Specialized Virtual OCD & Perinatal Therapy in Florida
Specialized OCD, ERP, and perinatal OCD therapy for clients throughout Florida through online therapy.
✓ Doctoral-level psychologists specializing in OCD, ERP & perinatal OCD
✓Specialized care for complex OCD presentations, including scrupulosity and intrusive thoughts
✓ Online therapy available throughout Florida
When you are dealing with constant doubt, intrusive thoughts, overwhelming anxiety, or fears that feel impossible to resolve, it can feel like your world has narrowed. You may find yourself stuck in cycles of checking, analyzing, avoiding, or seeking reassurance—only to feel temporary relief before the anxiety returns.
At Red Elm Psychotherapy, we provide specialized OCD and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) therapy to clients throughout Florida through online therapy. We also specialize in perinatal OCD and perinatal mental health, supporting people experiencing intrusive thoughts, compulsive behaviors, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm during fertility treatment, pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood.
We frequently work with OCD presentations including scrupulosity, harm OCD, relationship OCD, existential OCD, contamination OCD, intrusive thoughts, and mental compulsions. Our psychologists provide specialized treatment for people who may have spent years trying to find care that truly understands their experience.
OCD & Perinatal Mental Health Specialties in Florida
We specialize in treating obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) using Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), the evidence-based behavioral treatment most commonly recommended for OCD. Rather than helping you organize your life around avoiding anxiety or finding certainty, ERP helps you practice responding differently to uncertainty, intrusive thoughts, and feared situations.
We work with individuals experiencing:
Contamination OCD
Sexual orientation OCD (SO-OCD)
Existential OCD
Distressing intrusive thoughts
Mental compulsions
Perfectionism-related OCD
OCD & Anxiety Treatment (ERP)
Perinatal OCD & Perinatal Mental Health
Pregnancy, fertility treatment, postpartum, and the transition to parenthood can bring unexpected emotional challenges—especially when OCD or anxiety becomes part of the experience. Perinatal OCD can involve frightening intrusive thoughts, intense responsibility fears, repeated checking or reassurance seeking, and an overwhelming need to feel certain that you or your baby are safe.
Red Elm provides specialized treatment for:
Postpartum OCD
Perinatal anxiety
Postpartum anxiety
Intrusive thoughts during pregnancy and postpartum
Birth trauma
Pregnancy after loss
Online OCD & Perinatal Therapy Throughout Florida
Red Elm Psychotherapy provides specialized OCD, ERP, and perinatal mental health therapy online to clients throughout Florida. If you are looking for a psychologist who specializes in OCD or perinatal OCD, virtual therapy allows you to work with our team from home without having to find a local provider with the same combination of expertise.
Our psychologists are authorized to provide telehealth to clients in Florida through PSYPACT, allowing us to serve clients throughout the state.
We work with clients in North Tampa, Tampa, Lutz, Wesley Chapel, Carrollwood, Brandon, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Jacksonville, and communities throughout Florida.
Why Choose Red Elm Psychotherapy?
Finding specialized OCD or perinatal mental health care can be challenging. Many individuals spend years searching for a therapist who truly understands their experience.
At Red Elm Psychotherapy, our practice is intentionally focused on evidence-based specialty care.
Our doctoral-level psychologists specialize in:
OCD across a range of presentations
Our goal is not simply to help you feel better temporarily. We help you understand the patterns keeping you stuck and develop a different way of responding to OCD, anxiety, and uncertainty.
Why Florida Clients Choose Red Elm Psychotherapy
Finding specialized OCD treatment can be difficult, particularly when you are looking for expertise in a specific presentation such as scrupulosity, intrusive thoughts, or perinatal OCD.
Specialized OCD care
Our psychologists specialize in OCD and use Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to treat a wide range of OCD presentations.Perinatal OCD expertise
We provide specialized care for perinatal and postpartum OCD, including intrusive thoughts, excessive responsibility, reassurance seeking, checking, and other compulsions that can arise or intensify during pregnancy and early parenthood.Therapy that fits into real life
Because treatment is provided online, your psychologist can work with you in the environments where OCD actually shows up—including your home, daily routines, and relationships.Specialized care without a long commute
Online therapy makes it possible to work with a psychologist who specializes in OCD and perinatal mental health without having to find a local provider with the same combination of expertise.
