Contamination/Washing

Intrusive and preoccupying thoughts about being contaminated with dirt, germs, disease, chemicals, or any other unwanted material, which often results in avoidance, time-consuming washing, and/or checking.

sexuality-OCD (H-OCD, etc)

Intrusive thoughts about whether the sexuality with which you identify is ‘true’ or ‘authentically you’ can cause significant distress, doubt, or uncertainty and may lead to avoidance, checking, testing, and reassurance seeking among other compulsive behaviours.

health anxiety

Intrusive or triggered thoughts about illness, disease, or disorder which often leads to unnecessary doctors visits and tests (or avoidance of these) as well as bodily checking, excessive and time-consuming research, and reassurance seeking among other compulsive behaviours.

Fear of harm

Fears of harm to self or others, or the fear that you may be or become a ‘bad’ or violent person, may lead to feelings of anxiety, doubt, guilt, or shame, and can lead to compulsive avoidance, self-policing, and reassurance seeking.

Religious/moral/

scrupulous OCD

This OCD theme involves the intrusive concern that something you may have thought or done is sinful or otherwise goes against your moral code. Related compulsive behaviours may include prayer, reassurance seeking, checking, avoidance, confessing, and self-policing.

emetophobia

Sometimes considered a specific phobia of vomit or vomiting, emetophobia can otherwise be conceptualised as an OCD theme due to compulsive behaviours such as internal checking, food avoidance and checking, as well as some magical thinking and superstitious rituals.

checking

Checking related OCD often involves the fear of catastrophe which might come from not securing ones house, car, belongings, or loved ones. These fears are compulsive checking behaviours are beyond the normal range and can quickly become preoccupying and time consuming.

order and symmetry

Order and symmetry OCD or ‘just right’ OCD includes aspects of perfectionism and involves extreme and bothersome feelings of discomfort and unease triggered by things in your environment feeling or being ‘off’, or out of order, or uneven. This theme can also include body-balancing and mental compulsions in addition to compulsions such as reordering or fixing items to specific rules or to feel.

relationship OCD (ROCD)

Relationship OCD can involve intrusive and preoccupying obsessions about current romantic or other relationships for fear that there is something ‘wrong’ with it and often involves an accompanying urge to end the relationship. Whilst remaining in the relationship there may be lengthy analysis, reassurance seeking, checking and testing behaviours.

Fees and charges

Clinical fees

Fees for initial assessments, reviews, and single sessions for anxiety and OCD treatment are $220- $260 per session, depending on psychologist, and may be eligible for Medicare or Private health rebates.

Medicare and private health insurance rebates

To be eligible for Medicare rebates, you will need a referral and Mental Health Care Plan completed by your doctor. Private health rebates will depend on your cover and you will need to contact your insurer to enquire more about this.