You deserve care where you can be yourself.
OCD & Anxiety Center of Minnesota is committed to providing affirming, respectful care across identities, backgrounds, relationships, cultures, abilities, and lived experiences.
Affirming care is part of good care.
Effective therapy requires more than knowing the right treatment protocol. It requires understanding the person receiving that treatment.
We want clients to be able to talk openly about their identities, relationships, families, bodies, cultures, beliefs, intrusive thoughts, and lived experiences without having to edit themselves for their therapist.
Our responsibility is to approach those conversations with respect, curiosity, humility, and a willingness to keep learning.
Our commitment has to show up in the care we provide.
Inclusion is not a separate part of treatment. It shapes how we listen, understand concerns, develop treatment plans, and respond when we do not know something.
Respecting Identity
We use the names, pronouns, and language people use for themselves and recognize that identity is be complex, personal, and evolving.
Understanding Context
Mental health does not exist separately from culture, family, relationships, disability, neurotype, religion, race, gender, sexuality, or socioeconomic circumstances.
Individualizing Treatment
Evidence-based treatment should be responsive to the person receiving it. We consider identity, values, accessibility needs, and lived experience when developing treatment.
Continuing to Learn
Cultural responsiveness is not something a clinician completes. We expect ourselves to keep learning, seek consultation when needed, and respond when we get something wrong.
Identity matters in OCD treatment.
OCD can attach itself to the things a person cares about most, including identity, relationships, morality, religion, sexuality, gender, family, and community.
Good OCD treatment requires clinicians to distinguish between affirming a person and reinforcing OCD's demand for certainty. It also requires understanding when distress is connected to OCD and when it reflects real experiences of discrimination, marginalization, trauma, or lack of safety.
We do not assume every concern is OCD simply because someone has an OCD diagnosis.
There is room for your whole experience here.
We welcome people across identities, backgrounds, family structures, relationships, abilities, neurotypes, ages, and socioeconomic circumstances.
Race, Ethnicity & Culture
We recognize that culture, community, racism, migration, language, and family experiences can shape mental health and the experience of seeking care.
Gender & Sexuality
LGBTQIA+ clients deserve care that respects identity without assuming identity itself is a symptom, problem, or treatment goal.
Neurodiversity & Disability
Treatment should account for differences in communication, sensory needs, executive functioning, learning, mobility, and accessibility rather than expecting every client to engage in the same way.
Religion, Values & Relationships
We respect differences in faith, spirituality, values, relationship structures, and family systems while working collaboratively toward the client's goals.
Trust does not come from a statement on a website. It develops through how people are treated.
Inclusion also means looking at barriers to care.
Specialized OCD treatment can be difficult to find and difficult to afford. Improving access is part of our responsibility as a specialty practice.
OCDMN Access Fund
Our Access Fund helps subsidize specialized treatment for people who may otherwise be unable to begin or continue care.
Ways to Receive Care
Depending on the service and clinician, care may be available through in-person, telehealth, parent-focused, group, assessment, or other specialized formats.
Finding the Right Resource
Sometimes the best care is outside our practice. When we are not the right fit, we want to help identify other appropriate resources when we can.
We expect this work to keep changing.
We will not always get everything right. Our commitment is to listen, remain open to feedback, continue learning, and make changes when our practices do not reflect the kind of care we want to provide.
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility are not separate from our clinical mission. They are part of providing thoughtful, ethical, effective mental health care.
Find a therapist who feels like a good fit.
Our clinicians bring different backgrounds, specialties, perspectives, and approaches to their work. Learn more about the team and find someone who may fit what you are looking for.