Consultant Clinical Psychologist
BSc (Hons), DClinPsy, CPsychol, CSci, AFBPsS
Dr Liz White
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Problems I Help
If you’re looking for therapy, you may already have a sense of what’s going on, or you may just know that your mind feels busy, stuck, or exhausting to live with.
I’m Dr Liz White, a HCPC registered Consultant Clinical Psychologist. I work with adults aged 18+ experiencing OCD, anxiety and overthinking, offering therapy in Central London and online across the UK.
These difficulties can overlap. You may struggle with intrusive thoughts, compulsions, panic, reassurance-seeking, chronic worry, or a mind that won’t let go. You do not need to have the perfect label before getting in touch.
OCD Therapy
OCD involves obsessions and compulsions that can become distressing, time-consuming, and hard to break out of.
Obsessions may show up as intrusive thoughts, images, urges, or doubts. Compulsions are the things you do to feel safer, more certain, or more in control, whether that is checking, washing, repeating, reassurance-seeking, or mental reviewing.
OCD can centre around many themes, including harm, contamination, relationships, health, morality, responsibility, or sexual intrusive thoughts.
I help people understand the OCD cycle, reduce compulsions and safety behaviours,
and respond differently to intrusive thoughts and uncertainty.
Intrusive Thoughts
Intrusive thoughts can feel shocking, upsetting, or deeply out of character. Many people become frightened not just by the thought itself, but by what they think it might mean.
When thoughts become the focus of repeated checking, analysing, avoidance, or reassurance-seeking, they often become part of an OCD cycle.
Therapy can help you step out of that pattern and change your relationship with the thoughts, rather than getting pulled into trying to solve them.
Anxiety
Anxiety can show up as constant worry, racing thoughts, tension in the body, poor sleep, irritability, or feeling permanently on edge. For some people it feels general and ever-present. For others it becomes attached to specific fears, situations, or sensations.
Therapy for anxiety is not about getting rid of all anxious thoughts or feelings. It is about understanding what keeps the anxiety going and helping you respond in a steadier, more workable way.
Overthinking
Overthinking often feels like your mind is always working, but never arriving anywhere useful. You may replay conversations, second-guess decisions, mentally rehearse, analyse how you feel, or search for certainty before taking action.
It often starts as an attempt to feel safer or more prepared, but ends up keeping you stuck.
Therapy can help you recognise these patterns and loosen their grip, so you can trust yourself more and move forward with more freedom.
Low mood & depression
Living with OCD, anxiety, or relentless overthinking can be exhausting. Over time, that can take a real toll on mood.
You may feel flat, drained, stuck, hopeless, disconnected, or as though life has become smaller and harder to engage with. Sometimes low mood grows alongside anxiety. Sometimes it develops after a long period of mental struggle, self-criticism, avoidance, or feeling worn down by intrusive thoughts and doubt.
Therapy can help you understand what is keeping the low mood going, whether that is withdrawal, rumination, harsh self judgement, anxiety-driven avoidance, or feeling trapped in unhelpful patterns. From there, we can work on helping you reconnect with yourself, your values, and the parts of life that have started to shrink.
Panic & Physical Anxiety
Sometimes anxiety is felt most strongly in the body. You may experience panic attacks, a racing heart, dizziness, shaking, breathlessness, chest tightness, or a sense that something is terribly wrong.
Panic can become frightening in its own right, especially if you start fearing the sensations themselves.
Therapy can help you understand the panic cycle and reduce the fear that builds around anxiety sensations.
Reassurance-Seeking,
Doubt & Mental Checking
For many people, the problem is not only the thought or feeling itself, but the constant need to check. That may mean asking for reassurance, going over things in your mind, checking how you feel, reviewing memories, researching, or trying to reach certainty before you can relax.
These patterns are understandable, but they usually strengthen doubt rather than reduce it. This is especially common in OCD, health anxiety, relationship anxiety, and chronic overthinking.
Relationship Anxiety & ROCD
Sometimes anxiety and obsessive doubt become focused on relationships. You may find yourself questioning your feelings, checking attraction, comparing your relationship, or wondering whether the presence of doubt means something important.
Relationships can be genuinely complex, but when repeated checking and a need for certainty take over, the distress can become consuming.
Therapy can help you recognise when obsessive doubt is driving the problem.
Health Anxiety
Health anxiety can make it hard to feel settled in your body. You may find yourself noticing sensations quickly, checking for signs of illness, Googling symptoms, or struggling to feel reassured for long even after medical advice.
The fear is usually not helped by more checking. In fact, those habits often keep the anxiety alive.
Therapy can help you understand that cycle and reduce the patterns that keep pulling you back in.
How I Work
As a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, I draw on evidence-based approaches including CBT, ACT and Compassion Focused Therapy, depending on the person and the problem.
My approach is thoughtful, collaborative, and grounded in formulation. That means I want to understand not just the symptoms, but the patterns keeping them going.
FAQs
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Do you only work with OCD, anxiety and overthinking? Yes. These are my core areas of specialism. I also work with trauma where it is clearly connected to those difficulties.
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Do I need a diagnosis before contacting you? No. You do not need a formal diagnosis to get in touch.
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Do you work with adults only? Yes. I work with adults aged 18+.
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Do you offer online therapy? Yes. I offer therapy in Central London and online across the UK.
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What if I’m not sure whether this is OCD or anxiety? That’s very common. There is often overlap, and you do not need to work that out on your own before contacting me.
Get In Touch
If you’d like to explore working together, send an enquiry below. A brief message is enough.
or text me on 07716 558 686.