Treatment That Targets the Mechanism, Not Just the Story
If your thoughts feel shameful, your habits feel out of control, or your anxiety ignores what “should” work, you do not have to make it sound normal before getting help.
We use Exposure and Response Prevention, EMDR, and Habit Reversal Training because the research says they work.
Consultations are confidential
10+
Years focused on complex anxiety care
3
Licensed in TX, WA, NH, and FL for telehealth
12-14
Small caseload, focused work
CLINICAL SPECIALTIES
Evidence-based Therapy we provide to Adults
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to therapy. Treatment is guided by research, clinical expertise, and the interventions that consistently help clients make meaningful progress.
OCD & intrusive thoughts
ERP-focused care for shame-driven intrusive thoughts, reassurance loops, checking, mental rituals, and avoidance.
Anxiety and panic
Targeted care for overthinking, panic, body alarm, and avoidance that have started shrinking life.
Evidence in therapy matters:
Treatment Starts With What Keeps You Stuck
At Murad Counseling, therapy is not one-size-fits-all. ERP is highly effective for OCD, but it is not the right approach for every concern. Many people with OCD also struggle with anxiety or mood disorders, which may call for other evidence-based approaches, such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. We tailor treatment to the condition, the symptoms, and, most importantly, the person in front of us.
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If OCD is running the loop
ERP and response prevention become central. ACT supports the work when reassurance, rituals, mental review, or certainty-seeking are running the day.
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If anxiety has built life around avoidance
Treatment targets predictions, body alarm, escape habits, and safety behaviors, not just the feeling of anxiety.
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If trauma keeps the past feeling present
EMDR or trauma-focused treatment is paced around stability, tolerance, and what your system can realistically hold.
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If urges and habits have become automatic
HRT and behaviorally specific work target awareness, triggers, competing responses, and the habit loops that generic talk therapy often misses.
Why Us
Therapy That Knows What It Is Treating
Many people come to Murad Counseling after therapy that felt supportive but too vague. They felt understood, but not unstuck. Our approach is different. Treatment is specific, structured, and built around the patterns that perpetuate symptoms. We use evidence-based care with clarity, honesty, and a plan.
Small caseload, more focused work
This practice stays intentionally small, so the work stays focused.
Direct, collaborative treatment
You will know what we are doing, why we are doing it, and what the work is asking of you.
Specialist care for problems that get missed
OCD, shame-heavy intrusive thoughts, avoidance-driven anxiety, trauma, and BFRBs often need more than general supportive therapy.
NEXT STEP
What the First Step Looks Like
The first step is a fit check, not a commitment to start therapy. View pricing.
OCD Is Not One Experience
OCD can center on morality, identity, relationships, sexuality, religion, health, memory, or fears of harming others. The content varies, but the underlying loop is often the same. This is why Exposure and Response Prevention is considered the gold-standard treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Harm OCD
Intrusive fears of hurting someone, losing control, or becoming dangerous.
Sexual Orientation OCD
Persistent doubt, checking, and comparison regarding orientation or identity.
Relationship OCD
Obsessive doubt about love, attraction, compatibility, or whether a relationship is right for them.
Religious or Scrupulosity OCD
Moral, religious, or spiritual fears that turn conscience into a certainty loop.
Health OCD
Fear of illness that becomes scanning, checking, seeking reassurance, and repeated testing.
Existential OCD
Unanswerable questions about death, meaning, reality, or existence that grow urgent.
False Memory OCD
Doubt turns memory into an investigation you cannot seem to conclude.
Sensorimotor OCD
Awareness of breathing, swallowing, blinking, or bodily sensations becomes sticky.
Contamination OCD
Fear of contamination, disgust, illness, or spread that pulls life into rituals.
Pure O / Intrusive Thoughts
Mental rituals, reviewing, reassurance, and private checking are easy to miss.
Therapy Without Shame, Posturing, or Judgment
This practice is for adults who want structured, evidence-based therapy without having to shrink, translate, or justify the parts of life that shaped them. Identity, culture, religion, family systems, shame, and lived experience can be part of the clinical picture.
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Respect is non-negotiable
This practice does not tolerate hate, racism, harassment, or dehumanization. Therapy here can be direct and challenging without becoming shaming.
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Affirming care is clinical care
LGBTQIA+ clients are welcome and affirmed. Your identity is not treated as a side issue, a debate, or a problem to explain away.
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Context comes into the room
BIPOC, multicultural, immigrant, veteran, religious, nonreligious, and historically marginalized clients are welcome. Culture, family systems, belief, and lived experience are part of the clinical picture.
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The full person matters
Symptoms are never treated in isolation from identity, shame, values, relationships, history, and the cost of hiding. The work is structured because the whole person matters.
You will be asked to do real work here. You will not be asked to earn basic respect.
FAQ:
If This Is the Pattern, Start With a Consultation
You do not need the perfect explanation before reaching out. If you recognize the loop, the next step is a focused fit call to determine whether this work is right for you.
Consultation requests are kept confidential.