Richard S Gallagher LMFT
Over 50% of my practice is devoted to the treatment of OCD and anxiety disorders. I also offer consultation to other clinicians on handling contamination and disgust-based OCD, as well as coaching nationwide on social and conversation skills for social anxiety disorder (www.smalltalkcoach.com).
MA MFT, Northcentral University, 2011
Specialty training in grief counseling, TEAM-CBT therapy, Gottman family therapy and others.
Teach CEU courses on contamination OCD treatment for OCD Training School.
Author of numerous self-help books including Stress-Free Small Talk (Rockridge Press, 2019), The Anxiety Journal (Rockridge Press, 2022), Stay Calm, It’s Just Your Brain (Callisto Publishing, 2024) and The Contamination OCD Workbook (2024). Also published a proposed new treatment protocol for disgust-based contamination OCD in the Spring 2023 IOCDF Newsletter.