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The Center for OCD and Anxiety, LLC

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The Center for OCD and Anxiety, LLC

We are a group therapy practice with 4 office locations in the Pittsburgh area focusing on the treatment of OCD and anxiety.

We offer training and supervision to clinicians looking to learn more about OCD and anxiety treatment.

12/23/2025

Anxiety and OCD love to live in the future. They get caught up in everything that might happen later and convince us that today’s tiny details are predicting tomorrow’s worst-case scenario.

A thought feels urgent. A sensation feels meaningful. A small mistake feels like proof. So the mind says: “Pay attention. Fix this. Prevent what’s coming.”

And suddenly, daily actions become driven by fear instead of presence. Checking. Reassuring. Replaying. Avoiding. Over-preparing. Not because you want to—but because anxiety and OCD promise that if you do enough, you can stop something bad from happening.

But here’s the truth anxiety doesn’t want you to know:
👉 Passionate, fear-driven effort doesn’t actually predict or prevent the future. It only keeps you stuck believing that certainty is possible.

Healing begins when we gently shift focus back to today—not as a test for the future,
but as a place to practice trust, flexibility, and self-compassion.

You don’t have to solve tomorrow to live today. And you don’t have to obey every anxious urge to stay safe. 💛

12/21/2025

For people with OCD, the brain often overestimates danger, convincing you that unlikely outcomes are urgent, catastrophic, or must be prevented at all costs.

🔍 A thought like
“What if something bad happens?”
quickly becomes
“This is dangerous and I must act now.”

This isn’t intuition — it’s OCD’s threat system stuck on high alert.

✨ In evidence-based OCD treatment, we help clients:
• Learn how OCD inflates risk
• Tolerate uncertainty without compulsions
• Retrain the brain to respond rather than react

You don’t need certainty to live safely — you need flexibility and trust in your ability to cope.

12/19/2025

Anxiety is not the problem in OCD. The struggle comes from believing that rituals, reassurance, avoidance, or mental compulsions will make anxiety go away.

In OCD therapy, the goal is not to stop feeling anxious. The goal is to learn—through experience—that rituals were never actually solving anxiety in the first place.

With evidence-based treatment like ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention), people learn something powerful:
👉 You can feel anxious
👉 You WILL feel anxious at times
👉 And you can still live a life that is meaningful, connected, and values-driven

OCD treatment is about reclaiming your life—not controlling your feelings. Anxiety may show up, but it no longer gets to decide what you do, who you are, or what matters to you.

If you’ve been chasing certainty or relief, this is your reminder:
💛 You don’t need to feel calm to live well
💛 You don’t need to feel “sure” to move forward
💛 You can build a full life—even with anxiety along for the ride

12/18/2025

Life gets busy. Work, family, finances, fear, and exhaustion can all get in the way of starting or continuing OCD and anxiety treatment. But postponing care doesn’t make OCD or anxiety disappear — it often gives it more room to grow.

Avoidance may feel like relief in the moment, yet long-term healing comes from facing the discomfort with the right support. You deserve evidence-based treatment, understanding, and progress — even when life feels overwhelming.

Your mental health matters, even when life gets in the way. 🤍

12/15/2025

Brian Kane, LAPC is one of our Monroeville based therapists — and he’s a long-distance runner who has completed multiple marathons and half marathons. Brian also lives with OCD, which gives him a unique and deeply informed perspective on both mental health and endurance training.

Through his own running, Brian began noticing how OCD and anxiety can quietly weave into training — everything from feeling the need to hit certain numbers on a watch, to pressure to complete a run “perfectly,” to repeating parts of a route that didn’t feel “right.”

When he looked for resources or research on the overlap between OCD, anxiety, and running, he found very little — despite how common these experiences are among runners.

To help change that, Brian is developing a training for therapists and an awareness presentation focused on how OCD and anxiety can show up in runners during training, fueling, and on race day. As part of this work, he’s created an anonymous survey to gather real experiences from runners of all distances.

If you or someone you know is a runner — especially in the marathon or ultra community — we invite you to participate and share.
All responses are anonymous, and only overall data will be shared.

Survey link via QR code or online here: https://forms.gle/2hGc9syhShARi3CUA

12/13/2025

A new job.
A move.
A schedule shift.
A last-minute plan change.
A more crowded than expected shopping experience.

Both major life transitions and small disruptions to routine can increase anxiety and OCD symptoms — and that’s not a personal failure. It’s a nervous system response. Our brains are wired to seek predictability and control, so when something changes — even something good — the body may register uncertainty as threat.

✨ Excitement can coexist with anxiety
✨ Joy can exist alongside discomfort
✨ Happiness doesn’t cancel out nervous system activation

But with anxiety and OCD, there’s often a tendency to zoom in on the discomfort:
• “Why do I feel anxious if this is a good thing?”
• “What if this feeling means something is wrong?”
• “I should feel better than this.”

That hyper-focus can crowd out other emotions that are present — curiosity, hope, pride, relief, excitement — because anxiety demands attention.

If this sounds familiar, here’s the reframe:
👉 Anxiety during change doesn’t mean the change is wrong
👉 Discomfort doesn’t invalidate positive feelings
👉 You don’t need to feel calm for a transition to be meaningful or right

Both big changes and small deviations from routine can be activating — and both deserve compassion, not self-criticism. Your nervous system isn’t broken. It’s just responding to something new.

