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SUMMIT OCD & ANXIETY THERAPY, LLC
Stop organizing your life around fear and uncertainty.
Summit OCD & Anxiety Therapy is a specialty practice in Bergen County, NJ providing evidence-based treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and anxiety disorders.
Specialized Treatment for OCD & Anxiety
Evidence-based therapy that helps you stop living around your fears
Living with OCD or anxiety can be exhausting.
You may find yourself constantly analyzing your thoughts, seeking reassurance, avoiding situations that make you uncomfortable, checking to make sure nothing bad happened, worrying about your health, or trying to achieve absolute certainty before you can move forward.
You may even recognize that your fears are excessive while still feeling unable to stop the cycle.
At Summit OCD & Anxiety Therapy, this is what we specialize in treating.
We help clients understand what's keeping the cycle of anxiety and OCD going and develop the skills to respond differently. Rather than structuring treatment around eliminating every uncomfortable thought or feeling, we help you learn how to tolerate uncertainty, face your fears, reduce compulsive behaviors, and build a fuller life.
Why Choose Summit OCD & Anxiety Therapy?
Specialized expertise matters
Summit OCD & Anxiety Therapy was created specifically to provide evidence-based treatment for OCD and anxiety disorders.
Our practice offers:
A true OCD specialty focus
OCD and anxiety disorders aren't just conditions we occasionally treat—they are at the center of what we do. Our clinicians understand the patterns of intrusive thoughts, avoidance, reassurance seeking, checking, mental rituals, and intolerance of uncertainty that can keep OCD and anxiety going.
Specialized ERP treatment
Our clinicians are trained in evidence-based approaches including Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Treatment is active, structured, and individualized to help you understand what's keeping you stuck and develop new ways of responding to fear, anxiety, and uncertainty.
Expert-led. Team-delivered.
At Summit OCD & Anxiety Therapy, specialized care is a team effort. Our clinicians receive weekly clinical consultation with Dr. Victoria Wacha, PhD, a psychologist with 27 years of clinical experience and specialized training in OCD and ERP. In addition, our entire clinical team meets biweekly for collaborative case consultation, allowing clinicians to share perspectives, discuss challenging cases, and learn from one another.
Through ongoing individual and team consultation, our clinicians receive guidance with treatment planning, complex cases, and the continued development of their ERP and CBT skills. This team-based approach allows clients to benefit not only from their individual therapist’s specialized training and clinical skills, but also from the collective knowledge, experience and clinical leadership behind the Summit OCD & Anxiety team.
This team-based approach allows us to make specialized OCD and anxiety treatment more accessible while maintaining the thoughtful, evidence-based care our practice is built upon.
Treatment for children, adolescents, and adults
Our team works with children, adolescents, and adults, allowing us to match clients with clinicians whose experience, therapeutic style, and areas of focus align with their individual needs.
Finding the right fit for you
Specialized treatment doesn't have to mean seeing the clinician with the most years of experience or the highest fee. Different clients need different things from therapy, and the right therapeutic fit matters.
We help match you with a clinician based on your needs, age, presenting concerns, treatment goals, personality, scheduling needs, and budget. Our clinicians bring different strengths and levels of experience to the practice while sharing a commitment to evidence-based OCD and anxiety treatment.
At Summit OCD & Anxiety Therapy, you're not simply choosing an individual therapist. You're benefiting from a specialized team committed to helping you make meaningful progress.
In-person and telehealth options
We provide in-person treatment in Englewood, New Jersey, as well as secure telehealth services where our clinicians are authorized to practice.
Find the Right Therapist for You
You don't have to figure out which therapist to choose on your own. Tell us a little about what you're experiencing, your availability, and what you're looking for in a therapist. We'll help match you with the Summit clinician whose experience, treatment approach, personality, availability, and fee best fit your needs.
Every member of our clinical team provides evidence-based treatment and participates in ongoing consultation and professional development in OCD and anxiety treatment.
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OCD Requires Specialized Treatment
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OCD Requires Specialized Treatment *
OCD is more than worrying too much.
Intrusive thoughts, mental rituals, reassurance seeking, checking, avoidance, and the constant need for certainty can sometimes be misunderstood as ordinary anxiety.
That's why specialized treatment matters.
