OCD and Anxiety Center of Minnesota

OCD and Anxiety Center of Minnesota Dedicated to providing evidence-based treatment for individuals suffering from OCD and anxiety.

🧠 OCD Hope & Recovery Panel — New Location!📍 Now at Carondelet Event Center in Saint PaulJoin us for an in-person event ...
07/25/2025

🧠 OCD Hope & Recovery Panel — New Location!

📍 Now at Carondelet Event Center in Saint Paul
Join us for an in-person event open to individuals with OCD, their loved ones, and providers.

🗓 Wednesday, August 13
🕖 7–8 PM CDT (Doors open at 6:40 PM)
📍 Carondelet Event Center — 1890 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105
🚗 Free on-site parking
🎟️ RSVP: ocdhopepanel.eventbrite.com

This panel features individuals with lived experience, clinicians, and advocates sharing what OCD recovery really looks like—beyond the Instagram quotes and clinical jargon. There will be space for Q&A and open conversation.

Featured Speakers:
✨ Aneela Idnani – Co-Founder of HabitAware, lived experience with trichotillomania
✨ Alison Dotson – Author of Being Me with OCD, OCD awareness advocate
✨ Bryan Piatt – Former KARE 11 anchor, mental health advocate, pre-licensed therapist
✨ Lucy Grantz, LMFT – OCD specialist and therapist with lived experience

Whether you’re navigating OCD yourself, supporting someone who is, or simply want to learn more, this event offers honesty, community, and hope.

🔹 Now Accepting Referrals 🔹We’re excited to introduce Heidi Lohman, MA, LPC (she/her) — a skilled clinician at the OCD &...
07/16/2025

🔹 Now Accepting Referrals 🔹
We’re excited to introduce Heidi Lohman, MA, LPC (she/her) — a skilled clinician at the OCD & Anxiety Center of Minnesota (OCDMN) who brings over 15 years of experience supporting adolescents and adults.

📍 In-office (St. Paul) & Telehealth in Minnesota

Heidi’s specialties include:
✔️ OCD (including Relationship OCD & Health OCD)
✔️ Social & Generalized Anxiety
✔️ LGBTQIA+ Affirmative Care
✔️ Identity Development
✔️ Eating Disorders & ARFID
✔️ Parent Coaching (SPACE model)

Heidi draws from CBT, ERP, Solution-Focused, and Narrative approaches, while keeping a strong relational and trauma-informed foundation. She also has extensive experience in school-based mental health and integrates care across systems when appropriate.

👉 Heidi is currently accepting new adolescent and adult clients.

📩 Referrals or inquiries: heidi.lohman@ocdmn.com
🔗 Learn more: https://www.ocdmn.com/meet-the-team

Pride Day 2 — We’re back! 🧠🌈Come hang out with us at the OCDMN booth (Booth 433 in the Pet Central)! Our tent is stocked...
06/29/2025

Pride Day 2 — We’re back! 🧠🌈

Come hang out with us at the OCDMN booth (Booth 433 in the Pet Central)! Our tent is stocked with resources, activities, and plenty of support. 💬💛

Whether you’re curious about OCD, looking for community, or just want to grab some swag and share the scare—stop by and say hi!

Let’s keep breaking the stigma!

Come visit our Share the Scare board at the OCDMN Pride booth today! 🧠🌈This interactive space is all about normalizing i...
06/29/2025

Come visit our Share the Scare board at the OCDMN Pride booth today! 🧠🌈

This interactive space is all about normalizing intrusive thoughts and breaking down the shame and silence around OCD. Thank you to everyone who has already participated—you showed incredible courage and vulnerability, and your honesty helps others feel less alone. 💬💛

We’re here all day at Booth 433—swing by, add your voice, grab some swag, and help us spread awareness.

OCD is not quirky—it straight up sucks. But it’s treatable. And you’re not alone.

We’re here at Twin Cities Pride! 🌈 Stop by Booth 433 in the Living Well + Pet Central area to say hi, grab some swag, an...
06/29/2025

We’re here at Twin Cities Pride! 🌈

Stop by Booth 433 in the Living Well + Pet Central area to say hi, grab some swag, and learn more about OCDMN’s affirming mental health care for LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent communities. 🧠💛

🌈 We’re proud to be part of Twin Cities Pride 2025!📍 Visit us at Booth 433 in Pet Central (yes, by the therapy mini hors...
06/25/2025

🌈 We’re proud to be part of Twin Cities Pride 2025!
📍 Visit us at Booth 433 in Pet Central (yes, by the therapy mini horses 🐴💛)

🧠 Learn more about OCD & anxiety
🌟 Grab free resources + affirming swag
🎨 Join in on creative mental health activities

Whether you’re LGBTQ+, neurodivergent, questioning, or just curious—we’re here to support you with care that actually gets it. 💕

🗓️ June 28 | 10am–7pm
🗓️ June 29 | 10am–6pm
📍 Loring Park

OCD can script a terrifying story about who you might be—and your body reacts as if it’s true. Just like a movie can mak...
06/03/2025

OCD can script a terrifying story about who you might be—and your body reacts as if it’s true. Just like a movie can make us cry, even when we know it’s not real, OCD pulls us into a narrative that feels convincing, but isn’t based on reality.

In our latest blog post, we explore how OCD creates a “Feared Self”—and how Inference-Based CBT (I-CBT) helps you reconnect with who you truly are.

