Trauma and OCD Therapist in Washington
Overthinking therapist in Washington, helping you learn to quiet your mind.
Are you tired and wishing you could get your mind to stop overthinking and ruminating?
High achievers carry a quiet secret that make you feel misunderstood. The constant thinking feels like it has a purpose sometimes but it also exhausts you. You just want peace and quiet.
I specialize in overthinking therapy. I help you identify the root of the overthinking and use ERP for OCD and EMDR for trauma therapy approaches to help you quiet your mind. As an anxiety, trauma, or OCD therapist in Washington, I get how debilitating overthinking feels.
As a Trauma & OCD Therapist in Washington, I help you learn how to control your overthinking.
Is your mind stuck on repeat, replaying and re-replaying things that should be settled by now?
You are a high achiever and it seems like your mind works differently than others. Sometimes that feels like a superpower. Other times you spend hours of circling the same thoughts, convinced that if you just think it through one more time, you’ll finally land somewhere solid. You don’t.
I’m Stephanie Winfrey, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in rumination and overthinking. I’m a Trauma & OCD therapist in Washington, also specializing in ROCD, anxiety, and depression, providing virtual therapy to adults across Washington state, including Vancouver and the surrounding area.
Here is how I can help
Overthinking (also called worrying, overanalyzing) — getting stuck on a thought, situation, or hypothetical future, unable to look past the worst-case version of it. The spiral feels like it has its own momentum once it starts. Often connected to trauma or OCD.
Relationship doubt — a running undercurrent of questioning: your partner, the relationship, yourself in it — with no actual evidence anything is wrong. Usually shows up alongside overthinking, and can point to relationship OCD (ROCD) or trauma.
Rumination — getting pulled backward instead of forward: re-running conversations, second-guessing what you said or did, searching for the moment you went wrong. Can be tied to depression, trauma, or OCD.
Sifting the sands (also called mental checking) — mentally re-scanning your memory or past experien
"I have lived with OCD and know how lonely and isolating it feels." - Stephanie
For years, I practiced with only treating PTSD and Complex PTSD, trauma. I still treat and love working with those recovering from trauma.
Along the way, I realized that OCD is often a missed or untreated diagnosis. This matters because OCD can perpetuate and worsen with traditional, therapeutic techniques.
Most of the people I work with don’t know they have OCD. They know they experience anxiety, shame, guilt, and doubt, but never thought of it as a part of the OCD loop.
The way we see OCD on TV isn’t how I see it in most of my patients lives. You may not know rumination is a part of OCD, too. Or that replaying conversations over and over, and playing out fake arguments in your mind can also be a part of OCD.
As a Trauma & OCD therapist in Washington also trained in trauma treatment, I will help you find the right treatment to improve your life.
You're in the right spot if...
- You replay conversations for days looking for resolution that never comes
- You get stuck in rumination cycles, even when you don’t care
- You find yourself overthinking a lot
- You look fine to everyone around you but feel like a mess on the inside
- You find yourself snapping at the people you love and don’t fully understand why
- You’ve tried other forms of therapy that helped some but didn’t fix the root of the problem
- You’ve never heard of ROCD or OCD but something about this page feels a little too familiar
- You are looking for a Trauma & OCD Therapist in Washington
1:1 Individual Therapy
45 – 55 minute sessions
In our sessions, I start by assessing what’s bringing you into therapy and help you identify your goals. Basically: what’s got you here, and what do you want to happen by being here? I use what you share to develop treatment goals that are tailored to you.
Then we move into the nitty gritty. This is where I draw on evidence-based treatments to help you calm racing thoughts, break out of overthinking, rumination, and other patterns that aren’t serving you.
Throughout treatment, I take an educational approach…because if you’re anything like me, you want to understand why it’s happening in the first place.
Let’s get nerdier for a bit and talk about modalities. I am trained in the gold standard for OCD treatment, ERP. And utilize Inference-based CBT (I-CBT) as needed. For trauma treatment, including complex trauma (C-PTSD) and PTSD, I draw from CBT based therapies such as DBT and CPT. When needed, I use EMDR. All treatment approaches are based on you.
That’s all it takes to start feeling like yourself again.
Trauma & OCD Therapist in Washington state — OCD & Trauma Therapy in Washington
Not sure if this is right for you?
The best way to know is to schedule a free consultation. In that call, you can ask me questions to better understand my therapeutic process and explore what working together will look like.
Maybe you don’t have OCD or trauma, but you being here reading tells me something is striking a chord with you. Feel free to reach out!