Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD) Therapists in Richmond, CA
I have experience working with men, young adults and teens with a variety of mental health-related challenges and complex life circumstances including Men's Issues, Depression, Anxiety, OCD, Divorce, and overall stress to name a few.
During the first session, we will work on brief introductions and begin exploring and navigating the specific problems you're facing. We will work on creating specific goals that will help direct your treatment.
I have experience working with men, young adults and teens with a variety of mental health-related challenges and complex life circumstances including Men's Issues, Depression, Anxiety, OCD, Divorce, and overall stress to name a few.
During the first session, we will work on brief introductions and begin exploring and navigating the specific problems you're facing. We will work on creating specific goals that will help direct your treatment.
I also provide Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD, including intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors.
You’re the one people think has it together. Meanwhile, your mind keeps running through worries and what-ifs. You replay conversations, second-guess what you said, and try to predict every outcome. Even when you’re with people you care about, part of you is elsewhere, caught in loops of overanalyzing, self-doubt, or anxious tension. You’re thoughtful and self-aware, used to figuring things out on your own, but your mind feels stuck—and you’re tired of carrying it all. You want relief from the mental noise, better sleep, and to feel more present in your life, not just wrapped up in your head trying to manage it.
I also provide Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD, including intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors.
You’re the one people think has it together. Meanwhile, your mind keeps running through worries and what-ifs. You replay conversations, second-guess what you said, and try to predict every outcome. Even when you’re with people you care about, part of you is elsewhere, caught in loops of overanalyzing, self-doubt, or anxious tension. You’re thoughtful and self-aware, used to figuring things out on your own, but your mind feels stuck—and you’re tired of carrying it all. You want relief from the mental noise, better sleep, and to feel more present in your life, not just wrapped up in your head trying to manage it.
Thank you for choosing to embark on your healing journey. It takes strength and self-awareness to seek support, and that courage marks the beginning of a meaningful transformation. I’m honored to walk alongside you as you move toward greater clarity, growth, and healing. In our work together, I take a compassionate and holistic approach to therapy. I believe that understanding our family of origin and the impact of generational trauma is key to making meaningful changes in the present. These early experiences often shape how we show up in the world, sometimes in ways we don’t even realize.
Thank you for choosing to embark on your healing journey. It takes strength and self-awareness to seek support, and that courage marks the beginning of a meaningful transformation. I’m honored to walk alongside you as you move toward greater clarity, growth, and healing. In our work together, I take a compassionate and holistic approach to therapy. I believe that understanding our family of origin and the impact of generational trauma is key to making meaningful changes in the present. These early experiences often shape how we show up in the world, sometimes in ways we don’t even realize.
Hi! My name is Marie Sefton and I am licensed clinical social worker based in the Bay Area. Throughout my years of practice I have worked with individuals and families across a variety of settings, including in clinics and in private practice. I specialize in working with adults who are navigating life transitions, anxiety, and depression. I utilize a strength based approach and integrate evidenced based practice into my work, including motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy.
Hi! My name is Marie Sefton and I am licensed clinical social worker based in the Bay Area. Throughout my years of practice I have worked with individuals and families across a variety of settings, including in clinics and in private practice. I specialize in working with adults who are navigating life transitions, anxiety, and depression. I utilize a strength based approach and integrate evidenced based practice into my work, including motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy.
Thank you for taking the courageous step toward your healing journey. I’m Luisa Acosta, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 15+ years supporting diverse clients. I take a compassionate, holistic, and directive approach, helping clients explore family-of-origin patterns, generational trauma, and relational dynamics. Together, we’ll work through challenges, tap into your strengths, set healthy boundaries, and move at a supportive pace toward clarity, growth, and lasting change.
Thank you for taking the courageous step toward your healing journey. I’m Luisa Acosta, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 15+ years supporting diverse clients. I take a compassionate, holistic, and directive approach, helping clients explore family-of-origin patterns, generational trauma, and relational dynamics. Together, we’ll work through challenges, tap into your strengths, set healthy boundaries, and move at a supportive pace toward clarity, growth, and lasting change.
Larry Yavorsky Therapy & Relationship Enhancement
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, RN, MA
1 Endorsed
Richmond, CA 94806
You can be happier, healthier & find life more fulfilling, by engaging in therapy with Larry Yavorsky. I am LMFT and RN with 40 years of experience in the areas of enhancing individual, sexual, and relationship health and satisfaction. I invite you to call me at (510) 401-3935 for free phone consultation. My passion is to help clients explore and understand themselves, to become free of troubling symptoms and of relationship distress. Using methods which promote emotional, mental, and physical awareness and health, I have had success in treating a wide range of issues such as depression, anxiety,PTSD, relationship/sexual distress.
