OCD & Anxiety Center of Minnesota

Specialized OCD & Anxiety Therapy

We believe people with OCD and anxiety deserve care that truly understands what they're experiencing. Our mission is to expand access to specialized treatment, reduce stigma, and help people build lives that aren't defined by fear.

Saint Paul + telehealth in multiple states Children, teens & adults Specialized OCD treatment
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Saint Paul, Minnesota
Why Specialized Care Matters

OCD doesn’t always look the way people expect.

Intrusive thoughts can look like worry. Compulsions can happen entirely in someone's head. Avoidance can look reasonable from the outside. OCD can attach to almost any topic. Specialized treatment means knowing what to look for, even when OCD doesn't look obvious.

OCD Treatment

Exposure & Response Prevention

ERP helps you face what OCD or anxiety tells you to avoid while learning new ways to respond to fear, doubt, compulsions, and discomfort.

OCD Treatment

Inference-Based CBT

I-CBT focuses on how obsessional doubt develops and helps you recognize the reasoning process that pulls you away from what is happening in the here and now.

Individualized Care

Individualized treatment

Treatment may also include ACT, CBT, SPACE, Habit Reversal Training, mindfulness, RO DBT, recreational therapy, parent work, and other approaches depending on what fits the person and their goals.

Find Your Fit

Find a therapist who feels like a good fit.

Use our therapist finder to narrow the team by age, concerns, treatment approach, availability, and how you'd like to meet.

Who is care for?

Child Teen Adult

What are you looking for help with?

OCD Anxiety Panic Phobias BFRBs Health Anxiety Relationship OCD Parent Coaching

Looking for something specific?

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The full therapist finder includes additional concerns, ages, modalities, formats, and current availability.

What Treatment Is Like

Treatment is practical, collaborative, and built around you.

Evidence-based care gives us a strong starting point. From there, treatment is shaped around the person, their symptoms, and what they want their life to look like.

You can say the uncomfortable thing.

OCD can involve thoughts that feel disturbing, embarrassing, taboo, confusing, or completely unlike you. Our therapists understand intrusive thoughts and focus on the clinical pattern rather than judging their content.

We pay attention to the cycle.

The subject of a fear matters, but so does what happens afterward: checking, reassurance seeking, rumination, avoidance, reviewing, researching, confessing, or trying to become completely certain.

We practice, not just talk.

Therapy may involve practicing new responses in session, completing exposures, trying things in real-world settings, or changing how you respond to doubt and discomfort.

Treatment should fit you.

Age, development, identity, culture, neurodivergence, family context, previous treatment experiences, and your actual goals all matter when developing treatment.

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Care That Makes Room For You

Good treatment should make room for the whole person.

OCD and anxiety don't happen separately from identity, culture, relationships, disability, neurodivergence, family, faith, gender, sexuality, or the systems people move through every day.

We want people to feel respected, understood, and able to show up as themselves here. We also know that creating inclusive care is ongoing work.

Read Our Diversity Mission
Getting Started

You don't need to figure everything out first.

If you're not sure which therapist, diagnosis, or treatment approach makes sense, that's okay. Start with what you know.

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Find a therapist

Browse our team by age, concerns, availability, treatment format, and other factors that matter to you.

02

Reach out

Request an appointment or schedule a brief consultation with a clinician who appears to be a good fit.

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Figure out the next step

Talk about what's happening, what you're looking for, and whether that clinician and treatment approach make sense for you.

Paying For Care

Clear information before you get started.

OCDMN is a private-pay practice and does not bill insurance directly. If your plan includes out-of-network benefits, you may be eligible for reimbursement. We can provide superbills for clients who choose to submit them.

Private-pay care Rates vary by clinician and service.
Out-of-network benefits Some plans reimburse clients for part of the cost of out-of-network mental health treatment.
Superbills We can provide documentation for clients who choose to submit claims to their insurance company.
OCDMN Access Fund Financial support may be available for eligible Minnesota residents who need help accessing specialized OCD treatment.
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Ready to get started?

Browse our team to find a clinician whose experience, approach, and current availability fit what you're looking for.

OCD & Anxiety Center of Minnesota

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