Healing is possible
At its core, OCD thrives on uncertainty.
Many people with OCD are highly intelligent, thoughtful, caring, and conscientious individuals. Unfortunately, these same qualities often become targets for OCD's endless demands. The mind becomes convinced that a thought, feeling, image, memory, or possibility must be solved before life can move forward. The result is a cycle of anxiety, compulsive behaviors, temporary relief, and recurring distress.
Carson O'Keeffe Satterfield specializes in working with individuals struggling with OCD, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and related disorders. Her approach combines evidence-based treatment with deep respect for the individual behind the symptoms. Rather than focusing solely on symptom reduction, Carson helps clients understand the patterns that maintain OCD while developing greater psychological flexibility, self-trust, and resilience.
Treatment includes:
- Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Neuro Linguisitic Programing
- Somatic awareness
- Mindfulness-based approaches
- Poly Vagal Informed Therapy
- Nervous system regulation
With Carson's help, you will learn how to respond differently to intrusive thoughts and uncertainty so that OCD no longer dictates your choices, relationships, and quality of life.
Freedom from OCD Begins with a Different Relationship to Uncertainty
Understanding OCD
One of the most painful aspects of OCD is the tendency to mistake thoughts for truth. People often become frightened by the content of their minds and begin questioning who they are. In reality, intrusive thoughts are part of the human experience. Recovery often begins when individuals stop fighting every thought and start developing a different relationship with uncertainty itself. The goal is not to eliminate every intrusive thought. The goal is to help you live your life regardless of whether those thoughts appear.
Begin the Journey with Carson.
OCD can feel isolating, overwhelming, and exhausting. It can also be highly treatable. If you are seeking OCD therapy in Boulder, Louisville, Lafayette, Superior, Broomfield, Longmont, or anywhere in Colorado through telehealth.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is often misunderstood.
Many people imagine OCD as excessive handwashing or a need for things to be organized. In reality, OCD can take many forms and often involves intrusive thoughts, relentless doubt, mental rituals, reassurance-seeking, checking behaviors, perfectionism, and an exhausting search for certainty. For many individuals, OCD becomes a full-time job. Hours are spent trying to prevent something bad from happening, trying to feel certain, trying to quiet the mind, or trying to solve questions that have no definitive answer. Despite all of that effort, relief is often temporary. The cycle returns. The good news is that effective treatment exists.
you are not your thoughts
Meet in-person in the Boulder, Longmont, Denver Colorado area, or virtually from anywhere in the world for psychotherapy, coaching and hypnosis for trauma resolution and performance.
Common OCD Themes That Carson Addresses
- Relationship OCD (ROCD)
- Health Anxiety and Medical OCD
- Harm Related Thoughts
- Contamination Fear
- Existential OCD
- Scrupulosity
- Responsibility OCD
- Perfectionism
- Intrusive Unwanted Thoughts
- Mental Compulsions and Reassurance Seeking
- Rumination
- Excessive Doubt
- Fear of Making Mistakes
- Religious or moral scrupulosity