At Summit OCD & Anxiety Therapy, OCD isn't one condition on a long list of problems we treat. It is a primary focus of our practice.
We use Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), the leading evidence-based psychological treatment for OCD, to help clients gradually face uncertainty and feared situations while learning to resist the compulsions that keep OCD going.
Treatment is collaborative and individualized. We don't simply tell you to “face your fears.” We work with you to understand how OCD operates in your life, what is actually happening in your brain and develop a structured treatment plan that moves at a challenging but manageable pace.
Our Treatment Modalities
We don’t just talk about change. We practice it.
Exposure Response Prevention (ERP)
Exposure and response prevention (ERP) is a form of cognitive behavioral therapy that helps you change your relationship with OCD. Together with your therapist, you identify the thoughts, situations, or sensations that trigger your fears and develop a plan to face them gradually. An exposure might involve touching an object you usually avoid, leaving something unchecked, or allowing an unwanted thought to be present.
The response prevention part means practicing what you do next: resisting the urge to perform a compulsion, seek reassurance, mentally review what happened, or avoid the situation. At first, this may bring up anxiety or uncertainty. With practice, you learn that you can handle those feelings without relying on rituals to get through them. Over time, OCD can have less control over your choices and daily life.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps you understand how your thoughts, feelings, physical reactions, and actions influence one another. For example, if you interpret a difficult situation as proof that you will fail, you may feel anxious and avoid it. That avoidance can bring temporary relief, but it may also keep you from discovering what you can handle.
In CBT, we help you notice patterns that may be keeping you stuck. Together, we examine the evidence for a thought, consider other ways to understand the situation, and develop a more balanced perspective. We also focus on behavior: you may practice approaching situations you have been avoiding, solving problems, or taking steps toward activities that matter to you. Between sessions, you put these skills to use in daily life. The goal is not to force positive thinking or eliminate difficult emotions. It is to help you respond to challenges with greater flexibility and make choices that support your goals.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) helps you make room for difficult thoughts and feelings while continuing to move toward the life you want. When anxiety, self-doubt, or painful emotions show up, it can be tempting to avoid them or wait until you feel better before taking action. ACT teaches you to notice these experiences without judging yourself or treating every thought as a fact or an instruction you must follow.
In ACT, we help you practice staying connected to the present moment, stepping back from unhelpful thoughts, and identifying what matters most to you. You then take meaningful steps toward those values, even when discomfort is present. For example, you might choose to spend time with someone you care about while allowing anxiety to come along, instead of letting anxiety make the decision for you. The goal is greater flexibility: the ability to respond to difficult experiences in ways that reflect your values and support the life you want to build.
When OCD or Anxiety Starts Taking Over
You may know that your fears are excessive or unlikely, and still feel unable to stop responding to them.
You might find yourself:
Analyzing intrusive thoughts over and over
Checking, repeating, or mentally reviewing
Asking others for reassurance
Avoiding people, places, objects, or situations
Googling symptoms or searching for certainty
Questioning your relationships, health, morality, or decisions
Performing rituals to make yourself feel “just right”
Feeling trapped by thoughts you don't want
Organizing more and more of your life around avoiding anxiety
The relief that comes from these behaviors is usually temporary. Before long, the doubt returns and the cycle begins again.
Effective treatment can help you change that cycle.
About the practice
Specialized OCD & Anxiety Therapy in Bergen County, NJ
At Summit OCD & Anxiety Therapy, we provide specialized, evidence-based treatment for children, adolescents, and adults struggling with OCD, intrusive thoughts, anxiety, panic, and phobias.
Located in Englewood, New Jersey, our clinicians specialize in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). We offer in-person and virtual therapy in New Jersey and New York, with expanded telehealth access through PSYPACT where authorized.
OCD and anxiety don't have to determine how you live your life.
You Don't Have to Wait Until OCD or Anxiety Gets Worse
Maybe you've been struggling for years.
Maybe you've tried therapy before but never received specialized ERP.
Or maybe you've only recently realized that the intrusive thoughts, checking, reassurance seeking, avoidance, or constant need for certainty you're experiencing could be OCD.
Wherever you're starting, the first step is simply determining whether our practice is the right fit.
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Tell us a little about what you're experiencing, your availability, and what you're looking for in therapy. We'll help match you with the Summit clinician who best fits your needs.