Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
At Mount Behavioral Health, we proudly offer Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) Therapy to teens, young adults, and families throughout Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. ERP Therapy is one of the most effective evidence-based interventions in the treatment of OCD, anxiety, and other associated problems, which are aimed at helping patients tackle their fear and develop resilience without letting compulsions take over.
If you have been seeking exposure and response prevention in my area, our skilled therapists in the New York City area are ready to assist you with meaningful curative help.
If you have been seeking exposure and response prevention in my area, our skilled therapists in the New York City area are ready to assist you with meaningful curative help.
What is Exposure and Response Prevention?
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP): This is an organized intervention of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) which helps a person face thoughts or situations that are distressing (exposure) and learn how to avoid responding to these distressing thoughts with protective behaviors.
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Social anxiety
- Specific phobias
- Health anxiety
- Panic disorder
- Eating disorders
- Body dysmorphic disorder
In contrast to other forms of therapies that only concentrate on discussing your fears, exposure and response prevention therapy equips you to experience them so that you take your power back.
How Does ERP Work?
In our ERP-certified facilities throughout the five boroughs, our therapists will walk you through a scientifically effective step-by-step program:
1. Individuation assessment
The initial few sessions will be spent with your therapist as he or she tries to collect information about your anxieties, compulsions, and triggers. We will tell you how ERP is used and help to draw up a plan individual to you.
2. Construction of a Fear Hierarchy
We will identify together what specific situations are causing anxiety and prioritize them from most to least unpleasant. For example:
Mild: Rubbing a knob on a door and waiting to wash your hands.
Mild: Rubbing a knob on a door and waiting to wash your hands.
Moderate: Leaving the oven running several minutes after a cook job.
Both High: Taking the subway in the cold flu season.
This tailor-made ladder will lead you through the ERP process at the speed and comfort.
3. Structured Exposure Sessions
Your therapist will help you overcome your fears by introducing them to you in a controlled environment at a slow pace. Whether you are riding the subway in Brooklyn or go into a busy store in Manhattan, you will practice resisting urges and enduring anxiety until it naturally subsides.
4. Reality Based Exercises
Therapy, with its associated ritualization of and texts about the therapy room, is not the ultimate location of ERP. Your regular workouts will also be customized to work in real-world settings, whether you are in your home in Queens, on campus in the Bronx or even your daily commute in Staten Island.
5. Long-Term Maintenance
As you gain confidence, we will assist you in coming up with tools to avoid relapse and continue with the success even after the treatment.
Exposure and Response Prevention Examples
These exposure and response prevention examples help illustrate how ERP targets your brain's fear response and retrains it over time.
Contamination OCD
Touching a subway pole in Brooklyn and delaying handwashing.
Checking OCD
Leaving your apartment in Staten Island without rechecking locks multiple times.
Health Anxiety
Sitting in a crowded clinic in Manhattan without Googling symptoms.
Fear of imperfection
Submitting an assignment in the Bronx with minor errors and resisting the urge to fix them.
Why New Yorkers Choose Mount Behavioral Health for ERP
Life in NYC is fast-paced, there is a lot of stimuli- the crowds, the noise, the pressure. These daily challenges may feel overwhelming to the sufferers of OCD and anxiety. Our practitioners’ recognize this and tailor ERP treatment to fit the demands and rhythm of the NYC lifestyle.
Our presence is represented with pride serving all five boroughs with both in-person and virtual ERP sessions:
Our presence is represented with pride serving all five boroughs with both in-person and virtual ERP sessions:
Brooklyn
Clinic location in Brooklyn, NY
Manhattan
Convenient telehealth from your home
Queens
Virtual therapy for Forest Hills, Astoria, and Jamaica residents
Bronx
Therapy accessible for Riverdale, Pelham Bay, and Fordham communities via telehealth
Staten Island
remote options and flexible scheduling
Regardless of your location -Queens, New York City, Brooklyn, or Manhattan Mount BH makes exposure and response prevention therapy convenient and effective.
What Makes ERP Therapy So Effective?
- ERP has proven to be among the best treatment of OCD. More experiments indicate that more than 60 percent of patients have a dramatic reduction of symptoms.
- Compulsion, avoidance cycles are specifically addressed by RP.
- Clients become knowledgeable about emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and more healthy coping.
- Unlike using medication, ERP can teach lifelong behavior change.
Ready to Start ERP Therapy in NYC?
Do you or a family member feel overwhelmed by obsessive thoughts, compulsive behavior or fears? ERP therapy can help you. Mount Behavioral Health provides professional, locally available treatment that is available to meet you where you are- both emotionally and geographically.
Call today or book an appointment online to learn how exposure and response prevention therapy may work with you, in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, or Staten Island
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