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You can view current availability and book directly through our online booking system. You can choose your psychologist, consultation type and appointment time. If you are unsure which psychologist or consultation type to choose, you are welcome to contact the clinic before booking.

Waiting times vary between the psychologists and may change during holiday periods. You can see current availability directly in our online booking system. If you cannot find a suitable appointment, you are welcome to contact the clinic.

Yes. You can request a free 10–12-minute introductory call. It can take place in person at the clinic or by video. You can ask practical questions, briefly introduce your enquiry and clarify whether the clinic’s services appear to fit it. The call is individual and is available to people aged 18 or over. Free introductory calls are not offered for parent guidance. The call is not a clinical assessment or a treatment consultation.

No. You do not need an introductory call before booking a consultation. The call can be useful if you are unsure whether the clinic is the right place for you or have a practical question before starting. Any assessment and treatment take place during the consultations themselves.

You do not need to be certain that it is OCD before contacting the clinic. You can start with a free introductory call if you would like to explore whether booking a consultation makes sense. A proper assessment of whether it is OCD or something else requires one or more consultations with the psychologist.

Both psychologists offer specialised OCD treatment. Jesper Krogholt is based at the Copenhagen clinic and offers online consultations in Danish for adults and young people aged 15 and over, as well as supervision. Ditte Mortensen is based at the Aarhus clinic and offers online consultations in Danish and English for adults and young people aged 15 and over. She also offers guidance for parents and families. If you are still unsure, you are welcome to contact the clinic.

In-person consultations with Jesper Krogholt take place at the clinic in Copenhagen, while in-person consultations with Ditte Mortensen take place at the clinic in Aarhus. Both also offer online treatment.

Yes. We offer full courses of treatment online, supported by our online course modules. This makes specialised OCD treatment accessible even if you live far from the clinic. Some people feel more at ease at home, and specific situations in the home can be incorporated directly into treatment.

Online consultations take place over an encrypted video connection. The psychologist will be in a private, undisturbed setting, and you should also choose a private place where others cannot see or hear you. You will receive practical information about the connection before the consultation.

Yes. Both Jesper and Ditte offer individual consultations for young people aged 15 and over. If your child is younger, you can contact the clinic to clarify whether parent or family guidance may be relevant.

Yes. Ditte Mortensen offers guidance for parents and families with a child under the age of 15. The family and psychologist work together to understand the child’s OCD, manage specific situations in everyday life and support the child without inadvertently accommodating the OCD. The guidance is tailored to the child and the family’s circumstances.

Yes. Parents, partners and other close relatives of adults and young people aged 15 and over can have consultations of their own or take part in a structured support programme. We focus on understanding OCD, managing difficult situations and offering support without inadvertently accommodating the OCD.

Yes. You are welcome to bring a parent, friend, partner, spouse or another support person to a consultation. This can help you feel more at ease, particularly at the beginning of treatment. Together with you, the psychologist will continue to assess when their involvement is most helpful and when it is best for you to attend the consultation on your own.

Yes. Ditte Mortensen offers consultations in both Danish and English. Consultations with Jesper Krogholt are held in Danish.

The fee depends on the psychologist, consultation type and time you choose. You can see the current fees, the duration of the consultations and any surcharges in our fee overview.

Yes, if you are a member and meet the current conditions set by Sygeforsikringen “danmark”. Once you have informed the clinic of your membership, we register the treatment electronically after payment. Sygeforsikringen “danmark” determines the amount of your subsidy.

Private, employer-funded or pension-based health insurance may cover all or part of your treatment. Before starting, ask the insurance provider to confirm in writing what is covered, how many consultations are included, whether you need to make a contribution and whether you are free to choose your psychologist.

No. You do not need a referral from a doctor to start treatment at OCD Klinikken. The clinic is not part of Denmark’s publicly subsidised psychologist scheme, so a referral does not provide public funding for consultations with us. You may instead be eligible for a subsidy from Sygeforsikringen “danmark” or funding through health insurance or your employer.

You can cancel by emailing your psychologist directly or calling the clinic administration. The current deadlines and any charges for late cancellation are listed in the “Cancellations and payment” section of the fees page.

Payment takes place after each consultation. You can find the current payment method and deadline in the “Cancellations and payment” section of the fees page.

We take an exploratory approach in therapy, so you need to be curious about your own difficulties and open to an analytical way of working.

We experiment to find out what works for you and learn along the way how your particular OCD works.

You need to want change and be willing to make an effort both during consultations and, especially, between them.

Three common therapeutic approaches are used in OCD treatment:

Cognitive therapy

A classic tool in cognitive therapy is cognitive restructuring, often using a five-column thought record. The person is encouraged to develop alternative ways of responding to the claims made by OCD. However, many people with OCD already spend considerable time debating these claims. Without realising it, the therapist may therefore encourage an OCD-driven process or provide reassurance in response to OCD’s claims, both of which can become part of the OCD pattern.

The client and therapist can therefore become caught up in the OCD together, going round in the same circles. This is never the therapist’s intention; if it happens, it reflects an insufficient understanding of OCD.

Cognitive behavioural therapy

This approach works directly with gradual exposure, which is an excellent tool when used correctly. However, if the therapist does not understand the mental aspects of OCD, the exposure may be unsuccessful or remain superficial, leaving the person vulnerable to OCD. With complex OCD, designing the right approach requires considerable experience.

