/2025

For students with OCD, heading back to school can bring on increased symptoms. For kids and adults alike, changes in routine and increased stress can cause an exacerbation of existing symptoms, or new symptoms to emerge. Working with your child to cope ahead to manage this temporary increase in stress and anxiety can help them to start the year off strong!

Something that anxiety disorders and OCD have in common is worry. Worry about the future isn’t problem solving, and it w...
08/26/2025

Something that anxiety disorders and OCD have in common is worry. Worry about the future isn’t problem solving, and it won’t prevent bad things from happening. It will steal your peace from today, from this moment. Compulsive worry is treatable. Depending on the function of your worry, exposure and response prevention, cognitive behavior therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy can help you learn to let go of compulsive worry.

You’ve met FOMO, now introducing FOBI! The Iconic Wednesday Adams, portrayed on Netflix by Jenna Ortega says what a lot...
08/20/2025

You’ve met FOMO, now introducing FOBI! The Iconic Wednesday Adams, portrayed on Netflix by Jenna Ortega says what a lot of people with social anxiety disorder and OCD are thinking. This fear is painful, people with social anxiety or OCD with social themes are not antisocial, they experience intense anxiety, fear, and discomfort around being judged, acting inappropriately, and losing control. Recovering from social anxiety or OCD involves embracing uncertainty. Anxiety is treatable; a licensed mental health professional with expertise in providing evidence based treatments for anxiety, OCD, and related disorders can help you determine what treatment is right for you!













Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) have significant overlap, as well as importan...
08/18/2025

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) have significant overlap, as well as important differences in both symptoms and treatment that make appropriate evaluation and diagnosis important. If you struggle with symptoms of either or both, an evaluation with a licensed mental health professional with expertise in anxiety and related disorders, and who provides Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Exposure and Response Prevention is in order. Effective treatment is out there, you don’t have to suffer alone!

If Radical Acceptance means choosing to stop struggling with things that cannot be changed, how can Radical Acceptance p...
08/13/2025

If Radical Acceptance means choosing to stop struggling with things that cannot be changed, how can Radical Acceptance play a role in OCD treatment? Isn’t treatment about making change?

Accepting the diagnosis of OCD, rather than insisting it not exist or be some other way opens you up to pursue effective treatment. As thought intrusions are normal phenomena, and will be present during and after treatment, radical acceptance of their existence is key to the long term management of OCD, as fighting with them or pushing them away plays a role in maintaining OCD. Exposure and Response Prevention, the gold standard for OCD treatment, involves learning to tolerate the anxiety, disgust, uncertainty, and discomfort that come from confronting feared stimuli without engaging in rituals. Acceptance is key to learning that you can tolerate these feelings while living a values driven life!

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Radical acceptance is a powerful tool to have in your kit! Radical acceptance = complete and total acceptance of realit...
08/12/2025

Radical acceptance is a powerful tool to have in your kit! Radical acceptance = complete and total acceptance of reality as it is. It’s important to remember that acceptance does not equal approval. It doesn’t mean that you like or approve of something, nor that you’re giving up. It’s making a conscious decision to stop struggling with something that cannot be changed.

For example, perhaps you have a headache. You’ve asked yourself if change is possible; that might involve taking a medication or sitting in a darkened room. Once you’ve changed what you can, engaging in radical acceptance is the difference between, “I have a headache, this sucks, I can’t stand this, I won’t get anything done today,” and “I have a headache.” Radical acceptance can help you transform suffering that feels unmanageable into pain that still hurts, but doesn’t overwhelm you.

Also referred to as Friluftsliv or “open air life,” it’s the practice of getting outdoors and promoting a deep connectio...
08/07/2025

Also referred to as Friluftsliv or “open air life,” it’s the practice of getting outdoors and promoting a deep connection with your natural surroundings. There are many mental health benefits to spending time in nature. Behavioral activation decreases symptoms of depression, experiences of awe inspired by nature promote a sense of well being and improvements in mood, and mindful awareness of our natural environment helps to retain a sense of present focus. Get out of your mind and into nature!

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If you’ve ever worked with Dr. Scrivani, or met her, or passed by her on the street, she’s probably taught you diaphragm...
07/31/2025

If you’ve ever worked with Dr. Scrivani, or met her, or passed by her on the street, she’s probably taught you diaphragmatic breathing. Diaphragmatic breathing is one of those rare skills that’s applicable to so many situations. Practiced for five minutes per day, and research demonstrates that it will lower blood pressure and resting heart rate. Once mastered, it can be used in anxiety provoking situations to calm your body’s fight or flight response. It’s also useful to help down regulate the chronic central nervous system reactivity that happens in folks with chronic pain. Here’s an instructional video so you can start practicing today! https://youtu.be/LCgLq0FR1gE?feature=shared

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There’s a reason that OCD is called the doubting disease; people with OCD know that their OCD thoughts are not facts, bu...
07/23/2025

There’s a reason that OCD is called the doubting disease; people with OCD know that their OCD thoughts are not facts, but there’s a sliver of doubt that says they could be. This is one of the reasons why OCD thoughts are not amenable to challenging, no matter how many facts prove that the thought is not true. That OCD voice saying “they might be, they could be,” is always present.
This is also one of the reasons why exposure and response prevention treatment is so effective - by exposing yourself to the situations that OCD tells you to avoid and not engaging in a response or ritual, you learn to sit with the uncertainty that comes from that what if thought. The more you practice, the more you see that you can tolerate the doubt!

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There’s a reason that OCD is called the doubting disease; people with OCD know that their OCD thoughts are not facts, bu...
07/23/2025

There’s a reason that OCD is called the doubting disease; people with OCD know that their OCD thoughts are not facts, but there’s a sliver of doubt that says they could be. This is one of the reasons why OCD thoughts are not amenable to challenging, no matter how many facts prove that the thought is not true. That OCD voice saying “they might be, they could be,” is always present.

This is also one of the reasons why exposure and response prevention treatment is so effective - by exposing yourself to the situations that OCD tells you to avoid and not engaging in a response or ritual, you learn to sit with the uncertainty that comes from that what if thought. The more you practice, the more you see that you can tolerate the doubt!

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Are you having a difficult time getting started this morning? You are not alone! Everyone struggles with motivation from...
07/21/2025

Are you having a difficult time getting started this morning? You are not alone! Everyone struggles with motivation from time to time. If you’re struggling with depression, anxiety, or executive functioning, you may struggle to get motivated to do things like your therapy homework, chores, responsibilities at work, and more. When things on the to do list pile up, they can become even more overwhelming.

You cannot rely on motivation alone to get things done. You might feel very motivated to exercise the next day as you’re getting ready for bed, but when your alarm goes off in the morning, the motivation might be gone. Motivation is influenced by so many different factors - emotions, mental health, physical health, the tasks at hand, and the list goes on and on. Motivation can reliably be created by engaging in action. Don’t feel motivated to exercise? What is one step you can take? Get dressed in your workout clothes. If that’s all you do today, tomorrow get dressed and go outside. As you engage in more goal oriented behaviors, your motivation will increase - action = motivation = more action. As you build habits, you will find that they are much more reliable than motivation!

Even Captain America himself - Chris Evans, experiences anxiety. He offers an important reminder that our thoughts only ...
04/22/2025

Even Captain America himself - Chris Evans, experiences anxiety. He offers an important reminder that our thoughts only have meaning if we give them meaning. Thought defusion is a powerful technique from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy that can help create space between you and your thoughts. You can have a thought with buying it, believing it, or doing anything at all on response to it!

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