You can be happier, healthier & find life more fulfilling, by engaging in therapy with Larry Yavorsky. I am LMFT and RN with 40 years of experience in the areas of enhancing individual, sexual, and relationship health and satisfaction. I invite you to call me at (510) 401-3935 for free phone consultation. My passion is to help clients explore and understand themselves, to become free of troubling symptoms and of relationship distress. Using methods which promote emotional, mental, and physical awareness and health, I have had success in treating a wide range of issues such as depression, anxiety,PTSD, relationship/sexual distress.
I believe therapy is the opportunity to be selfishly authentic in explaining how you're feeling and get feedback based on those thoughts that can be hard to share with the people in your life. I'm not sure what brought you to look for a therapist, maybe a big change, losing someone, or just feeling ready to see if a therapeutic relationship can help you move through some things, but I'm glad you're here.
I believe therapy is the opportunity to be selfishly authentic in explaining how you're feeling and get feedback based on those thoughts that can be hard to share with the people in your life. I'm not sure what brought you to look for a therapist, maybe a big change, losing someone, or just feeling ready to see if a therapeutic relationship can help you move through some things, but I'm glad you're here.
I work with clients from a client-centered approach which is intended to provide the safe space needed for healing. Together we will target debilitating symptoms. I work with adolescents and adults in individual and family settings. and couples seeking support in their relationship. I work with people seeking awareness on how to improve their life and support in achieving their goals. Together we will restore healthy lifestyle patterns and plan for future success. Teens, adults and couples often can suffer from the same depressive, anxious and traumatic experiences, but will need different support to heal.
I work with clients from a client-centered approach which is intended to provide the safe space needed for healing. Together we will target debilitating symptoms. I work with adolescents and adults in individual and family settings. and couples seeking support in their relationship. I work with people seeking awareness on how to improve their life and support in achieving their goals. Together we will restore healthy lifestyle patterns and plan for future success. Teens, adults and couples often can suffer from the same depressive, anxious and traumatic experiences, but will need different support to heal.
When life gets rough, it's important to know there are safe and supportive spaces you can turn to for support. Whether you're seeking real relief from anxiety or depression, needing help establishing better boundaries, questioning your identity, sexuality, or personal relationships or just having trouble managing the day-to-day, we can help. At Life by Design Therapy we believe change is possible for you. We offer holistic and somatic therapy to support you in navigating life's challenges without having to dismiss, avoid, or disconnect from what you truly want. It's time to live life on your own terms and Create A Life You Love!
When life gets rough, it's important to know there are safe and supportive spaces you can turn to for support. Whether you're seeking real relief from anxiety or depression, needing help establishing better boundaries, questioning your identity, sexuality, or personal relationships or just having trouble managing the day-to-day, we can help. At Life by Design Therapy we believe change is possible for you. We offer holistic and somatic therapy to support you in navigating life's challenges without having to dismiss, avoid, or disconnect from what you truly want. It's time to live life on your own terms and Create A Life You Love!
My ideal clients are people who are tired of just “knowing better” but still feeling stuck. They’re often high-functioning, self-aware, and deeply thoughtful—but underneath that, they’re dealing with anxiety, depression, anger, shame, or emotional overwhelm.
A big part of my work centers people of color who haven’t always had spaces where their emotions could be fully expressed or understood. That said, my space is for anybody who’s ready to slow down, feel, and actually shift how they experience life—not just talk about it.
Most of my clients come in because something isn’t working anymore.
They might be:
• Repeating patterns in
My ideal clients are people who are tired of just “knowing better” but still feeling stuck. They’re often high-functioning, self-aware, and deeply thoughtful—but underneath that, they’re dealing with anxiety, depression, anger, shame, or emotional overwhelm.
A big part of my work centers people of color who haven’t always had spaces where their emotions could be fully expressed or understood. That said, my space is for anybody who’s ready to slow down, feel, and actually shift how they experience life—not just talk about it.
Most of my clients come in because something isn’t working anymore.
They might be:
• Repeating patterns in
A satisfactory relationship to one's self is the most significant element in finding a way through life's challenges. Sometimes this pathway feels chaotic, confused, conflicted, or just not strong enough. Sometimes life experiences overwhelm our capacities to contain and reflect on their meaning for us in a way that keeps us from our potential as persons, as partners, or as an employee/job holder. Therapy offers an opportunity to listen to yourself in an uniquely individual, finely-tuned, non-judgmental way. Fears, sadnesses, and blocked places may all find they have something important to reveal to us when explored in a therapeutic relationship.