12/11/2025

💡 For the OCD Warriors Who’ve Done the Work… and Are Now Scared to Feel Again

You’ve pushed through exposures.
You’ve rebuilt your life.
You’ve faced fear head-on more times than most people ever will.

But now OCD whispers a new lie:
“Stay flat. Don’t feel too much. Feelings are dangerous.”

If this is you, hear this clearly:
👉 OCD is trying to turn emotional numbness into a compulsion.
Not because you’re broken — but because OCD is always looking for a new angle.

Your progress didn’t eliminate emotions; it reduced fear.
And as you start living again, emotions — all kinds of them — will show up.

That’s not regression.
That’s recovery.

🌱 Feeling joy, anger, grief, excitement, disappointment, love — this is what your life was meant to include.
Your nervous system is re-learning safety.
Your brain is relearning flexibility.
Your emotional world isn’t a threat — it’s a sign you’re alive.

You don’t have to “stay neutral.”
You don’t have to shrink yourself.
You don’t have to trade your affect to stay safe.

OCD is the one trying to keep you flat.
You don’t have to listen.

Give yourself permission to feel again — fully, messily, humanly.
This is part of the healing you’ve earned.

12/09/2025

Is it filled with spare keys, tissues, backup contacts, glasses case, pain meds, stain remover pens, three different kinds of mints… maybe even that legendary bag of rice everyone swears can save a soaked phone? 👀

As a therapist, I talk with so many clients whose OCD or anxiety nudges them to prepare for every possible scenario. Today I had one of those moments… I accidentally dumped a full mug of hot tea onto my laptop. ☕💻🔥

And guess what?
Not one single “just in case” item was in sight.
Where were all of you with your emergency rice kits when I needed you?! 😅

But here’s the real reflection:

👉 How often have your just-in-case items actually saved the day?
👉 If you didn’t have that item, could you have found another solution?
👉 Is the item preventing harm — or feeding anxiety’s demand to be 100% prepared?

Turns out I didn’t need a bag of rice today.
(Though honestly? I wouldn’t have said no.)
Instead, I followed a practical drying method, problem-solved, and managed the situation anyway.

This is your gentle challenge:
Take a moment to notice what you carry “just in case.” Ask yourself:
✨ Is this a tool I use?
✨ Or is this an anxiety habit I’ve never questioned?
✨ What might it feel like to try going without one item — just once — and see what happens?

You might be more capable (and more adaptable!) than your anxiety gives you credit for. 💛

12/07/2025

I asked three kids how THEY manage anxiety — and their answers were perfect:

🌿 “Go outside and breathe.”
📚 “Read comics.”
⏸️ “Take a break from everything to calm down.”

And the biggest rule of all?
❌ “You should NOT have to answer a bazillion questions from adults while you’re trying to relax.”

Sometimes kids know self-care better than we do. 💛

12/05/2025

✨ Why Accurate Representation of OCD in the Media Matters ✨

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is not just about being tidy, organized, or liking things “a certain way.” When movies, TV shows, and social media reduce OCD to a quirky personality trait, it causes real harm.

🧠 Accurate representation matters because:
• It helps people recognize real OCD symptoms
• It reduces stigma and harmful stereotypes
• It encourages earlier diagnosis and treatment
• It validates the lived experiences of those with OCD

OCD is a serious mental health condition involving intrusive thoughts, distressing fears, and compulsive behaviors meant to reduce anxiety — it is not a joke, it is not a punchline, but you CAN find humor in it through treatment.

When media gets it right, it educates. When it gets it wrong, people suffer in silence, often believing everything their OCD says about them is accurate.

Let’s advocate for storytelling that’s informed, compassionate, and accurate — because representation can literally save lives. 🤍

If you or someone you love lives with OCD, you are not alone — and you deserve to be seen truthfully.

💬 Comment if you’ve noticed inaccurate OCD portrayals in media
📢 Share to spread awareness

12/03/2025

✨ Ever feel like no matter how much you do… it’s never enough? For many people with OCD, life is approached through a lens of rigidity — rules, perfection, and “just right” feelings that the brain insists must be met for safety to be maintained.

But here’s the truth: OCD isn’t about being hard to please on purpose. It’s about a mind stuck in overdrive, trying to create certainty in an uncertain world.

🧠 When OCD sets the standards, the bar keeps rising.
🌀 When anxiety fuels the rules, the rules multiply.
💛 And when you’re exhausted (and maybe even angry!) from trying — it’s not a flaw. It’s the disorder talking.

If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone.
OCD is treatable, your worth isn’t measured by perfection, and relief is possible.

12/01/2025

Anxiety is a natural part of being human. The real power of therapy is learning how to respond differently to anxious thoughts, feelings, and the physical sensations that come with them.

Instead of getting stuck in worry…
Instead of avoiding what scares you…
Instead of believing every anxious thought…
—you learn skills to pause, observe, and choose a healthier response.

💛 Therapy helps you:
• Understand your anxiety triggers
• Work with uncomfortable bodily sensations
• Shift your relationship with anxious thoughts
• Build confidence in your ability to cope
• Create space between fear and action

Growth isn’t the absence of anxiety.
Growth is trusting yourself to handle it when it shows up.

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244 Center Road, Ste 301
Monroeville, PA
15146

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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+14122568256

Website

https://pittsburghocdtreatment.com/

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