Matthew Baker therapist of Whatif Therapy for ERP therapy for OCD anxiety and PTSD in California

Online ERP Therapy for OCD, Anxiety, and PTSD in California

Name: Whatif Therapy
Address: California

Structured, exposure-based treatments designed to help you change how you respond to fear, uncertainty, and distress.

FREE 15 MINUTE CONSULTATION

What Is Exposure-Based Therapy?

Not Your Typical Talk Therapy

Over time, the urge to avoid, escape, check, seek reassurance, or react automatically often becomes weaker. This can create more space for flexibility, clarity, and engagement in daily life. What Therapy oOnline therapy for OCD, anxiety disorders, PTSD, and trauma-related symptoms is available across California through secure telehealth sessions with a licensed therapist.

Exposure-based therapy takes a different approach.

Instead of trying to eliminate fear or gain complete certainty, evidence-based treatments like Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Prolonged Exposure (PE) help you gradually face thoughts, situations, memories, emotions, or physical sensations while reducing avoidance, compulsions, reassurance-seeking, and safety behaviors.

ERP therapy is commonly used to treat OCD and anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, social anxiety, health anxiety, and phobias. It focuses on changing how you respond to intrusive thoughts, uncertainty, fear, and discomfort rather than trying to make those experiences go away. PE therapy is commonly used to treat PTSD and trauma-related avoidance. It helps people process difficult memories and reduce patterns of avoidance so those memories have less impact over time.

Online exposure-based therapy can help people build tolerance for uncertainty, reduce compulsive and avoidant patterns, and reconnect with daily life in more meaningful ways. Both ERP and PE are active, structured, and collaborative treatments. Together, we identify the patterns maintaining anxiety, OCD, PTSD, or trauma-related symptoms and create a gradual plan to help you face what you have been avoiding while practicing new ways of responding.

Over time, the urge to avoid, escape, check, seek reassurance, or react automatically often becomes weaker. This can create more space for flexibility, clarity, and engagement in daily life.

What Does Exposure-based Treatment Look Like?

Identify patterns in OCD, anxiety, or PTSD by mapping triggers, thoughts, and behaviors that maintai

Step 1: Identify patterns

Step 2: Build a structured plan

We map how the cycle is operating in your day-to-day life. This includes triggers, thoughts, emotions, and the behaviors used to reduce distress. The goal is to clearly understand what is maintaining the problem.

Build a structured exposure plan tailored to your fears, situations, or memories using evidence-base

Step 2: Build a structured plan

We develop a gradual plan tailored to your specific fears, situations, or memories. This may include exposure to uncertainty, discomfort, or avoided experiences in a way that is manageable and intentional.

Practice new responses to anxiety, intrusive thoughts, or trauma by reducing avoidance and changing

Step 3: Practice new responses

Step 2: Build a structured plan

Step 3: Practice new responses

The focus shifts to how you respond in those moments. Instead of avoiding, checking, or trying to resolve distress, you practice allowing the experience to be there while choosing a different response. Over time, this leads to lasting change.

Your Exposure-Based Therapist in California

Licensed therapist Matthew Baker LCSW ERP Specialist smiling in a professional setting

Matthew Baker, LCSW (CA #121926)

I’m a California therapist specializing in evidence-based treatment for OCD, Social Anxiety, Health Anxiety, Panic Disorder, Specific Phobias and PTSD. I provide structured, hands-on therapy for adults, teens, and children, focused on reducing unhelpful responses and helping you move forward with more flexibility and control.

I work with adults, teens, and children to help reduce unhelpful patterns, decrease avoidance, face difficult thoughts or memories head on, and make meaningful, lasting changes.

Online ERP Therapy for OCD, Anxiety, and PTSD in California