A satisfactory relationship to one's self is the most significant element in finding a way through life's challenges. Sometimes this pathway feels chaotic, confused, conflicted, or just not strong enough. Sometimes life experiences overwhelm our capacities to contain and reflect on their meaning for us in a way that keeps us from our potential as persons, as partners, or as an employee/job holder. Therapy offers an opportunity to listen to yourself in an uniquely individual, finely-tuned, non-judgmental way. Fears, sadnesses, and blocked places may all find they have something important to reveal to us when explored in a therapeutic relationship.
With twenty plus years of experience, I have had the pleasure of working with many clients from various cultural contexts. As a Latina, I am very familiar with the psycho social contexts and cultural considerations needed for culturally competent therapy. Since my practice is very close to U.C. Berkeley, I have also enjoyed working with many graduate and undergraduate students as well as adolescents in both school and private practice settings.
With twenty plus years of experience, I have had the pleasure of working with many clients from various cultural contexts. As a Latina, I am very familiar with the psycho social contexts and cultural considerations needed for culturally competent therapy. Since my practice is very close to U.C. Berkeley, I have also enjoyed working with many graduate and undergraduate students as well as adolescents in both school and private practice settings.
You might be navigating OCD, parenting an anxious child, exploring non-monogamy, or changes in your relationships.
My path to becoming a therapist wasn’t linear. I spent nearly a decade in other fields, including herbal medicine, landscape architecture, and environmental justice. I came to this work after years exploring how people heal — through land, plants, community, and justice — and those experiences continue to shape the lens I bring into the therapy room.
You might be navigating OCD, parenting an anxious child, exploring non-monogamy, or changes in your relationships.
My path to becoming a therapist wasn’t linear. I spent nearly a decade in other fields, including herbal medicine, landscape architecture, and environmental justice. I came to this work after years exploring how people heal — through land, plants, community, and justice — and those experiences continue to shape the lens I bring into the therapy room.
I have been doing individual and couple therapy for over thirty years. I use a variety of therapeutic approaches, always choosing the one that best suits the client's immediate needs. These modalities range from psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral to narrative and existential. There is even some dream, and hypnotherapy added when helpful. In addition to my clinical practice, I have extensive forensic psychology experience, including resolving workplace disputes, custody issues, and trial consulting. My goal is to help clients find meaningful solutions to challenging life problems.
I have been doing individual and couple therapy for over thirty years. I use a variety of therapeutic approaches, always choosing the one that best suits the client's immediate needs. These modalities range from psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral to narrative and existential. There is even some dream, and hypnotherapy added when helpful. In addition to my clinical practice, I have extensive forensic psychology experience, including resolving workplace disputes, custody issues, and trial consulting. My goal is to help clients find meaningful solutions to challenging life problems.
Reach Your Goal Now with Dr. Cio! Whether it is learning to love yourself, love your life, preparing for a marathon, improving your relationships, making a new relationship with a challenging diagnosis, traumatic experience, changing body, or you want to pass that big test that is holding you back from your future, I have helped thousands of people reach their goals. I would be honored to help you reach your your goal now. I also specialize in immigration evaluations and teach a course for others wanting to add to their practice.
Reach Your Goal Now with Dr. Cio! Whether it is learning to love yourself, love your life, preparing for a marathon, improving your relationships, making a new relationship with a challenging diagnosis, traumatic experience, changing body, or you want to pass that big test that is holding you back from your future, I have helped thousands of people reach their goals. I would be honored to help you reach your your goal now. I also specialize in immigration evaluations and teach a course for others wanting to add to their practice.
Welcome, and thank you for your interest in me as your therapist. I am a bilingual (English/ Spanish) Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in California. I work with individuals navigating life transitions, relationships, stress, depression, anxiety, and trauma. My approach is client-centered, multicultural, and strengths-based—grounded in compassion and guided by curiosity. When you’re ready, I’m here to provide a safe and supportive space where you can explore, heal, and move toward thriving.
Welcome, and thank you for your interest in me as your therapist. I am a bilingual (English/ Spanish) Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in California. I work with individuals navigating life transitions, relationships, stress, depression, anxiety, and trauma. My approach is client-centered, multicultural, and strengths-based—grounded in compassion and guided by curiosity. When you’re ready, I’m here to provide a safe and supportive space where you can explore, heal, and move toward thriving.
Hello, I am Lisa LaMoreaux Bergfeld LMFT. I work with individuals, couples, and families of all ages to help them conquer their life's challenges. I am here to help you learn new ways to navigate your journey through life in a healthier and more productive way. During our initial session, I listen to my client's concerns and their reason for seeking therapy at this time. From there we set goals to create some positive change towards the client's goals. I welcome anyone who wants to better themselves and their relationships. I am here to help my clients restore brokenness in any relationship.
