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OCD Training at Austin Anxiety and OCD Specialists

It's summer, and our awesome team is busy doing amazing things! Training, expanding the accessibility of evidence-based treatment for anxiety and OCD, and giving back to our community are values that are especially important to us at Austin Anxiety and OCD Specialists. This month we are excited to spotlight our two amazing therapists, Rebecca Athanason, LCSW and Jhana Rice, LPC, who are doing just that!

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Is Your Desire For Reassurance Keeping Your Anxiety Alive? 

“Do you think I’m going to be okay?”

That’s a real text (or at least a variation of one) that I sent to my mom, every day (sometimes multiple times per day) throughout the entirety of my college career. I was deep in an anxiety spiral that I had no real insight into, beyond that creeping feeling of “something is wrong.” At the time, I had no inkling that there could be a version of life where anxiety didn’t have such a strong impact on me.

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