specializing in OCD, Anxiety & Neurodivergent Care

WELCOME TO MY PRACTICE.

If you've been searching for real answers about your anxiety, your OCD, or the way your brain works differently than most — you're in the right place. Together, we'll get a clear picture of what's actually going on for you, and build a plan that fits your specific situation, not a generic one. I've spent the last decade helping people do exactly this, and I'd love to help you do it too.

Background

I'm a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with a private practice in Los Angeles. My work centers on OCD and the OC spectrum, anxiety disorders, and neurodivergent-affirming care for ADHD, high-masking autism, AuDHD, and twice-exceptional (2e) clients.

These areas overlap more than people expect. Anxiety often shows up alongside OCD. Executive functioning struggles show up across ADHD, autism, and OCD alike. And many of the adults I see spent years being told they were "just anxious" before anyone recognized the autism or ADHD underneath it — especially women and high-masking clients, who are so often misdiagnosed or missed entirely. Untangling which pattern is driving what will make the difference between treatment that actually fits — instead of another round of coping strategies aimed at the wrong target.

OCD is where I started, and it's still personal. OCD, generalized anxiety, autism, and ADHD all run in my own family. I've seen what these look like left unsupported, and I've seen what's possible with the right treatment and support — a life designed by you, with purpose and intention. I want to help you show up in the world the way you want to, without the barriers and distractions.

I've also worked with parents since 2005, providing Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) to help families navigate the behavioral challenges that often come with impulsivity and ADHD. That work, alongside my own family's experience, shaped how early "differently wired" was part of my thinking about anxiety and OCD — long before "neurodivergent-affirming care" was a common phrase in this field.

Experience

I opened my private practice in 2008. Some years in, I also took on the role of Clinical Director at an anxiety treatment institute in Los Angeles that specialized in treatment-resistant OCD and anxiety cases — the kind of cases that hadn't responded to treatment elsewhere — while continuing to see my own clients. Individuals traveled from around the world to work with our team. We partnered with UCLA's Semel Institute and Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital to hospitalize individuals in acute crisis, then transitioned them into intensive outpatient care once stabilized. It's a level of care I still draw on today, whether someone needs weekly sessions or a more intensive approach.

More recently, my focus has grown to include neurodivergent adults and teens more broadly — not just where anxiety or OCD intersects with ADHD and autism, but executive functioning, sensory processing, high-masking presentations, and twice-exceptionality in their own right. I take a strengths-based, neurodivergent-affirming approach: helping you understand how your brain actually works, rather than pushing you toward someone else's idea of "normal."

I believe that with the right information, people make good choices for themselves. So I teach you to become your own therapist over time, building the skills to manage your symptoms with confidence. Anxiety is a normal, human experience, and OCD isn't something to be cured — it's something to be well-managed. My goal is to help you get there: not a life without anxiety or OCD, but one where they're no longer running the show.

Standing with you, Dr. Sarah Stevens

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This is the first time therapy actually worked for me.

/  C. A., 26, female  /