Hello, I am Lisa LaMoreaux Bergfeld LMFT. I work with individuals, couples, and families of all ages to help them conquer their life's challenges. I am here to help you learn new ways to navigate your journey through life in a healthier and more productive way. During our initial session, I listen to my client's concerns and their reason for seeking therapy at this time. From there we set goals to create some positive change towards the client's goals. I welcome anyone who wants to better themselves and their relationships. I am here to help my clients restore brokenness in any relationship.
I work with a wide variety of issues including addiction, anxiety, depression, PTSD, childhood trauma, relationship distress, body dysmorphia, eating disorders, OCD, ADHD, and more.
Hi I'm Kristen Telon, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I am a huge advocate for early intervention and looking into childhood for answers to issues in adulthood. I am very passionate about being a therapist and being here to help my clients by being there for them through their journey. My approach to therapy is client-centered because I want to tailor my approach to each clients unique situation. My favorite therapy modalities are CBT, DBT, IFS, EMDR, Family systems, and EFT.
I work with a wide variety of issues including addiction, anxiety, depression, PTSD, childhood trauma, relationship distress, body dysmorphia, eating disorders, OCD, ADHD, and more.
Hi I'm Kristen Telon, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I am a huge advocate for early intervention and looking into childhood for answers to issues in adulthood. I am very passionate about being a therapist and being here to help my clients by being there for them through their journey. My approach to therapy is client-centered because I want to tailor my approach to each clients unique situation. My favorite therapy modalities are CBT, DBT, IFS, EMDR, Family systems, and EFT.
Welcome to therapy! I am committed to treating trauma, anxiety disorders, and attachment wounds with a client-centered and trauma-informed approach. In my practice, I prioritize creating a safe and supportive environment where clients can explore their feelings and experiences without judgment. I'm eager to accompany you on your healing journey. Let us embark on this journey together, as we uncover the strengths inherent within you while addressing the wounds that may hinder your growth!
Welcome to therapy! I am committed to treating trauma, anxiety disorders, and attachment wounds with a client-centered and trauma-informed approach. In my practice, I prioritize creating a safe and supportive environment where clients can explore their feelings and experiences without judgment. I'm eager to accompany you on your healing journey. Let us embark on this journey together, as we uncover the strengths inherent within you while addressing the wounds that may hinder your growth!
My name is Rebecca Tyrrell, and I'm a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Fresno, California working with clients state-wide via telehealth. I work with adults struggling with depression, anxiety, mood disorders, and trauma using trauma-informed therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) to help better manage and regulate emotions as well as navigate the stressors of everyday life. I enjoy working with adults dealing with mood disorders, sexuality and gender, addiction, traumatic experiences, and other significant life changes.
My name is Rebecca Tyrrell, and I'm a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Fresno, California working with clients state-wide via telehealth. I work with adults struggling with depression, anxiety, mood disorders, and trauma using trauma-informed therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) to help better manage and regulate emotions as well as navigate the stressors of everyday life. I enjoy working with adults dealing with mood disorders, sexuality and gender, addiction, traumatic experiences, and other significant life changes.
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How long does OCD treatment take?
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is often treated on a weekly or twice-weekly schedule, depending on symptom severity and the client’s preferences. Some clients may start to see a noticeable improvement in symptoms in as little as six weeks, but it’s also possible, especially in more severe cases, for treatment to take several months to a year before significant progress is made.
What happens if OCD is not treated?
Some people with OCD, especially those with mild symptoms, may find that they are able to adapt reasonably well to life with the condition, even if their symptoms never resolve completely. However, many people, particularly those whose symptoms are severe at the outset, find that their obsessions and compulsions grow more intrusive with time, making it harder to maintain relationships, hold down a job, or navigate the world successfully.
Are there medications for OCD?
Medication can be used to treat OCD. The class of drugs most often prescribed are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, which include fluvoxamine (under the brand name Luvox), fluoxetine (Prozac), and sertraline (Zoloft), among others. In cases of treatment-resistant OCD, other classes of medication, such as tricyclic antidepressants or atypical antipsychotics, may be prescribed. Medication is frequently used in conjunction with therapy.
Can OCD come back after treatment?
Yes. Major life transitions, periods of stress, or other factors can cause symptoms to return or, if they were never fully eradicated, to ramp back up in intensity. For some, these relapses are brief and do not require additional treatment; identifying specific triggers and practicing the skills learned in therapy can help speed their course. For others, returning to therapy for a brief period can help address the underlying stress and strengthen coping mechanisms.