Specialized OCD Treatment to Help You Reclaim Your Life.
Intrusive thoughts, overwhelming anxiety, and exhausting compulsive behaviors can make everyday life incredibly difficult.
But OCD is treatable, and you don't have to face it alone.
My team and I provide Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) therapy to help you respond differently to intrusive thoughts, navigate painful emotions, and break free from compulsions.
Online treatment in MA, MN, TX & WI • In-person appointments in Minnesota
OCD makes us feel afraid, alone,
overwhelmed, and trapped.
Living with OCD means experiencing intrusive thoughts, painful emotions, and compulsive behaviors over and over again. Even when compulsions provide temporary relief, the intrusive thoughts and painful emotions return, leaving you feeling trapped, hurting, and exhausted.
OCD can take many different forms. Do any of the forms below sound familiar?
Contamination (Germs & Substances)
Fears of germs, chemicals, illness, or dangerous substances. Common behaviors include repeated washing, cleaning, checking, and avoiding people, places, or objects perceived as contaminated.
Relationship
Fears and doubts about your relationship, feelings, or partner. Common behaviors include repeatedly analyzing emotions, comparing relationships, seeking reassurance, and avoiding intimacy, commitment, or situations that trigger relationship doubts.
Emotional Contamination
Fears of experiencing or becoming stuck with unwanted feelings or sensations, such as feeling disgusting, dirty, sticky, or contaminated. Common behaviors include repeated washing, cleaning, checking, and avoiding people, places, or objects that trigger these experiences.
Religious & Moral
Fears of sinning, being immoral, or doing something wrong. Common behaviors include repeated confessing, praying, mental reviewing, reassurance seeking, and avoiding situations that trigger fears of moral or religious wrongdoing.
Responsibility
Fears of making mistakes, being negligent, or failing to prevent harm to yourself or others, often accompanied by intense guilt and anxiety. Common behaviors include repeated checking, reviewing past actions, seeking reassurance, excessive preparation, and avoiding situations involving responsibility or the possibility of making mistakes.
Existential
Fears and doubts involving philosophical questions about reality, existence, consciousness, or the meaning of life. Common behaviors include repeated mental analysis, seeking reassurance, researching philosophical questions, and avoiding situations or conversations that trigger existential uncertainty.
Sexual Intrusive Thoughts
Fears involving unwanted sexual thoughts about identity, attraction, or inappropriate behavior. Common behaviors include repeated mental analysis, checking, reassurance seeking, and avoiding people, places, or situations that trigger unwanted sexual thoughts or feelings.
Sensorimotor
Fears of becoming excessively aware of bodily sensations or automatic processes, such as breathing, blinking, swallowing, or heartbeat, and being unable to stop noticing them. Common behaviors include repeated monitoring, attempts to control bodily sensations, reassurance seeking, and avoiding situations that intensify bodily awareness.
Harm
Fears of accidentally or intentionally harming yourself or others, or losing control and doing something harmful despite not wanting to. Common behaviors include repeated checking, reassurance seeking, mental reviewing, and avoiding people, places, or objects associated with feared harm, such as family members, children, or sharp objects.
Just-Right & Perfectionism
Fears or distress associated with things feeling incomplete, imperfect, or out of order. Common behaviors include repeated arranging, correcting, checking, and avoiding tasks or situations that trigger feelings of imperfection or incompleteness.
You’re not alone.
William Schultz, MA, LPCC
I know about intrusive thoughts, anxious & guilty feelings, worry, and repetitive behaviors first-hand. I lived with OCD for 10 years before achieving remission.
Now, I’m a recognized OCD researcher, OCD therapist, and president of OCD Twin Cities. My practice is focused on supporting and guiding my clients in overcoming OCD.
Move forward with confidence.
Trying to directly stop intrusive thoughts and anxious feelings doesn’t work. Even if you’re able to block the thoughts and feelings momentarily, they always come back. To ensure long-term success, you need to learn and master new skills that provide lasting relief.
Learn effective coping skills.
Cultivate a sense of self-compassion and empowerment.
Improve your relationships and overall quality of life.
Get out of your head and back into your life.
Those of us with OCD try hard to free ourselves from the unwanted thoughts and anxious feelings. None of our attempts work. So, it’s common to be discouraged.
There’s hope. With the right treatment, OCD is highly treatable.
By learning new skills, you can gain control of your thoughts and feelings, so you can feel safe and free to live your life.
Change is possible.
Your roadmap to recovery starts here.
With the right support and guidance, living a life free from OCD’s chains is possible.
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Request a Consultation
During your free consultation, we’ll discuss what you’re experiencing, how it’s getting in the way of your life, and explore your treatment options.
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Develop Your Plan
Together, we’ll work together step-by-step to create an your individualized treatment plan.
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Experience Freedom
When you’re no longer held prisoner by your thoughts and feelings, you’re able to live the life you want.
Words from clients and colleagues.
From the Blog
What is Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) Treatment?
How does it work? And how can it help you get your life back?
Take the 1-minute OCD Risk Assessment
Take this 1-minute research-based assessment* to determine if it's recommended you seek professional support.
*This assessment was published by three leading OCD researchers in the Journal of Anxiety Disorders.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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53-minute session:
Brett: $275
Jessie: $275
Meghan: $275
William: $475
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During our first appointment, Brett or William will want to know more about what’s troubling you and what you’d like to be different in your life. You’ll have a chance to ask them questions. They’ll provide you recommendations and, if you continue to feel Brett or William are a good fit for you, you’ll begin to collaborate on a plan to get you feeling better.
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No.
Brett or William will never surprise, pressure, or force you to complete an exposure.
And they’ll never ask you to complete an exposure that they wouldn’t.However, it’s true that the exposures we plan and implement together probably won’t feel good.
And that’s why it’s critically important to that clients understand why they are completing an exposure and then voluntarily choose to do so.
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William provides in-person appointments at his office in downtown St. Paul.
William offers virtual appointments for clients in MN, TX, and WI.
Brett offers virtual appointments for clients in TX -
After your initial consultation, you’ll receive a link inviting you to our client portal. Once you’ve joined the portal, you’ll be able to join our online sessions with the click of a few buttons. It’s easy, convenient, and we’ll walk you through the entire process.
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William offers in-person sessions in downtown St. Paul.
William offers virtual sessions for clients residing in MN, TX, and WI.
Brett offers virtual sessions for clients residing in TX.
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No one can predict precisely how long ERP will take for any specific person. An important factor in treatment duration is how willing a client is to complete their at-home exposure practices.
What is at-home exposure practice? After learning how exposure and response prevention treatment works and participating in several exposures with me in-session, we encourage our clients to complete an exposure every day on their own.
Research suggests that those of us suffering with OCD will see substantial, durable benefit after completing between 60 to 100 exposures combined with response prevention. If you complete seven exposures a week, this means you can expect to see reduced symptoms and improved functioning within approximately two to four months.