OCD Specialists. Real People. Clear Direction.
River City OCD Clinic exists for a pretty simple reason:
People with OCD and related concerns deserve treatment from clinicians who understand what they're looking at, and know what to do next.
We specialize in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety, perfectionism, trauma-related concerns, body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs), hoarding, and related conditions.
Our work is grounded in evidence-based treatment, particularly Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
But our mission is bigger than helping people become better at therapy.
We want to help people build lives led more by their values and less by fear, avoidance, compulsions, and the endless demand to finally feel certain.
Because ultimately, treatment should help you get back to living.
Why River City OCD Clinic Exists
Before there was River City OCD Clinic, we were already doing this work.
Our co-founders, Dr. Street Russell, Psy.D. and Sara Sutphin, M.Ed., LPP, spent nearly a decade working together in specialty settings treating OCD, anxiety, and related conditions.
Over those years, one thing became increasingly clear: OCD is remarkably easy to misunderstand.
It can look like contamination fears and hand-washing, but it can also look like endless moral questioning, relationship doubts, disturbing intrusive thoughts, mental review, reassurance seeking, perfectionism, avoidance, checking feelings, reconstructing memories, or spending three hours trying to determine what a thought “really means.”
People can spend years in treatment without anyone recognizing the underlying pattern.
We wanted to build a clinic where clients didn't have to spend the first six appointments teaching their therapist what OCD was.
And we didn't want OCD treatment to be one specialty buried somewhere in a long list of things we happened to treat.
We wanted it to be the entree, not a side dish.
That's River City OCD Clinic.
Why the Name Changed
River City OCD Clinic operates as part of Reclaim Wellness Group, PLLC.
Reclaim Wellness Group originally provided a broader range of behavioral health services, including psychotherapy, medication management, and ketamine-assisted treatment.
Over time, however, our direction became increasingly clear.
In 2025, we made the decision to narrow our clinical focus and discontinue medication management and ketamine services.
Rather than trying to be everything to everyone, we chose to invest more deeply in what our clinicians knew best:
Specialized psychotherapy, assessment, education, and consultation for OCD and related concerns.
River City OCD Clinic grew from that decision.
The legal entity may still say Reclaim Wellness Group, but River City OCD Clinic tells people much more clearly who we are and why we're here.
What We Believe About OCD Treatment
Treatment methods matter. So does the philosophy behind them...
A few ideas shape the way we approach treatment at River City.
Specialization Matters
OCD is not defined by one particular type of thought.
Someone can obsess about contamination, morality, relationships, religion, harm, sexuality, health, memories, bodily sensations, mistakes, responsibility, or something that doesn't fit neatly into any OCD subtype at all.
The content can change dramatically, but the underlying process can remain remarkably familiar.
Specialized treatment means understanding not only what someone is afraid of, but what happens next:
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What do they check?
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What do they avoid?
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What do they analyze?
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Where do they seek reassurance?
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What are they trying to make certain?
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What mental rituals are happening that nobody else can see?
Recognizing that pattern matters.
Treat the Cycle, Not Just the Content
OCD is very good at convincing people that this particular question needs to be solved...
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"What if I contaminated someone?"
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"What if I don't really love my partner?"
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"What if that intrusive thought says something terrible about me?"
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"What if I made the wrong decision?"
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"What if I sinned?"
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"What if that memory actually happened differently?"
Treatment can easily become another place where those questions get investigated.
Our goal isn't to spend therapy endlessly putting every obsession on trial. Instead, we help clients understand the larger pattern and develop greater flexibility in how they respond when uncertainty, anxiety, guilt, disgust, intrusive thoughts, or “not-right” feelings show up.
Sometimes the question remains unanswered...
And life gets to continue anyway.
Evidence-Based Doesn't Mean Robotic
ERP is a first-line psychological treatment for OCD and forms an important foundation of the work we do.
We also integrate principles from ACT to help clients develop greater psychological flexibility, the ability to experience difficult thoughts and feelings without automatically allowing those experiences to dictate what happens next.
But evidence-based treatment still happens between actual human beings.
We believe therapy can be scientifically grounded and warm, structured and flexible, challenging and compassionate. We believe it can be serious about suffering without requiring every moment of therapy to feel serious.