📖 What If I’m a Bad Person? (Part Two) now live at ocdmn.com/blog, link in bio

Hit-and-Run OCD is a subtype of Harm OCD marked by intense fear of having accidentally hit someone while driving—even wh...
05/08/2025

Hit-and-Run OCD is a subtype of Harm OCD marked by intense fear of having accidentally hit someone while driving—even when there’s no proof it happened.
Our latest blog breaks down common obsessions, compulsions like checking or avoiding driving, and how treatments like ERP, I-CBT, ACT, and Mindfulness can help you break free from the OCD cycle.

Read now at ocdmn.com/blog
Link in bio!

🌟 Now Accepting New Clients at OCDMN! 🌟We’re excited to welcome new clients for therapy and assessments at the OCD & Anx...
05/06/2025

🌟 Now Accepting New Clients at OCDMN! 🌟
We’re excited to welcome new clients for therapy and assessments at the OCD & Anxiety Center of Minnesota! Whether you're looking for support for yourself or your child, our compassionate team is here to help.

🧠 What we offer:
✅ Individual Therapy
✅ Group Therapy
✅ Parent Coaching
✅ Comprehensive Psychological Assessments (ages 6+)
✅ Strengths-Based Reports & Personalized Feedback
✅ Actionable Recommendations for home, school, or work
✅ Support for Executive Functioning & Emotional Regulation

💬 We specialize in:
• OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
• Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
• ADHD
• Eating Disorders
• School-Related Challenges (Refusal, Perfectionism)
• LGBTQIA+ Affirmative Care

🧪 Assessments use gold-standard tools like:
ADOS-2 • SRS-2 • Y-BOCS • OCI • CAARS-2 • DIVA 2.0 • WIAT • WISC • KTEA

🧑‍⚕️ Assessment Team:
Dr. Kristen Stevens, PhD, LP
Dr. Melissa Treff, PsyD, LP
Dr. Sarah Cherwien Hoel, PhD, LP

👥 Now welcoming therapy clients:
Heidi Lohman, MA, LPC
Shana Link, MA, LPCC
Halen Bower, MA
Haley Petersen, MA

📍 Therapy sessions are offered in Saint Paul or via telehealth throughout Minnesota
📍 Assessments are conducted in our Chanhassen location
💳 Private pay only
📞 Call/text us at 763-620-9083
📧 contact@ocdmn.com
🌐 Visit us at www.ocdmn.com

✨ We're here when you're ready—reach out today to learn more or get started!

We’re thrilled to welcome Heidi Lohman, MA, LPC (she/her) to the OCDMN team! 🎉Heidi provides in-office and telehealth th...
04/30/2025

We’re thrilled to welcome Heidi Lohman, MA, LPC (she/her) to the OCDMN team! 🎉

Heidi provides in-office and telehealth therapy for adolescents and adults, specializing in OCD, generalized anxiety, social anxiety, LGBTQIA+ affirming care, eating disorder recovery support, and school-related concerns like refusal and perfectionism.

With over 15 years of experience, Heidi creates a warm, trauma-informed, and affirming space where clients feel valued, respected, and empowered to be their authentic selves. She draws from a variety of evidence-based approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Therapy, and Narrative Therapy — always grounded in a relational, humanistic foundation.

Outside of the office, Heidi loves exploring the outdoors with her wife and daughter, hiking, camping, creating, and gardening. 🌿🌻 She is deeply committed to anti-racism, anti-oppression practices, and continually learning to support clients of all identities with dignity and care.

Heidi is now accepting new clients both in-office and via telehealth — we’re so excited for you to meet her! 💬

Have you ever had a scary, unwanted thought about your baby—and immediately felt ashamed or terrified?You’re not a bad p...
04/23/2025

Have you ever had a scary, unwanted thought about your baby—and immediately felt ashamed or terrified?
You’re not a bad parent.
You’re not dangerous.
You might be experiencing Postpartum OCD—and you’re not alone.

Postpartum OCD is a lesser-known but very real mental health condition that affects many new parents. It often shows up as intrusive thoughts:
🌀 “What if I drop the baby?”
🌀 “What if I snap and hurt them?”
🌀 “Does having this thought mean something is wrong with me?”

These thoughts feel so upsetting because they go against everything you value—and that’s exactly why it’s OCD.

In our newest blog post, we break down:
✨ What postpartum OCD actually is
✨ Why it’s so misunderstood
✨ How effective therapies like ERP, ACT, mindfulness, and I-CBT can help
✨ And what recovery can look like

If you’ve been suffering in silence, this is for you.
Read the full post now, link in bio, or visit ocdmn.com/blog.

Therapists—Want to feel confident treating OCD? ⭐️Join Erin Venker, MA, LPCC for an 8-week Virtual Live Intensive OCD Tr...
03/18/2025

Therapists—Want to feel confident treating OCD? ⭐️

Join Erin Venker, MA, LPCC for an 8-week Virtual Live Intensive OCD Training and gain essential skills in assessment, diagnosis, and evidence-based treatment. This course covers ERP, I-CBT, ACT, and mindfulness—with real case examples, demonstrations, and hands-on tools to improve your practice.

📅 Wednesdays | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM CST | 4/23 - 6/11

💻 Live & Virtual (recordings available!)

🎓 Earn 12 CEUs (MN Board of Social Work, BBHT, MFT & Board of Psychology approved)

💲 $400 (or 2 payments of $200)

🔥 Early Bird: Save $50 with code OCDMN50 (Register by April 1st!)

👥 Group discounts available

📩 Don’t miss out—register now! ➡️ www.ocdmn.com/ce-course-offerings

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