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OCD & intrusive thoughts therapy

Do unwanted thoughts, repetitive behaviors, or an exhausting need for certainty keep taking over your time, attention, and peace?

therapists for ocd & intrusive thoughts

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Sylvia Kim, Korean-speaking therapist specializing in OCD and eating-disorder concerns

Sylvia Kim, M.S., LPC Associate

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Signs You May Benefit From OCD Therapy

  • Experiencing unwanted or intrusive thoughts that feel frightening, shameful, or inconsistent with who you are

  • Checking, reviewing, researching, confessing, avoiding, or seeking reassurance to feel temporarily certain

  • Feeling trapped in repeated mental rituals, perfectionism, or “what if” questions that never feel fully resolved

  • Organizing your life around preventing feared outcomes, discomfort, contamination, mistakes, or loss of control

What OCD Therapy Helps You Build

  • Recognize the cycle connecting intrusive thoughts, distress, compulsions, avoidance, and temporary relief

  • Respond to uncertainty and discomfort without automatically relying on familiar rituals or reassurance

  • Reduce shame by understanding that unwanted thoughts do not define your character, values, or intentions

  • Build greater flexibility, self-trust, and freedom to participate in daily life without OCD making every decision

Your thoughts are not your identity.


OCD can make you question your intentions, relationships, safety, morality, and sense of self. The harder you work to find complete certainty, the more demanding the cycle may become.

Intentional Therapy provides culturally responsive OCD therapy in person at our Richardson, Texas office. We help clients understand intrusive thoughts and compulsive patterns without judgment or shame.

You do not have to keep solving every thought before living your life.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

  • Overthinking can occur in many situations. OCD typically involves recurring unwanted thoughts, images, sensations, or urges and compulsive responses intended to reduce distress or prevent a feared outcome.

  • Compulsions may be visible behaviors, such as checking or washing, or internal rituals, such as reviewing memories, repeating phrases, analyzing feelings, or trying to prove that a thought is untrue.

  • Yes. OCD can involve unwanted thoughts that feel disturbing precisely because they conflict with a person’s values. Having an intrusive thought does not mean that you want it or will act on it.

  • Intentional Therapy offers in-person OCD therapy at 300 N. Coit Road, Suite 350, Richardson, Texas. Virtual availability may depend on the clinician and the client’s location.