Our Team
Perinatal Mental Health & Perinatal OCD Specialist
Dr. Erin Cook is a licensed psychologist, co-founder of Red Elm Psychotherapy, and a Certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional (PMH-C) through Postpartum Support International. She specializes in supporting high-functioning adults navigating the complex emotional terrain of the reproductive journey—including fertility challenges, pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood. Dr. Cook blends advanced diagnostic precision with a warm, deeply relational approach. She has specialized expertise in using Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to treat perinatal and postpartum OCD, helping new and expecting parents safely navigate alarming intrusive thoughts, safety fears, and hyper-responsibility without allowing OCD to dictate their parenting.
OCD & Anxiety Specialist
Dr. Niles Cook is a licensed psychologist, OCD specialist, and the co-founder of Red Elm Psychotherapy. Prior to transitioning to full-time practice, he served as a university professor and the Director of Training at a premier specialty anxiety clinic, where he trained and supervised other doctoral-level clinicians in evidence-based modalities. Dr. Cook brings a highly structured, active, and collaborative approach to therapy, focusing on interrupting the cycles that keep people feeling trapped in their thoughts. He specializes in utilizing Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)—the gold standard for OCD—to treat complex OCD presentations, including contamination fears, harm obsessions, and moral or religious scrupulosity.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes. Red Elm Psychotherapy provides specialized OCD, Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), and perinatal mental health therapy to clients throughout Florida through online therapy. We work with clients in North Tampa, Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, and communities throughout the state.
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Yes. We provide specialized OCD treatment and ERP through online therapy. Virtual treatment also allows exposure work to take place in the environments where OCD actually shows up, including your home, routines, relationships, and daily life.
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We treat a wide range of OCD presentations, including contamination OCD, harm OCD, scrupulosity or religious and moral OCD, relationship OCD, existential OCD, sexual orientation OCD, intrusive thoughts, perfectionism-related OCD, and mental compulsions.
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Yes. We specialize in perinatal and postpartum OCD, including intrusive thoughts, fears about harm coming to a baby, excessive responsibility, reassurance seeking, checking, and other compulsive behaviors that can occur during pregnancy or after having a baby. Treatment focuses on helping you respond differently to OCD without allowing it to dictate your decisions or daily life.
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No. Intrusive thoughts are unwanted thoughts, images, or urges that can feel deeply distressing. In OCD, people are often frightened by these thoughts precisely because they conflict with what matters to them. Treatment focuses on changing your relationship with intrusive thoughts rather than trying to eliminate every unwanted thought.
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Yes. Red Elm Psychotherapy provides specialized Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) therapy online to clients throughout Florida, including North Tampa, Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, and surrounding communities.
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We are an out-of-network practice, which allows us to provide highly specialized, individualized care without insurance company restrictions on session length or treatment duration.
How out-of-network reimbursement works:
We provide you with an itemized receipt (a superbill) after each session.
You submit the superbill to your insurance provider.
Many insurance plans with out-of-network benefits reimburse 50%–80% of the cost after your deductible is met.
Tip: You can call the member services number on the back of your insurance card to ask about your "out-of-network behavioral health benefits."
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The first step is scheduling a consultation. We'll learn more about your concerns, answer your questions, and help determine whether Red Elm Psychotherapy is the right fit for your needs.
Ready to Take the Next Step?
You don't have to keep navigating OCD, intrusive thoughts, anxiety, or the challenges of pregnancy and postpartum on your own. Whether you're looking for specialized ERP therapy, support for perinatal OCD, or treatment for anxiety and intrusive thoughts during pregnancy or postpartum, we're here to help.
At Red Elm Psychotherapy, we believe effective treatment starts with finding the right clinical fit. Schedule a consultation to learn more about our approach and determine whether our practice is the right fit for you..