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.