Sometimes humor belongs in the room too.
We're therapists. We haven't taken vows of solemnity.
Treatment Should Give You More Life, Not More Therapy
It's possible to become very good at being a patient. You can...
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Learn the terminology
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Complete worksheets beautifully
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Understand every part of the OCD cycle
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Know your triggers
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Know your values
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Know what ERP stands for
You might eventually be able to teach a college-level course on OCD treatment.
But the point of treatment isn't to become an expert at treatment. It's to have more freedom to participate in your life...
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Being more present with your children
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Returning to school
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Traveling
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Dating
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Going to church
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Making decisions without a three-hour investigation
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Touching something and moving on
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Doing work you care about
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Creating something
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Spending time with people you love
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Eating dinner while your brain is conducting a completely unnecessary five-alarm investigation in the background
Treatment is valuable because of what it helps make possible outside the therapy room.
Specialists, Not Robots
Specialization is important to us.
So is being human.
Our clinicians bring different personalities, backgrounds, interests, strengths, and senses of humor to their work.
We're not trying to manufacture identical therapists who recite the same treatment script. What we share is a commitment to thoughtful, evidence-based care, continued learning, collaboration, curiosity, compassion, and helping clients build greater freedom in their lives.
Good therapy requires clinical skill. It also requires a relationship in which people can show up as actual people.
You don't have to perform therapy perfectly here.
You don't need the right words. You don't need to arrive already understanding your symptoms. And you certainly don't need to impress us with how well you're doing.
That's sort of why we're here...
More Than Individual Therapy
Individual psychotherapy is an important part of what we do, but specialized OCD care doesn't always fit neatly into one hour per week.
River City OCD Clinic has continued developing different ways for clients, families, and professionals to access support.
We provide specialized individual psychotherapy for children, adolescents, and adults experiencing OCD, anxiety, perfectionism, trauma-related concerns, and related conditions.
We provide psychological assessment services, including ADHD and learning evaluations for children, adolescents, and adults when appropriate.
For people who need more support than traditional weekly therapy can provide, our Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) offers concentrated treatment over a shorter period of time.
We provide consultation for professionals seeking support with OCD assessment, case conceptualization, ERP, ACT, mental compulsions, reassurance seeking, family accommodation, and complex presentations.
We recognize the need for helping more clinicians effectively treat OCD and related disorders.
Our groups and workshops create opportunities to practice skills, maintain recovery, learn alongside others, and receive support outside individual treatment.
Offerings may include OCD and anxiety skills groups, relapse-prevention groups, hoarding treatment, workshops, and other specialty programming.
Building Better Access to Specialized OCD Care
One of the reasons River City OCD Clinic exists is that finding appropriate OCD treatment can still be surprisingly difficult.
People may go years before OCD is correctly recognized. Others receive the diagnosis but struggle to find a clinician with specialized training. And some people know exactly what treatment they need but can't find it close to home.
We can't solve that problem by adding therapy appointments forever.
So part of our mission extends beyond individual treatment.
We want to contribute to better OCD care through:
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Community and professional education
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Training and consultation for clinicians
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Groups and workshops
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Educational resources for clients and families
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Outreach to schools, medical providers, and other professionals
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Developing additional clinicians with specialized OCD expertise
Every clinician who becomes better at recognizing OCD potentially changes what happens for dozens—or hundreds—of people who haven't found the right treatment yet.
That's worth investing in.
OCD & Anxiety Specialists in Louisville, Kentucky
River City OCD Clinic is based in Louisville, Kentucky, where we provide specialized treatment for OCD, anxiety, perfectionism, trauma-related concerns, BFRBs, hoarding, and related conditions.
Our clinicians use evidence-based approaches selected for the problem being treated, including Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and Habit Reversal Training (HRT).
Services include individual psychotherapy, group therapy and workshops, intensive outpatient treatment, psychological assessment, and professional consultation.
Eligible clients may also receive telehealth services when clinically appropriate and permitted by applicable licensure requirements.
But whatever form treatment takes, the larger goal remains the same: Helping people build greater freedom to participate in lives that matter to them.
