ReImagine Therapy

ReImagine Therapy I'm Jessics Hayes and my company is ReImagine Therapy, where I provide Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

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13/03/2026

This is a type of exposure called an imaginal exposure.

We explain the reasoning behind this and the set up rules in episode 4 of Just Checking, but the basic idea is to write out the worst case scenario in first person with lots of detail, then read it repeatedly until the anxiety eventually comes down.

This one was for me imagining my parents got into a plane crash on their way home from holiday.

This can be used for many types of anxiety and OCD erp therapy for some themes too.

Is this something you have heard of before?


10/03/2026

A little look into how a therapist manages bad days.

For the actual day of disaster, I was pretty much focused on crisis management, lowering expectations, and problem-solving things. I also reached out and pulled in the support I could, because I don't need to be the one to do everything and I am trying to practice what I preach in showing that leaning on support is a strength, not a weakness.

I then focused on getting my kids into bed in a way that was as close to the norm as possible.

Then I focused on everything I needed to recuperate and chill out after riding out the day.

1) Convenience food to make sure I ate something before bedtimes started and also didn't need to cook when I had no energy. Also letting my kids eat it because I am picking my battles today and fed is best.

2) Pain management, because stressful days often also end up being high pain days, and these things also relax my body a lot too.

3) Complete comfort, my escape from reality with a sensory happy texture and weight to really regulate my nervous system.

4) Endorphins from doggy connections and appreciating all that my husband did to show how much of a team we are.

5) Unseen extras- i have a funny video i have saved on social media that I watch when I'm feeling a bit crappy because it never fails to make me laugh. I also voicenoted friends to rant before I started all of the chill out bits to get the frustration out before trying the calmer bits.

What are your go-to ways to manage disaster days and weeks?

09/03/2026

I am sure you have probably heard that you should never ruminate and never Google things.

I get a lot of clients worrying about this and judging themselves when they do.

But these things aren't inherently bad.

Does this difference make sense? What do you think is ok to do?

09/03/2026

If your OCD voice tries to convince you that the reason why your therapist isn't judging you for the horrible memory is because you haven't explained it well enough or because they don't believe it could be true, this is what I would like you to hear.

Real-event OCD, or false-memory OCD, are not talked about enough and a lot of the compulsions are mental and invisible, so people often suffer with it alone.

We discuss this subtype of OCD and explain different mental compulsions in episode 4 of Just Checking, that you can catch from tomorrow at 7am.

Do you have any questions about this type of OCD? Or about mental compulsions?


09/03/2026

If your OCD voice tries to convince you that the reason why your therapist isn't judging you for the horrible memory is because you haven't explained it well enough or because they don't believe it could be true, this is what I would like you to hear.

Real-event OCD, or false-memory OCD, are not talked about enough and a lot of the compulsions are mental and invisible, so people often suffer with it alone.

We discuss this subtype of OCD and explain different mental compulsions in episode 4 of Just Checking, that you can catch from tomorrow at 7am.

Do you have any questions about this type of OCD? Or about mental compulsions?

05/03/2026

Intrusive thoughts about your children don't make you a bad mum.

With intrusive thoughts and perinatal OCD, we want to start lining your behaviour up with the second version on here.

If your the way you respond lines up with the first scary idea, then it is really hard not to believe it.

We often do exposure therapy to drop any compulsions that reinforce that first idea to give your brain a chance to start seeing the second reality.

Over time, you even start to believe it.

05/03/2026

Health anxiety. It can be more likely to occur in neurodivergent people, especially autistic people.

This is because of a hyperawareness of some physiological sensations that many neurotypical people do not have.

So it is easier to hone in on them and panic about them.

This hyperawareness, like any sensory sensitivity, can feel more extreme when overwhelmed and burnt out too.

Have you noticed this?

04/03/2026

I am so glad that people are finding the sunshine is helping their mood.

But I also wanted to highlight that you aren't being negative if you don't get a big mood lift in the sun.

I like to look at it (except at migraine times) but am not a sun basker.

Are you a vampire or sun baby?

04/03/2026

I get asked why private therapy, particularly with someone specialised, is so expensive.

This is one of the factors. We spend a lot of time and money ensuring that we are always up to date on new research, skills and understanding of our specialisms.

We don't just train in one approach, we invest in a lot of different trainings with different approaches and even specific presentations within OCD.

I also take on a lot of really complex cases and so I need to ensure that I have time between sessions to research things relating to individual clients, i do additional reading and research and reflection on my cases, and I also need to ensure that I make space to look after myself so that I can do this work.

Today, I am on another training for how OCD and neurodivergence interact, and how to incorporate this understanding into work with my clients.

This is part of an OCD Advanced Practitioner Certificate that I am currently completing, which covers some really interesting elements and presentations of OCD, and my learning then gets applied to my client work and to how I talk about things on my social media and podcast, to make this information availability for those who need it.

Do you have any questions about OCD and neurodivergence in general, or autism or ADHD particularly?

I will try to answer what they can, or do some videos on it. It also means we will be able to cover the questions in more detail for our neurodivergence episode soon.

02/03/2026

Have you found that erp hasn't worked for your OCD, even though it is often referred to as the 'gold standard' for OCD?

This week on our OCD podcast we explain some things that can block exposure work from helping with OCD.

Listen out for it tomorrow. Does this reflect your experience at all?

27/02/2026

Before we started the , me and actually went to do a podcast episode on OCD for .media . Here is a little sneak peak, message if you'd like me to send the link ❤️

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