Therapy Services
Explore the concerns I treat and the evidence-based approaches used at Murad Counseling. Treatment is individualized based on what is maintaining the problem, not assigned from a one-size-fits-all protocol.
Telehealth for adults in Texas, Washington, and New Hampshire, where I am licensed, and in Florida through out-of-state telehealth registration.
OCD Therapy
For adults whose intrusive thoughts, doubts, or urges drive checking, reassurance seeking, mental review, avoidance, or other rituals. Treatment centers on Exposure and Response Prevention informed by inhibitory learning, with ACT-based skills where they help.
Common concerns: harm, relationship, contamination, religious or moral, sexual orientation, and real-event themes; mental compulsions that are hard to see from the outside; doubt that never fully resolves.
Common presentations: Harm · Relationship · Contamination · Scrupulosity · Sexual Orientation · Real-Event
Anxiety & Panic Therapy
For adults living with chronic worry, panic attacks, fear of judgment, or preoccupation with their health. Treatment uses CBT and ACT aimed at the process that keeps anxiety going, such as avoidance, safety behaviors, and intolerance of uncertainty, rather than only managing symptoms.
Common concerns: generalized anxiety and chronic worry, panic disorder, social anxiety, and health anxiety.
Specific presentations: Generalized anxiety · Panic disorder · Social anxiety · Health anxiety
Trauma-Informed Therapy
For adults whose past experiences still shape how their body and mind respond now: intrusive memories, hypervigilance, avoidance, or a threat response that fires before thought catches up. EMDR, Cognitive Processing Therapy, and Prolonged Exposure are the primary approaches. Which one we use follows assessment and clinical fit, not a menu.
Common concerns: PTSD and trauma-related symptoms, single-incident and repeated trauma, and trauma that overlaps with anxiety or OCD.
BFRB Treatment
For adults who pick, pull, or bite in ways they want to stop but cannot break, whether the behavior is focused or happens without noticing. Treatment uses Habit Reversal Training and the Comprehensive Behavioral (ComB) model to map the triggers, settings, and functions behind the behavior and build specific responses to each.
Common concerns: skin picking (excoriation), hair pulling (trichotillomania), nail biting, cheek biting, and related body-focused repetitive behaviors.
Emetophobia Treatment
For adults whose fear of vomiting has come to govern food, travel, illness, social plans, or parenting. Treatment is individualized and exposure-based, built around uncertainty tolerance and the avoidance and safety behaviors that keep the fear in place, and it is paced with you rather than forced.
Common concerns: avoidance of foods, places, or people; nausea driven by anxiety; checking and reassurance about illness; overlap with OCD or restrictive eating.
Treatment Matched to What Keeps the Problem Going
The treatment approach is chosen based on what seems to sustain the problem, rather than using a single, universal protocol. Exposure-based techniques focus on the compulsions and avoidance that maintain obsessions. Cognitive and acceptance-based strategies address the avoidance, safety behaviors, and intolerance of uncertainty that perpetuate anxiety. Trauma-focused methods deal with how the body and mind store distressing memories. Habit Reversal Training identifies the specific triggers behind repetitive behaviors. Each method is detailed further on its respective page.
Explored in depth on their own pages: ERP Therapy → · CBT Therapy → · ACT Therapy → · EMDR Therapy → · Habit Reversal Training →
Groups and Supervision
Therapy Groups: skills-based and ERP-focused groups for adults with OCD and anxiety, offered in small cohorts as they form. Clinical Supervision: for LPC Associates in Texas working toward full licensure.
Private Pay and Select Insurance
Private-pay sessions are $200 per 60-minute session, and select insurance is accepted through Headway. See Pricing and Insurance Options for the full breakdown, or check your coverage and estimated cost on Headway.
Not Sure Which Service Fits?
You don’t need to know your diagnosis or choose a treatment before reaching out. The consultation is a chance to describe what is happening, ask questions, and decide if Murad Counseling is the right fit. Want to know what the call covers? See Preparing for Your Consultation.
Prefer to ask a question first? Visit the Contact page.