OCD Therapy
With Natalie Saada, LMHC,
and Cushion Mental Health
We’re therapists who understand how frightening and isolating OCD can feel.
We know how convincing intrusive thoughts can become and how exhausting it is to live in a constant cycle of anxiety, doubt, checking, and reassurance seeking.
Do you have intrusive, unwanted thoughts that feel distressing or completely out of character?
Do you find yourself stuck in endless mental loops, trying to figure out what your thoughts mean or make them go away?
Are you scared to tell anyone what you're experiencing because you're afraid of what they might think?
The strategies you've been using to quiet your anxiety may actually be keeping it alive. The more you try to prove a thought wrong or make it go away, the more important your brain begins to believe it is.
Clients Come To Us When They’re:
Living with intrusive thoughts
Caught in endless mental loops
Questioning what their thoughts mean
Seeking constant reassurance
Avoiding situations out of fear
Trying to control or cancel out thoughts
Feeling constantly on edge
Afraid of what their thoughts say about them
Carrying shame or guilt
Scared to ask for help
You don’t need to share every intrusive thought on day one for therapy to be effective.
By changing how you respond to intrusive thoughts, ERP helps break the cycle of fear, checking, reassurance seeking, and mental rituals that keeps OCD going.
What OCD Therapy With Us Looks Like
My approach is thoughtful and grounded in evidence-based treatment for OCD. We start by understanding how intrusive thoughts, anxiety, and patterns like checking, reassurance seeking, avoidance, or mental rituals are showing up for you, so your experience feels less confusing and more manageable.
From there, we use Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to help you gradually face uncertainty while learning not to respond in ways that keep the OCD cycle going.
Modalities We Use
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The most effective treatment for OCD, helping you face intrusive thoughts or uncertainty while learning not to respond with compulsions, so the thoughts become less powerful over time
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Identifies the thoughts and beliefs connected to anxiety, shame, and self-criticism.
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Helps you build practical changes that create relief in daily life.
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Creates structure and direction throughout the therapy process.
Find Relief From Intrusive Thoughts
ERP doesn't teach you to avoid intrusive thoughts.
It teaches you how to respond differently so they no longer run your life.
After OCD Therapy With Us, Clients Report:
Less fear around intrusive thoughts
Reduced checking and reassurance seekinf
More ability to let thoughts come and go
Feeling calmer day to day
Greater trust in themselves
Less shame and self-doubt
More confidence tolerating uncertainty
Feeling no longer controlled by OCD
About Cushion Mental Health
Our therapy combines practical tools with deeper emotional work so you can understand your patterns and actually begin changing them. We know how frustrating it feels to understand your struggles intellectually but still feel emotionally stuck.
Our founder, Natalie Saada, brings both clinical training and real-world experience into therapy. Before becoming a therapist, she earned a Master’s degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and worked in Human Resources, giving her deep understanding of pressure, burnout, perfectionism, and people-pleasing.
Availability: We provide therapy via telehealth throughout New York and New Jersey.
Our OCD Therapists
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Natalie Saada
When not in session, you can find me at a concert with my husband, spending time in the park with my little one, or planning my next beach trip.
3 Steps To Get Started
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Fill out the contact form and let us know what has been feeling overwhelming or stuck lately.
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We’ll schedule a free consultation to answer questions and see if EMDR therapy feels like the right fit.
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We’ll start by building safety, understanding your goals, and creating a plan for therapy together.