Sofia Ocegueda, PhD

I have worked with several children, adolescents, and young adults with OCD. My other specialties include anxiety disorders (i.e. social anxiety, generalized anxiety, specific phobias), eating disorders (i.e. anorexia nervosa, ARFID, OSFED) and other OC Spectrum disorders (trichotillomania, skin picking, body repetitive behaviors). In conjunction with ACT tenants and a cognitive-behavioral framework, I provide exposure-based treatment.

I have expertise in treating co-occurring OCD and eating disorders. I am aware of how each condition can feed off of each other, creating a vicious cycle. I will walk with you to get control back over your life — you deserve to feel free. Safety and wellbeing are a priority to set you up for success for cognitive and exposure-based interventions. Thus, we will work on a plan together to ensure desired outcomes after treatment, long-term.
Additionally, I have expansive training in differentiating between anxiety and OCD. Each diagnosis has different evidence-based treatments, so we will discuss how we can target both with an individualized treatment plan.

I trained in the doctoral combine school-child clinical psychology program at the University of Texas at Austin from 2019-2025, where I was supervised by cognitive-behavioral and ACT therapists treating OCD and anxiety as part of my practicum. I became more familiar with assessing for OCD diagnoses as a psychology intern and postdoctoral fellow at Dell Children’s Medical Center from 2024-2026 on my outpatient eating disorder and inpatient consultation/liaison rotations. Given the high rate of co-occurring OCD and eating disorders, I became familiar with how to treat both disorders in a safe, effective manner.

Everyone is welcome in this brave space to be themselves, authentically. As a clinician in Texas, I understand that there are many oppressive systems that may try to strip you from being your full self. In this space, you are free to be fully who you are and have full autonomy. I’m a proud Mexican-American and the first in my family to earn a doctorate, so I intimately know what it feels like to carry the weight of everyone’s sacrifices, to excel and excel and still feel like it’s never quite enough, to be the one who made it and therefore can’t ever fall apart. If you’re the girl who has been achieving her whole life and still feels the quiet pressure to make it all worth it, I get it.
Along with personal experience, I have pursued clinical experiences that have centered marginalized communities, such as a public pediatric hospital, a juvenile detention center, public schools, and a community mental health center. Throughout all my experiences, I have advocated to also train as a Spanish-speaking clinician to be able to expand access to mental health services in Spanish.