Kay Ferrell, MSW, LICSW

Kay enjoys building strong, supportive relationships with her clients. To nurture these relationships, she shows up to sessions with warmth, curiosity, and active engagement. Kay takes the time to get to know each client and creates individualized treatment plans that help them reach their therapeutic and personal goals.

Kay offers both talk therapy and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) therapy.

Talk therapy: Kay focuses on helping clients build insight. Together, she and her clients notice underlying patterns, themes, and coping skills; consider how those coping skills developed; and learn which ones are helping and which may be holding them back. From there, they explore new ways for clients to support themselves and move toward their goals.

 
ERP: Exposure and Response Prevention is an evidence-based approach commonly used to treat OCD and anxiety-related concerns. In ERP, clients gradually and intentionally face the thoughts, situations, or triggers that cause distress (exposure) while practicing resisting the urge to respond with compulsions or avoidance (response prevention). Over time, this helps clients learn that they can tolerate uncertainty and discomfort, and the anxiety loses its power.