Metacognitive therapy

In metacognitive therapy, the person practises allowing thoughts to remain thoughts and feelings to remain feelings. This avoids the cognitive-therapy trap of debating OCD’s claims, but the person can still be left with the wider narrative created by those claims. Metacognitive therapy may struggle to address the intense pressure that OCD thoughts can create. It also lacks the gradual exposure that is an indispensable tool when used correctly.

Less complex OCD

For less complex anxiety and OCD, all three approaches can produce reasonably good results without the therapist needing extensive specialist experience, provided the client has strong personal resources.

More complex OCD

Here, an OCD specialist with the necessary range of methods is needed. Far too many people see a psychologist who lacks the required expertise and come to believe either that they cannot be helped or that working with OCD must be unnecessarily anxiety-provoking.

We use cognitive behavioural therapy, cognitive therapy, metacognitive therapy and approaches developed from these traditions. Together, they offer a broad range of tools designed to give clients insight and practical ways to help themselves.

A substantial body of research has shown cognitive therapy to be the most effective form of treatment for OCD, and the Danish Health Authority recommends it as a first-line treatment for a wide range of difficulties.

However, using cognitive therapy correctly for OCD requires considerable experience, as many traditional tools may be inappropriate – particularly when mental compulsions predominate, as in Pure O. The same applies to metacognitive therapy, where it is easy to overlook the consequences of the emotional imprint and distressing narrative created by OCD.

After many years devoted exclusively to OCD treatment, head psychologist Jesper Krogholt has developed additional methods and techniques designed to achieve results not readily found elsewhere. These methods were developed in collaboration with clients with OCD and have benefited many people. All psychologists at OCD Klinikken are trained in the methods and receive ongoing guidance and supervision from Jesper Krogholt.

Yes, we are familiar with all types of OCD. The American treatment tradition, in particular, has a strong tendency to group OCD into different types. The possible variations are effectively endless, and no two clients are alike.

Important aspects of OCD can easily be overlooked if it is treated as fundamentally different from one grouping to the next. We are particularly interested in the shared patterns that recur across symptom groupings and thought content. These provide an important key to understanding OCD.

That said, some symptom groupings are, of course, useful to consider, and we do take them into account.

We have extensive experience with comorbidity – when OCD occurs alongside other mental health or neurodevelopmental difficulties such as ADHD, autism, depression or anxiety. The psychologist will always make an individual assessment, together with you, of how the different difficulties should be understood, prioritised and addressed in treatment.

Many of our clients describe their experience during a course of treatment as moving from “version 1.0” to “version 2.0”. Although OCD has been difficult and burdensome, the work can lead to personal development and a new way of meeting the world.

We aim not only to reduce symptoms, but also to build resilience in relation to OCD.

Together, we create version 2.0.

OCD rarely exists in isolation, and many psychological difficulties are linked to underlying thinking patterns that place an unnecessary burden on the individual. We help you untangle these patterns, giving you greater freedom to use your energy and resources on what matters to you.

Do you find yourself analysing everything and everyone?

Are you afraid of making mistakes?

Does your thinking lower your mood or lead you to avoid certain situations?

We draw on a broad range of therapeutic tools. Together, we explore how the different parts are connected and identify approaches that suit you and can create meaningful change and new possibilities.

It is not unusual to feel anxious about starting therapy.

Talking to a psychologist about your OCD can feel daunting in many different ways. For example:

• Talking about distressing thoughts that you would rather not think about can in itself be anxiety-provoking
• The fear that OCD’s claims that you are a bad person will be confirmed
• The fear of being told that you do not have OCD
• The fear of being told that you do have OCD
• Social anxiety

Sometimes several or all of these fears are present at once, shifting around and creating pressure from every angle. This is not at all unusual, and it is something we address along the way. Helping you work through this is central to what we do, and it is something we are good at.

Exposure should be planned carefully and kept at a level of discomfort that feels manageable and can readily be stepped back from. We call this “skipping stones” over OCD. On an OCD scale from 0 to 10, where 10 represents the greatest discomfort, we do not expose above 3–4. This is the “sweet spot”, where we can work effectively with the OCD. Over time, situations that initially sit higher on the scale can move down towards this level.

Very few people can overcome OCD through massed exposure. OCD is too complex for this approach to suit most people, and we can almost guarantee that a therapist would not be able to do it either if they were in your position.

That is not how we work. Treatment involves a great deal of learning, and new experiences create the change needed to become free from OCD gradually.

It varies greatly whether our clients take medication for OCD and how much it helps them. If someone experiences severe anxiety, medication may help reduce it enough to make therapeutic work with OCD more manageable.

People often have strong views about medication. We can help you with your OCD whether or not you take it.

Yes, you can.

When you search for information about OCD online, many sources describe it as chronic. We believe this is fundamentally wrong. Effective treatment requires a therapist who understands OCD and has the necessary tools and techniques to treat it.

This is very individual. A typical course is around 8–12 consultations. Some people need only 2–3 consultations, while others need considerably more.

It depends on how severely you are affected, how complex the OCD and any other difficulties are, and how much energy and capacity you have for working with OCD.

We recommend starting with four consultations at weekly intervals to give us a good foundation. Depending on your needs, we may then continue weekly before gradually increasing the time between consultations, allowing you time to work on the different aspects of OCD.