Are you stuck in a cycle of intrusive thoughts and repeating actions even with medication and therapy? If OCD is controlling your life, there’s a solution approved by the FDA that directly addresses the brain circuits causing it. This goes beyond typical treatment to help you regain peace and freedom.
The OCD Struggle: When You’ve Tried Everything
Are you constantly bothered by unwanted thoughts you can’t shake? Does OCD make you repeat actions like checking or counting, taking up a lot of your time? You might have tried medication like SSRIs for years, but maybe they haven’t fully helped, and you’ve experienced side effects. Exposure and response prevention therapy might have provided some relief, but you still feel trapped by your obsessions and the anxiety they cause.
Here’s something to understand: OCD isn’t just a psychological issue or a simple chemical imbalance that medication fixes.
OCD involves overactive brain circuits. Specifically, the orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, and striatum are working too hard and connected in a way that isn’t right. These overactive networks create those intrusive thoughts, the intense anxiety, and the compulsive behaviors that are part of OCD. Medications like SSRIs don’t really address these electrical problems in how your brain makes decisions and detects errors.
What is TMS Therapy for OCD?
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive, FDA-approved brain stimulation technology specifically cleared for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Unlike medications that attempt to alter brain chemistry systemically, TMS uses precisely targeted magnetic pulses to directly modulate and calm the overactive neural circuits that generate OCD symptoms.
For individuals with OCD, deep TMS (dTMS) using specialized H7-coils targets the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC): the exact brain regions shown to be hyperactive and hyperconnected in OCD patients. By delivering calibrated magnetic pulses to these overactive areas, TMS helps normalize excessive neural firing, reduce hyperconnectivity in the OFC-striatum loop, and restore balance to the brain circuits responsible for intrusive thoughts and compulsive urges. The FDA-cleared protocol for OCD involves pairing TMS sessions with brief “provocation” exercises, intentionally triggering your OCD fears immediately before stimulation, to maximize the treatment’s effectiveness at rewiring maladaptive neural pathways.
Why Our OCD Program is Different
Typical psychiatric care for OCD usually involves SSRIs and weekly ERP therapy. But for many people, this doesn’t provide complete relief.
We believe lasting freedom from OCD requires a different strategy, a more complete one. OCD isn’t just a problem with one part of the brain. It’s influenced by a lot of things that conventional psychiatry often overlooks. Things like imbalances in neurotransmitters, inflammation, nutritional gaps, and broader health issues.
That’s why we created our Enhanced TMS Protocol. It’s a functional medicine approach designed to look at all aspects of your neurological health. Our goal is to reduce OCD symptoms and create lasting change.
Our Enhanced TMS Protocol includes four integrated components:
1. Neurotransmitter Testing (Pre & Post-Treatment)
Before beginning your FDA-approved TMS treatment for OCD, we conduct comprehensive laboratory analysis to measure your baseline levels of key neurotransmitters: including serotonin, dopamine, glutamate, GABA, and norepinephrine, that directly influence obsessive thoughts, compulsive behaviors, and anxiety levels. This eliminates guesswork and provides objective data about your unique brain chemistry. After completing treatment, we retest to document the measurable neurochemical changes occurring in your brain, providing concrete proof of your neural healing.
2. Calm IV Therapy
Throughout your TMS treatment course, you’ll receive specialized intravenous nutrient infusions designed to reduce anxiety, calm nervous system hyperactivity, and support optimal neurotransmitter production. Our Calm IV includes therapeutic doses of Magnesium, a powerful mineral that reduces neural hyperexcitability and calms the overactive circuits characteristic of OCD, along with B Vitamins that serve as essential cofactors for serotonin and GABA synthesis. These nutrients create the ideal biochemical environment for your brain to respond to TMS stimulation and rebuild healthy neural pathways.
3. Acupuncture Sessions
We integrate acupuncture throughout your treatment plan to enhance TMS outcomes, reduce systemic inflammation (which contributes to brain circuit dysfunction), balance the autonomic nervous system, and naturally increase Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF), a critical growth protein that promotes neural healing and supports the formation of new, adaptive brain circuits. Acupuncture helps shift your nervous system from the hyper-aroused state that perpetuates OCD into a more balanced, regulated state conducive to lasting recovery.
4. Health Coach Brain Health Sessions
Your comprehensive program includes personalized one-on-one sessions with our dedicated health coach, who will work with you to develop evidence-based strategies for stress management, anxiety reduction, nutrition optimization, sleep hygiene, targeted supplementation, and lifestyle modifications that support long-term OCD recovery. We address every lifestyle factor that influences your brain’s capacity for neural rebalancing, ensuring your TMS results extend far beyond the treatment room.
Your Partners in Healing in NY and CT
SeeBeyond Medicine isn’t about a one-size-fits-all treatment. You’re working with experts who really understand OCD – the way it affects you, the neurological issues behind it, not just the symptoms. Dr. Joon Lee and our clinical team offer personalized care. We take into account your specific OCD, how severe your symptoms are, and what you want to achieve in terms of wellness.
We genuinely believe healing is possible when you address the underlying brain problems with approved neurotechnology, plus support from functional medicine. Our OCD program is available at our clinics in Scarsdale, NY, and Greenwich, CT. This brings advanced, well-researched treatment to people throughout Westchester County, Fairfield County, and the New York area.
Whether you deal with contamination fears, checking compulsions, intrusive thoughts, or obsessions with symmetry, we can help you regain your life.
Is TMS for OCD Right for You?
TMS therapy for OCD may be an ideal solution if you identify with any of the following:
- You’ve been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder and experience intrusive, unwanted thoughts, images, or urges that cause intense anxiety and distress
- You perform time-consuming compulsions—such as checking, washing, counting, repeating, arranging, or mental rituals—that temporarily relieve anxiety but keep you trapped in exhausting cycles
- You’ve tried SSRIs or other medications with limited effectiveness, intolerable side effects, or incomplete symptom relief
- You’ve engaged in exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy with partial but insufficient results, or you don’t have access to specialized OCD therapists in your area
- Your OCD significantly interferes with your work, relationships, daily functioning, and quality of life, consuming hours each day
- You’re seeking an FDA-approved, non-invasive, non-drug treatment that directly targets the brain circuits responsible for OCD rather than relying solely on medication
- You understand that optimal outcomes require comprehensive, root-cause care—and you’re ready to invest in a program that combines cutting-edge neurotechnology with functional medicine support
TMS for OCD is FDA-cleared and backed by rigorous clinical research, including randomized controlled trials demonstrating significant symptom reduction in patients who haven’t found adequate relief from medications and therapy alone.
Begin Your Journey to Lasting Relief
You don’t have to keep living with intrusive thoughts and repeating behaviors. You don’t have to settle for feeling like things can’t get better with medication, or spend years in ERP therapy with limited progress. At SeeBeyond Medicine, we think healing is always possible if you tackle the real neurological reasons behind your OCD. OCD doesn’t have to be a lifelong struggle. It’s a sign that certain parts of your brain need focused treatment, rebalancing, and strong support.
Our Enhanced TMS Protocol uses technology approved by the FDA, combined with caring, functional medicine. This can help you get back the mental freedom, peace, and life you deserve. The first step? A quick chat to understand your brain, your specific OCD, and how you can find your way to freedom.
Learn more about our foundational TMS therapy program and discover how we’re helping patients throughout Westchester and Fairfield Counties see beyond their obsessions and embrace lasting relief.
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