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Hi all,

I haven't posted for a while but my wife's OCD has become worse recently and it is breaking us apart. She suffers from contamination OCD and what I have heard called 'magical thinking' (e.g. if I don't turn the car round my Mum will die). I won't go in to how it is affecting our lives but it is a nightmare.

She was seeing a CBT therapist for some time and was then persuaded to try EMDR which hasn't helped. We have seen a fantastic consultant psychiatrist who has convinced my wife to use an SSRI (which she is now on) and has said she must find a CBT therapist with specialist OCD knowledge. The problem is they all seem to be in London and we are in the East of England. And even those in London don't have any appointments for at least a month or often more - we have tried all of them. it is so hard at the moment with her getting no support and we are not sure what to do.

Can anyone recommend a specialist CBT therapist ideally in the East of England (Cambridge, Norwich, Ipswich etc.) or someone who will work over Skype or similar. Or any other advice.

Thank you so much...

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Hi stepforward.

Slap my wrist for saying 'we told you so' over the EMDR. :( 

The well-known specialists do tend to be based in London or the South East, but there will be lesser known therapists in your area who have good OCD knowledge. Finding them is, I'm afraid, usually a matter of asking each potential therapist for their credentials and to describe how they approach OCD. Then you have to use your own knowledge based on reading books and the forums to decide whether the approach is the right one for your wife or not.

A good place to start is to have a read through this page on finding a therapist from the charity's main webpages. 

I'd recommend face-to-face over Skype initially if you can get it. I think Skype and telephone sessions can be excellent, but they probably work best when the sufferer already has a good idea of what CBT entails, so perhaps better for top-up or follow-up sessions than for getting started. (Just my opinion.) 

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