Ontario OCD & Anxiety Therapy
by Registered Psychologists & Psychotherapists
Welcome to Turning Point
We are a team of licensed psychologists and psychotherapists dedicated to helping people overcome OCD and related disorders, anxiety, and other mental health concerns.
Using proven, evidence-based treatments including CBT, ERP, ACT, and ICBT, we care focused on skills, behavioural change, and long-term progress
Based in Ontario, we also offer online therapy to clients in Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nunavut, and internationally.
Below is an overview of the main conditions we work with, including OCD and related presentations, anxiety disorders, and body-focused repetitive behaviours.
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We deliver highly specialised, evidence-based treatment for all OCD types, including “pure-O” presentations, such as:
Real-event OCD, relationship OCD (ROCD), hit-and-run OCD, existential OCD, POCD, HOCD (SO-OCD), gender (transgender) OCD, religious/scrupulosity OCD, false memory OCD, contamination OCD, emotional contamination, sensorimotor/hyperawareness OCD, checking OCD, counting OCD, magical/superstitious OCD, harm OCD, perinatal and postpartum OCD, fear of going crazy or losing one’s mind, mental health OCD, disgust OCD, health anxiety, health OCD, just-right (exactness, perfection, symmetry) OCD, fear of saying a wrong or offensive thing, fear of accidentally getting pregnant or impregnating someone, staring OCD, peripheral vision OCD, Visual Tourettic OCD (VTO), Incel OCD, compulsive speech OCD, suicidal OCD, and all other OCD presentations and OCD-related disorders, such as body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) and misophonia.
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Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), illness anxiety, social anxiety, panic disorder, agoraphobia, emetophobia (fear of vomiting), paruresis (shy bladder syndrome).
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Skin picking (excoriation), hair pulling (trichotillomania), nail-biting, cheek chewing, lip biting, tongue biting, nose picking, nail picking, and others.
We also work with major depressive disorder, low self-esteem, relationship issues, perfectionism, life stressors, parenting issues, and other general concerns.
Our main modalities are:
ComB and HRT for body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs)
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We provide individual and group therapy to children, teens, and adults as well as psychological assessments and treatment to workers who have a WSIB registered claim.
Our services are provided by registered psychologists, registered psychotherapists (RP), or under the supervision of a registered psychologist.
It is easy to book a Telehealth session with just a few clicks through our Online Scheduling.
Meet our Team of Therapists
Pouya Bakhshaei, MD, MPsy, Registered Psychotherapist
Sarah Yakubov, MACP, Registered Psychotherapist
Lindsay Saunders, MPsy., RP (Qualifying)
Bevlyn Hetz, MACP, RP
Mandy Taylor, M.Ed, C.Psych