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OCD Therapy Ventura
With Teva Johnstone

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OCD Therapy Ventura With Teva Johnstone

Help for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Phobias, and Anxiety

Are you suffering from unwanted thoughts, compulsive behavior, or anxious rumination? Do you feel as though you are trapped in a spiral of anxiety and use rituals or avoidance to feel safe? I can help.

Licensed Therapist and OCD Specialist

I’m Teva Johnstone, Licensed Clinical Social Worker*. As a psychotherapist in Ventura, I help people suffering from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Behavioral Addictions involving compulsive online behavior and emotional eating. I offer in-person and online therapy in California to help you understand your struggles and take back your agency from habitual patterns. I’m so glad you landed here!

With a warm and straightforward approach, I treat adults, teens, and families impacted by OCD, internet addiction, and compulsive eating. I work with personality traits like unhelpful perfectionism, over control, and black & white thinking that strains your relationships and keep you stuck.

I can assist your recovery from time consuming rituals, rumination, and avoidance. Together we will explore your particular obsessive-compulsive difficulties and collaborate on a plan forward. We will take gradual but concrete steps towards recovery using highly effective, personalized, and empirically supported treatment.

*Teva Johnstone, Licensed Clinical Social Worker No. 103826

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Specializing in OCD & Related Disorders

Exposure Therapy in Ventura

As a psychotherapist in Ventura with specialized training in the treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, I practice exposure-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy guided by your values and goals.

I use an integrative approach to the gold standard treatment for OCD, Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). This means I view you as a whole person who is more than symptoms, diagnoses, or behaviors. With a holistic treatment approach, I can help you learn to stop avoiding life so you can have deeper relationships and go after meaningful pursuits.

ERP is the first-line evidence-based treatment for OCD. Treatment planning is collaborative and rooted in your unique concerns, cultural values, and ideas about the life you want to live.

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Compassionate Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in Ventura

Get Help for OCD and Compulsive Behavior

With over a decade of experience as a therapist, my style is warm, direct, and forward moving. When using structured therapies like ERP, I maintain a relational approach and tailor treatment for your individual needs.

I provide a space where you are safe to share things that are embarrassing, scary, or taboo. I offer appropriate validation of your pain, but my approach is more than exclusive validation. People who work with me are gently challenged to grow, with the understanding therapy is about change and resilience.

While in treatment at my office in Ventura or via Telehealth anywhere in California, you will be supported as you do the work of learning new patterns of behavior and self-compassion. Together, we will take deliberate steps to help you break free from life-limiting compulsive behavior, harsh self-criticism, and anxious avoidance.

In Person and Online Therapy

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Internet Addiction and Compulsive Use
Emotional and Stress Eating

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“I urge you to find a way to immerse yourself fully in the life that you’ve been given. To stop running from whatever you’re trying to escape, and instead to stop, and turn, and face whatever it is. Then I dare you to walk toward it.”

— Anna Lembke, MD

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Take the First Step Towards Freedom With Exposure-Based CBT in Ventura & Santa Barbara Counties

Break Free From Stuck Patterns With Psychotherapy for the OCD Spectrum

It can be hard to imagine recovery when you’ve been stuck in obsessive-compulsive patterns for a while. It’s important to know you are not alone and highly effective treatment is available both in person and online.

Exposure-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps us learn mastery over things that challenge us. We learn we can leave the prison of rumination, rituals, and anxiety-fueled avoidance. While facing our fears may seem daunting at first, this is a crucial step towards freedom.

Many of the people I treat are located in Ventura County, in the cities of Ventura, Ojai, Oxnard, Camarillo, Newbury Park, and Thousand Oaks. I provide in person therapy at my office in Ventura (near Ventura College) and via secure Zoom across California. I work with people in Los Angeles and the Bay Area.

If you're searching for an OCD Specialist in Ventura, Santa Barbara, or anywhere in California, I’d be happy to support your recovery. Contact me to schedule an intake session or join the waitlist.