Chloe Sidoti, M.A., LMHC

Hi, I'm Chloe! I am a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist and I help clients unlock their true potential by learning to manage their symptoms with skillful, evidence-based tools. My work focuses primarily on OCD and Anxiety treatment for adolescents and young adults, ages 12-24. I provide individual Exposure Response Prevention services through the telehealth platform. Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) is considered the gold standard treatment for OCD and other related anxiety disorders. ERP starts by developing a deep awareness of your symptoms and the thought, feeling, and behavior patterns associated. With that, I believe trust and a supportive therapeutic alliance are essential. Through creative techniques, motivational interviewing, I assist you with identifying goals and developing a plan of action for achieving those goals. Once you understand the ins and outs of your symptoms, it's time for the bread and butter of ERP. I encourage all my clients to take a risk and lean into the zone of uncertainty, as we put OCD fears to the test. Together, we team up to challenge the OCD and anxiety patterns. With a gradual, repetitive, and prolonged approach, you work on facing your fears, and practice sitting with your anxiety as it naturally rides out without doing the compulsive behavior you would normally do in an attempt to control the distress. Overtime, you are rewiring the brain and transforming how you experience your symptoms. Essentially, the thoughts and feelings may still be there, but the frequency and intensity of the obsessions weakens and you become free from the need to do rituals. You begin to enter freedom to live the life you want to live. When you reach a place of balance and stability that can be maintained independently, then we develop a relapse prevention plan to close out treatment. Together we explore barriers, alter strategies, and cope ahead for future challenges. Therapy is not meant to be lifelong, but the skills gained are ones that will help you ride the waves of your symptoms as they ebb and flow throughout life.