OCD therapists

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, DSW

Mary Smith is a licensed clinical social worker with a doctorate in social work, based in Franklin, Tennessee, with 11 years in practice. She works with children, teens, adults, couples and families on ADHD, anxiety, trauma, relationships, life transitions and self-esteem, as well as OCD, substance use, neurodivergence, PMDD and emotional regulation. She spent nearly a decade working with veterans. Smith offers a shame-free space where clients decide what they want to change; she asks questions, offers fresh perspectives and sometimes challenges thinking, with humor and practical skills. Her methods include ACT, CBT, DBT, cognitive processing therapy and the Gottman Method. She sees clients online.

Psychologist, PhD

Dr. Jacob Rusczek is a licensed psychologist in Montpelier, Vermont, also licensed in Massachusetts. He works with adults, older adults and couples on relationship concerns, depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, life transitions and self-esteem, and also with OCD, eating disorders, personality disorders, dissociation, chronic illness and chronic pain, and welcomes LGBTQ+ clients. Rusczek sees each course of therapy as different and treats it as a way to build self-awareness, since people often repeat painful patterns without knowing why. He listens closely, asks deepening questions and offers observations and connections, working from psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, existential and relational traditions. He sees clients in person in Montpelier.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, MSW, APSW

John Troast is a licensed clinical social worker in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, also licensed in North Carolina and Nevada, with 10 years in practice. He works with children, teens, adults and families on anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, self-esteem, identity and relationship concerns, and also with ADHD, OCD, bipolar disorder, addiction, anger, personality disorders and family conflict, and welcomes LGBTQ+ clients. Troast sets specific, goal-oriented objectives with each client and revisits them regularly to keep therapy focused. His approach is trauma-informed and nonjudgmental, using CBT, family systems, the Gottman Method and mindfulness-based methods. He sees clients in person in Wauwatosa and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW, MSW, MPA

Leisa Barrett is a licensed independent clinical social worker in Morgantown, West Virginia. She works with adults facing trauma, abuse, grief and loss, infertility and substance misuse, along with anxiety, depression, OCD, codependency, domestic violence and women's issues. Barrett aims to help clients restore balance in daily life by looking at how present symptoms connect to past experiences and building coping strategies, with goals set together. She is trained in EMDR and also uses CBT, REBT, attachment-based, person-centered and mindfulness-based methods in a trauma-focused, integrative way. She sees clients in person in Morgantown and online.