Dr. Lindsay McLeod |

Helping People with OCD Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is a challenging condition characterized by distressing, intrusive thoughts and/or repetitive, compulsive physical or mental actions.

Dr. Lindsay McLeod After 13 years at a community mental health clinic specializing in assessment and therapy for mood and anxiety concerns, addictions, and relationship issues, I am now in private practice full-time.

Therapy is about change Therapy involves figuring out what we can and can’t change. Sometimes changing situations makes the most sense. When we can’t change our situation, we are called on to change ourselves.

It's OK to laugh in therapy Sometimes laughter emerges unexpected even in the toughest emotional material and conversations. It’s amazing to witness someone who lost their sense of humour and ability to laugh find it again.

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Even Psychologists get Angry

Anger, like our other emotions, is supposed to help us. We’re all biologically hard-wired to feel it. So how can things go so wrong with it? It’s meant to mobilize and prepare us for dealing with threats. [button text=”read more” link=”anger/even-psychologists-get-angry” style=”primary” size=”normal” target=”_self” display=”inline” icon=”no”] [/span3] [span3]

Emotion Coaching

Individuals who are emotion-dismissing believe that one should be able to choose and control emotion with willpower, value action over introspection, deny their needs which are seen as weak, have an impoverished emotion lexicon, endorse a “suck it up” attitude, and see emotion expression as losing control. [button text=”read more” link=”communication-skills/from-emotion-dismissing-to-emotion-coaching” style=”primary” size=”normal” target=”_self” display=”inline” icon=”no”] [/span3] [span3]

Check your Beliefs

I often help clients identify and question ideas and beliefs that are limiting them in some way and don’t serve them well. I enlist clients to be co-detectives on the hunt for these beliefs that can impact emotional well-being and behaviours. They can be sneaky and hard to spot. [button text=”read more” link=”stigma/check-your-beliefs” style=”primary” size=”normal” target=”_self” display=”inline” icon=”no”] [/span3] [/row_in] [/span9] [span3]

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