Jennifer R. Wood PhD

In her private practice, Dr. Wood treats clients with a wide range of issues, but her major area of expertise is anxiety disorders and OCD. Approximately 80 percent of her clientele struggles with anxiety/OCD. During her 20+ years of doing therapy, she has helped hundreds of clients with OCD/anxiety. Although she currently sees just adults in her practice, she used to work with children/adolescents and can provide support to parents whose kids struggle with OCD/anxiety (and behavioral issues in general).

Dr. Wood treats:

-anxiety/panic
-depression
-adjustment issues
-relationship/marital problems and divorce
-career/academic stress
-women’s issues
-body image issues
-trauma
-postpartum and fertility issues
-parenting stressors

Dr. Wood recognizes that all humans are complex and that most individuals tend to be coping with multiple struggles at once. She looks at the individual as a whole and helps assess which behaviors are/are not working for them. She is able to help clients prioritize which problems are most pressing and teaches strategies (e.g., mindfulness) that are simultaneously applicable to OCD and the co-occurring concerns. The strategies of ACT are particularly helpful for tackling multiple concerns at once.

For over 20 years in her private practice, Dr. Wood has worked with individuals with OCD. In her Ph.D. program at University of Washington, she was trained specifically in E/RP and knows those strategies well. She received additional training in OCD treatment during her internship and post-doctoral fellowship at Children’s Hospital in Seattle. In more recent years, she has received training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and she integrates ACT strategies with E/RP. Dr. Wood also has attended workshops and conferences, reads extensively on OCD, consults with colleagues, and is up to date on current best practices for OCD.

Dr. Wood has practiced therapy in regions that are very diverse, and her clientele has included people from a wide range of socioeconomic, ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds. Her practice is LGBTQIA+ friendly and she herself has LGBTQIA+ family members, which deepens her understanding of these individuals’ experiences. She is down-to-earth, accepting, nonjudgmental, and respectful. Dr. Wood is warm and uses humor when appropriate, and her sessions are very interactive. Clients leave their therapy sessions with hands-on skills that can be used during life’s most challenging moments. She has the skills to help clients end their struggle with OCD.

In her therapy practice, Dr. Wood has always placed great value on seeing clients from diverse backgrounds. During her Ph.D. program she received extensive training in multicultural competence. Dr. Wood works with her clients in an accepting manner that is sensitive to their specific backgrounds, culture, and belief systems. Over many years of practice she has prioritized having a diverse clientele, and the treatment modalities she uses emphasize interacting with clients in a nonjudgmental, collaborative manner that respects their identity and way of living.