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OCD Treatment Dublin

Getting to the root of obsessions and compulsions.

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Professional

Each of our psychotherapists hold at least one relevant masters degree, if not two or more.

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Experienced

Each of our psychotherapists have at least five years of relevant experience.

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Flexible

Appointments can be made throughout 7 days of the week. Evenings too.

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OCD Treatment

OCD can be debilitating and exhausting. A thought arrives that feels urgent or dangerous – and the mind starts demanding certainty.

For some people it shows up as cleaning, checking, counting, repeating, organising, hoarding, or asking for reassurance. For others it’s quieter: mental rituals, endless “reviewing,” avoidance, or trying to neutralise a thought.

Whatever shape it takes, OCD is never generic. Each person’s obsessive structure is unique – it forms around your own history, fears, and the particular things you feel responsible for.

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What Is OCD?

At the heart of OCD is anxiety and uncertainty. A compulsive action (or mental ritual) can bring short-term relief – but the relief doesn’t last, so the cycle tightens.

Usually there’s an underlying sense that something bad could happen unless the ritual is done “properly,” or unless you feel fully reassured. In that way, OCD can be understood as a defence: a solution the mind has built to protect you from something that feels worse than the obsession itself.

The question is: what is OCD trying to prevent – and why does this theme, this fear, have such force for you?

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How OCD Therapy Helps

Many approaches focus only on reducing surface presentation of symptoms. That can be helpful – but it often leaves the deeper structure untouched, which is why OCD can later return in new forms.

Our work looks beneath the surface of the obsession: What problem is the symptom trying to solve? What does it demand from you? What does it allow you to avoid – or feel in control of – even briefly?

By working at the level of meaning and function, our psychotherapy aims for lasting change: not just coping with OCD, but loosening the grip it has on your inner life – so you can live with more freedom.

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About Us

We are a patient-first professional counselling & psychotherapy clinic.

Psychoanalytically informed. Dublin based.

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Hold Masters Degrees

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Combined years of experience

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