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Center for BFRB’s, OCD, Anxiety and Eating Related Disorders in North Wilmington, DE

You don’t have to suffer alone or spend your nights googling your child’s challenging behaviors. There are tested treatments that can help you and your family. And when you work with an expert you can expect to receive science tested strategies and treatment tends to be shorter and work faster. We are those experts!

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  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental health disorder characterized by a person getting caught in a cycle of obsessions and compulsions.  Obsessions are unwanted, intrusive thoughts, images or urges that trigger intensely distressing feelings. Compulsions are behaviors an individual engages in to attempt to get rid of the obsessions or decrease his or her distress.

    PANDAS is the sudden, rapid-onset of obsessive compulsive behavior, as well as possible movement and behavioral symptoms, following a Strep infection. It can be treated similar to OCD. 

    Exposure and Response Prevention is the best known treatment available for OCD in children and adults.

  • Body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB) is a general term for a group of related disorders that includes hair pulling, skin picking, and nail biting.  These behaviors complex disorders that cause people to touch and pull their bodies in a way that results in physical damage. 

     Tics are involuntary, repetitive movements and vocalizations. 

    Both Tics and BFRBs can be treated using CBT techniques.

  • I work with transition age youth and adults with the spectrum of eating related concerns. We know that eating disorders are NOT choices but are neurobiological conditions and are genetic. I have expertise in treatments that emphasize the biological nature and work with the teen/young adults many strengths along with compassion and caregiver support to help achieve recovery.

    We can work with individuals who are medically stable and able to safely do outpatient care. Conditions we treat include restrictive eating disorders such as anorexia, ARFID/selective eating, food refusal due to GI pain, traumatic experiences (e.g. choking, fear of vomiting), and bingeing and purging disorders. We are a Health at Every Size informed practice and do not provide weight loss interventions. We work with clients and families to get relief and harm reduction from your eating disorder.

     

  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder (Worriers)

    School Refusal

    Panic Disorder

    Selective Mutism/Social Anxiety Disorder

     

  • We have a toolbox of research supported interventions to help families manage challenging behaviors, such as Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), and SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Children)

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