Turning Point Blog
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We are a team of psychologists, psychotherapists, and social workers offering evidence-based psychological treatment (ERP, ACT, and CBT) and counseling to children, adolescents, and adults.
We will work with you to develop skills to disentangle from your intrusive thoughts and reconnect to what is meaningful to you. We will help you take the power back from your OCD, unwanted intrusive..
Turning Point Blog
2y ago
I remember having a tough time with change growing up. This really stood out when I transitioned from grade school to high school. I don’t know how it started, but shortly after grade nine I found myself having an urge to go to the washroom numerous times throughout the day to wash my hands, and this took up a significant portion of the school day ..read more
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2y ago
You have probably heard of Catfishing – online scams that take advantage of people looking for love online. The scam is very simple ..read more
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2y ago
Confused about numerous anxiety disorders? This is not surprising because there is a great deal of overlap between them. There is also a lot of misinformation going around about what characterizes each disorder ..read more
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2y ago
Illness anxiety (formerly known as hypochondriasis and health anxiety) is a preoccupation with having or getting a serious disorder despite having no symptoms or only benign symptoms ..read more
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2y ago
You may have intrusive thoughts and maybe even some rituals, but your room is unbelievably messy, and you don’t feel you have to wash your hands all the time. And even though your thoughts are driving you nuts, they are actually about realistically dangerous things, things that most people would be scared of happening. And nobody even notices your rituals ..read more
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2y ago
If you have OCD, you have probably read numerous blog posts and books about the treatment strategies for OCD. Maybe you even went to therapy ..read more
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2y ago
If you are a parent of a child who has OCD, you know only too well how easy it is to get entangled in an endless argument where you try to use logic to no avail. You tell your child how unlikely it is that something bad will happen, you teach her to think positively, you reassure her, and you try to help her out ..read more
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2y ago
People tend to think about OCD as a washing, organizing, and checking disorder, the reason being is that OCD is presented this way in the media. But there are numerous other manifestations of OCD that are very common but may not be immediately visible to others ..read more
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2y ago
It happened years ago. You even forgot about it for a while, until you remembered. You spent hours researching how to get rid of the shame and guilt about something you did in the past ..read more
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2y ago
Kristina came to couples therapy to process her relationship with Randy, her boyfriend of three years. She said that the relationship is good in general, but she can’t decide if they should get married. Kristina and Randy tried couples counselling where they worked on issues such as trust, attachment patterns, old traumas, common values and goals, intimacy, and communication ..read more