ADHD in Utah Co, ACT for OCD, scrupulosity, life transitions, values-based
ACT-Enhanced ERP FOR OCD & scrupulosity
🌿 When Your Thoughts Won’t Leave You Alone
🌿 When Your Thoughts Won’t Leave You Alone
🌿 When Your Thoughts Won’t Leave You Alone
OCD isn’t just about washing hands or checking locks — it’s about the loop: the intrusive thoughts you don’t want, the anxiety they bring, and the rituals or reassurance you use to try to feel safe again. Scrupulosity is a form of OCD where those loops center on religious or moral fear — worrying you’ve offended God, broken a rule, or failed to live up to your faith. It’s exhausting, confusing, and can make even small choices feel paralyzing.
At Vital Life Counseling, we specialize in ACT- and ERP-based therapy for OCD and scrupulosity — helping you step out of the cycle of fear and move toward peace, purpose, and freedom.
🧠 What You Might Notice
🌿 When Your Thoughts Won’t Leave You Alone
🌿 When Your Thoughts Won’t Leave You Alone
- Repetitive, distressing thoughts you can’t “turn off”
- Excessive praying, confessing, or reassurance-seeking
- Fear of sin, impurity, or moral failure
- Checking or repeating behaviors to feel “safe”
- Intense guilt or doubt, even when you’ve done nothing wrong
- Feeling stuck between your beliefs and your anxiety
Scrupulosity isn’t a lack of faith — it’s anxiety taking the language of faith and turning it into fear.
💡 How Therapy Helps
🌿 When Your Thoughts Won’t Leave You Alone
💡 How Therapy Helps
Our work blends Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) — the gold standard for OCD — with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to support not just behavior change, but emotional and spiritual healing.Together, we’ll help you:
- Recognize intrusive thoughts for what they are — just thoughts
- Lessen the power of rituals and compulsions
- Build tolerance for uncertainty and imperfection
- Reconnect with your values and authentic faith
- Develop mindfulness and self-compassion
🕊️ Our Approach
🌱 Tools You’ll Learn
💡 How Therapy Helps
We approach scrupulosity with deep respect for your spiritual background. Therapy isn’t about changing your beliefs — it’s about changing your relationship with anxiety so you can live your faith (or values) with peace, not fear.Our therapy is:
- Faith-sensitive — we meet you where you are
- Trauma-informed — addressing shame and past religious experiences
- ACT- and ERP-based — flexible and evidence-supported
- Compassionate and non-judgmental — focused on your growth, not your guilt
🌱 Tools You’ll Learn
🌱 Tools You’ll Learn
🌱 Tools You’ll Learn
- Dropping Anchor: How to ground yourself during anxiety spikes
- Defusion Skills: Seeing thoughts without obeying them
- Values Mapping: Reconnecting with what truly matters
- Exposure Practice: Gradually facing feared thoughts or situations safely
👥 Who We Work With
🌱 Tools You’ll Learn
🌱 Tools You’ll Learn
- Adults and teens struggling with OCD or scrupulosity
- Individuals navigating religious trauma or faith anxiety
- People balancing spirituality with mental health recovery
- Families seeking to understand and support a loved one with OCD
- Telehealth available statewide across Utah