OCD Therapist in Maine
Specialty OCD treatment is scarce in Maine, and the scarcity is worst exactly where the state lives: outside the biggest towns. This practice brings two evidence-based OCD treatments, Inference-Based CBT and neurodivergent-affirming ERP, to every corner of the state by telehealth, from a therapist licensed in Maine and trained specifically in this work. The checking, the doubting, the mental reviewing, the two-hour rituals: treatable, from your own home.
Help with: contamination & washing · checking · intrusive thoughts · relationship OCD · scrupulosity · perfectionism & "just right" · mental review & Pure O · emetophobia · BFRBs (hair pulling, skin picking) · and OCD in autistic and ADHD adults.
Two proven methods
You have a real choice of I-CBT and affirming ERP. Different people do better with different approaches, and in your consult we'll talk through which one fits your situation.
One therapist, all the way
You work with me start to finish, a named Maine-licensed specialist who knows your history, not a rotating match.
Built for how you're wired
Neurodivergent-affirming by default: your autism and ADHD are respected, and only doubt-driven rituals are treated.
The whole person
OCD rarely comes alone. The anxiety, burnout, or ARFID alongside it get therapy in the same place, from the same person.
OCD therapy across Maine, wherever you are
Join from anywhere in Maine →Live somewhere smaller? You still qualify. Telehealth reaches every town in Maine, from the Midcoast and Downeast to Aroostook County. The only requirement is being physically in Maine during your session.
Amiti Grozdon, M.Ed., LCPC
Maine LCPC #8561 · OCD telehealth statewide
I'm a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor treating OCD, anxiety, and phobias in adults across Maine by telehealth. My approach is direct, warm, and structured: you'll know your treatment plan by the third session, and you'll always know what we're working toward and why.
OCD is a specialty here, not a sideline. I'm trained in both of the treatments this page describes, I deliver them in neurodivergent-affirming form, and I don't hand your therapy to whoever happens to be available. It's me, your named therapist, for the length of the work.
OCD-specific training: Inference-Based CBT / I-CBT (OCD Training School) · Exposure & Response Prevention for OCD & Anxiety Disorders · Autistic-Affirming ERP (Diverge Counseling) · plus ACT for autism and adult ADHD, DBT skills for neurodivergent clients, and ComB for BFRBs.
Book a free 15-min consultationInsurance or private pay, your choice
In-network in Maine with the plans below. Private pay: $200 for a 50-55 minute session, $120 for a 30-minute check-in for established clients. Full details on the fees & insurance page.
OCD treatment for the full range of themes
OCD wears many costumes and runs on one engine: manufactured doubt. Treatment here covers all of it, with dedicated pages for the most common themes.
The visible themes
Contamination and washing, checking and rechecking, ordering and "just right" rituals, reassurance seeking. Contamination OCD and perfectionism OCD have their own pages, and the main OCD therapy page covers the treatment side as a whole.
The invisible themes
Mental review, moral and religious scrupulosity, relationship OCD, existential loops, "did I do something wrong" tribunals that run all day and show nothing on the outside. Doubt-driven, fully treatable, and no exposure hierarchy required, because there's nothing external to expose yourself to.
The OCD-adjacent fears
Doubt-driven phobias respond to the same machinery: emetophobia, choking fears alongside ARFID, the anticipatory side of panic and agoraphobia, and driving anxiety built on "what if."
OCD in autistic and ADHD adults
A specialty within the specialty: telling OCD apart from autistic regulation so treatment never targets your autism, with methods rebuilt for ND nervous systems. The OCD for autistic adults page covers the sorting, and it matters for a large share of the adults who arrive here.
OCD themes I treat
Many people arrive searching for their specific theme. Here are common ones I treat across Maine, each with a dedicated page:
Related anxiety and phobias I also treat
These are anxiety disorders rather than OCD, but they run on the same doubt-and-avoidance engine and respond to the same methods, so they fit naturally alongside this work:
A real overlap, and in Maine a real access gap
OCD, autism, and ADHD overlap far more than standard therapy assumes, and in a rural state the people at that intersection are the hardest to reach. The numbers tell the story.
