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How Does ERP Work?
Exposure and Response Prevention is a highly effective OCD treatment that clinicians at Reveal Counseling provide in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Maine. For those that commit to engaging in ERP, most clients notice symptom reduction in as little as 12-15 weeks.
But how does it work?
What is ERP?
When first hearing about exposure therapy, it’s common for people to feel scared, worried, or intimidated.
Many have images of them being thrown into the deep end and forced to confront their worst fears via whatever the equivalent is of someone with a fear of heights being pushed out of a plane in a forced skydiving exercise.
I’m happy to inform you that ERP (also known as Exposure and Response Prevention, ExRP, CBT with exposure, etc) does not function that way, for a wide variety of reasons.
Let’s work together.