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Conditions Treated

Conditions Treated: OCD, Anxiety & PTSD

Whatif Therapy provides evidence-based telehealth treatment for OCD, anxiety disorders, and PTSD-related symptoms for clients located in California.

This page is a directory of the main conditions treated. Use the focused condition pages below for symptoms, treatment details, and related resources.

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Main treatment areas

Whatif Therapy Focuses on Three Core Areas

OCD

OCD often involves intrusive thoughts, uncertainty, avoidance, and compulsions. Compulsions may be visible, mental, or hidden.

Read about OCD

Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety can lead to avoidance, checking, reassurance seeking, panic, health worry, and a shrinking life.

Read about Anxiety Disorders

PTSD and Trauma

Trauma symptoms can include avoidance, fear, intrusive memories, hypervigilance, and feeling trapped by reminders.

Read about PTSD treatment
OCD

OCD Conditions and Subtypes

OCD can attach to almost any topic. The theme may change. But the cycle is often similar: obsession, distress, compulsion, short relief, and more doubt.

OCD TreatmentOverview of OCD symptoms, compulsions, and ERP therapy. Intrusive Thought OCDUnwanted thoughts, images, urges, and mental checking. Pure O OCDRumination, reassurance, mental review, and hidden compulsions. Harm OCDFear of harming others, losing control, or being dangerous. Contamination OCDFear of germs, illness, dirt, toxins, or spreading harm. Symmetry OCDJust-right feelings, arranging, repeating, and incompleteness. Relationship OCDDoubt, checking, comparison, and reassurance seeking. Scrupulosity OCDReligious fear, moral doubt, guilt, confession, and checking. Sensorimotor OCDHyperawareness of breathing, blinking, swallowing, and sensations. Existential OCDFear loops about meaning, reality, death, and consciousness. POCDUnwanted intrusive fears related to children and identity. Postpartum OCDIntrusive thoughts, checking, avoidance, and parenting fears.
Anxiety conditions

Anxiety Disorders Treated With Exposure-Based Therapy

Exposure-based treatment helps you practice facing feared situations, thoughts, sensations, and uncertainty without relying on avoidance or safety behaviors.

Social AnxietyFear of judgment, embarrassment, rejection, or being seen. Panic DisorderFear of panic attacks, body sensations, or losing control. AgoraphobiaAvoidance of places where escape or help may feel hard. Illness AnxietyHealth fear, body checking, reassurance, and medical worry. Generalized AnxietyExcessive worry, overplanning, checking, and uncertainty loops. Specific PhobiasFear of specific objects, places, animals, situations, or sensations. PerfectionismFear of mistakes, overchecking, rigid standards, and difficulty tolerating uncertainty.
PTSD and Trauma

PTSD and Trauma-Related Symptoms

PTSD and trauma-related symptoms may include:

  • Trauma memories: intrusive memories, nightmares, emotional distress, and difficulty discussing what happened.
  • Trauma avoidance: avoiding reminders, conversations, places, people, emotions, or activities connected to trauma.
  • Hypervigilance and startle: feeling constantly alert, unsafe, tense, reactive, or easily startled.
  • Trauma-related guilt and shame: persistent self-blame, guilt, shame, anger, or negative beliefs after trauma.
  • Fear and distress around reminders: strong emotional or physical reactions to situations associated with the trauma.
  • Changes in daily life: withdrawal, sleep disruption, irritability, difficulty concentrating, or feeling disconnected.
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ERP Therapy

Exposure and Response Prevention is a specialized treatment for OCD and many anxiety conditions. It helps you face triggers while reducing compulsions, avoidance, reassurance seeking, and safety behaviors.

  • Build a fear ladder or hierarchy
  • Practice planned exposures
  • Reduce response prevention barriers
  • Track compulsions and safety behaviors
  • Practice living with uncertainty
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Prolonged Exposure

Prolonged Exposure therapy is an evidence-based treatment for PTSD. It helps people reduce trauma-related avoidance and regain access to parts of life that trauma has narrowed.

  • Understand the trauma avoidance cycle
  • Approach safe but avoided reminders
  • Process trauma memories in a structured way
  • Reduce fear linked to reminders
  • Rebuild daily functioning
Read about Prolonged Exposure
Telehealth across California

Not sure what you need?

Many people have symptoms that overlap across OCD, anxiety, and trauma. A consultation can help clarify whether ERP, PE, or another treatment path makes sense.

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Matthew Baker, LCSW

Written and reviewed by

Matthew Baker, LCSW

California Licensed Clinical Social Worker #121926 specializing in ERP for OCD and anxiety disorders and Prolonged Exposure for PTSD. View Matthew's professional background.

Content reviewed August 2026.

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