Sources: CDC ADDM Network (autism identification by state); Dietz et al. (2020) adult ASD prevalence; Hollocks et al. (2019) lifetime OCD in autistic adults; co-occurrence meta-analyses. State figures reflect identification rates, which track access to evaluation as much as true prevalence. Maine has among the nation's lowest densities of OCD specialists, and much of the state sits far from the nearest one, which is exactly the gap telehealth closes.
Two doors into the same recovery
Most OCD therapy offers exposure or nothing. This practice offers a genuine choice, which changes what choosing means.
I-CBT: no deliberate exposure
Inference-Based CBT treats OCD as a doubt problem: it traces how "maybe it's contaminated, maybe I left it on" gets manufactured against the evidence of your own senses, and resolves the doubt at its source. No flooding, no provoking anxiety on purpose, and trial outcomes comparable to established treatments, with particular strength for high-conviction themes. Read the full I-CBT introduction →
Not sure which fits you? Here's I-CBT vs ERP compared, and we'll settle it together in your free consult.
Affirming ERP: exposure you choose
Where avoidance has annexed real territory, chosen and well-paced exposure reclaims it, delivered with structural consent: your list, your pacing, a real veto, sensory pain never conflated with anxiety, and nothing sprung on you. Read the affirming ERP introduction →
Not sure if this is OCD, or which treatment fits?
That's exactly what the free consultation is for. We'll talk it through by phone, no pressure and no commitment, and you'll leave with a clearer sense of your options in Maine.
Book a free 15-min consultationThe nearest OCD specialist shouldn't be a road trip
OCD responds to specialty treatment, and specialty treatment is exactly what rural states struggle to supply: therapists with real OCD training are concentrated in a handful of towns, ERP-trained clinicians are rarer, and I-CBT is newer to the U.S. and harder to find still. For much of Maine, the honest local options have been generic talk therapy or a long drive, and OCD doesn't respond much to either.
Telehealth ends the geography problem outright, and for OCD it's more than a convenience: your actual triggers, your actual kitchen, your actual front-door lock are present in session instead of described from memory. Winter roads, mud season, and ferry schedules stop deciding whether treatment happens. That's true whether you're in Portland or South Portland, Bangor or Brewer, Augusta, Lewiston-Auburn, Biddeford, Brunswick, Rockland, Camden, Belfast, Bar Harbor, Ellsworth, Machias, Presque Isle, or Caribou: same specialist, same treatments, same depth of work, anywhere in Maine.
The Maine practice page covers everything else I treat statewide.
Consult & sort
A free 15-minute call, then careful assessment: your themes mapped, and OCD separated from everything it mimics.
Choose the door
I-CBT, affirming ERP, or a sequence of both, chosen with you, with the full introductions to read first.
The work
Structured weekly sessions from home, doubt dismantled or territory reclaimed, at a pace your system can use.
Make it hold
Gains verified in your life, and a plan for when OCD auditions a new theme, because it will try.
All sessions online via secure, HIPAA-compliant video, Monday through Friday, 8am to 6pm Eastern. You must be physically located in Maine at the time of session; any private space works, home, office, or parked car.
Insurance (In-network in Maine with these plans)
Private pay
Coverage varies by plan, so verify your benefits first. Full details on the services page.
Amiti Grozdon, M.Ed., LCPC (Maine LCPC #8561), trained in I-CBT (OCD Training School) and autistic-affirming ERP, treating OCD, anxiety, and phobias by telehealth across Maine. Meet your therapist →
The doubt was manufactured. Maine-licensed help is a video call away.
If you're searching for an OCD therapist in Maine, this is the work I do: specialty OCD treatment with I-CBT and affirming ERP, by telehealth, from anywhere in the state. The Maine practice page covers everything else I treat.
The consultation is free and short. We'll talk by phone (I'll call you at the time you schedule) and see if we're a fit. No pressure, no commitment.