Brandon Bumbalough, PhD, HSPP
Licensed Psychologist | Psychological Assessment & OCD Specialist
Brandon Bumbalough, PhD, HSPP—affectionately known to many of his clients as Dr. B.—is a licensed psychologist at River City OCD Clinic. He is licensed in both Kentucky and Indiana and works with children, adolescents, and adults.
Dr. B.'s clinical background includes specialized work with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety, ADHD, psychological assessment, and substance use recovery. He uses evidence-based approaches including Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
His style is structured, practical, and direct, while leaving plenty of room for humor.
Because sometimes therapy involves doing something uncomfortable on purpose. There's no rule saying everyone also has to look miserable while doing it.
Dr. B. currently maintains a limited psychotherapy caseload while continuing to provide ADHD & psychological assessment through River City OCD Clinic.
Dr. Brandon Bumbalough provides comprehensive psychological assessment for ADHD and related diagnostic concerns, along with limited psychotherapy services for OCD, anxiety, and related conditions.
Specialties & Areas of Focus
OCD Treatment
Dr. B. has specialized training and experience treating children, adolescents, and adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
He works with many OCD themes and presentations, including contamination fears, harm-related obsessions, moral scrupulosity, compulsive checking, reassurance seeking, washing rituals, avoidance, family accommodation, and mental compulsions.
Using Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Dr. B. helps clients approach situations, thoughts, sensations, and uncertainties that OCD has taught them to fear while reducing the compulsive behaviors used to obtain relief or certainty.
The goal isn't to become certain that everything will be okay. It's learning that you can live meaningfully without requiring that guarantee first.
Anxiety, Uncertainty & Avoidance
Anxiety often offers what sounds like a reasonable deal:
Avoid this now, and you'll feel better.
Unfortunately, short-term relief can teach the brain that avoidance was necessary, which makes the same situation even harder the next time.
Dr. B. helps clients recognize patterns of anxiety, avoidance, and attempts to control internal experiences while developing greater willingness to experience discomfort in the service of meaningful action.
His work draws heavily from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), emphasizing psychological flexibility, uncertainty acceptance, and behavior guided by what matters rather than by the immediate demand to feel safe.
Comprehensive ADHD Assessment Services
One of Dr. B.'s primary roles at River City OCD Clinic is providing comprehensive psychological assessment for ADHD and related diagnostic concerns for individuals ages 10 and older.
Sometimes the question seems straightforward: Is this ADHD?
But difficulties with attention, organization, memory, motivation, or task completion don't always have a single obvious explanation. Anxiety, OCD, learning differences, and other psychological or developmental factors can sometimes produce overlapping difficulties.
A comprehensive evaluation is designed to look beyond a brief symptom checklist.
Dr. B.'s assessment process incorporates clinical interviews, standardized psychological testing, relevant history, and other information as appropriate to develop a clearer understanding of an individual's strengths, difficulties, and diagnostic picture.
Following the evaluation, clients receive a detailed written report explaining the findings and providing practical recommendations. Depending on the results, those recommendations may help guide treatment and medication discussions with a prescribing provider.
What Therapy With Dr. B. Is Like
Structured, Practical & Focused on What Works
Dr. B. describes his approach this way:
"My approach to therapy is structured, practical, and focused on what works. I realize OCD treatment can be hard for most individuals, so I do my best to bring humor into sessions while we're learning how to be present with the experience. I enjoy teaching clients of all ages the value of uncertainty acceptance and committed action toward what's truly meaningful for them in life."
That combination—structure without rigidity, challenge without unnecessary seriousness—is central to how Dr. B. approaches treatment.
Therapy isn't intended to become another place to endlessly analyze whether you're doing everything correctly.
The work is about learning, practicing, noticing what happens, and gradually becoming more capable of choosing behavior even when anxiety isn't cooperating.
Uncertainty Acceptance & Committed Action
OCD and anxiety frequently insist that action should come after certainty.
Figure it out first.
Make sure you're safe.
Wait until you feel ready.
Then move forward.
Dr. B.'s approach reverses that sequence.
Using principles from ERP and ACT, clients practice allowing uncertainty and discomfort to exist while taking actions connected to what actually matters to them.
The goal isn't perfect confidence.
It's greater freedom to act without needing confidence first.
Dr. B. & Sara Wallace Share Their Approach to Treating OCD & Anxiety on Great Day Live
Psychological Assessment: Getting Clearer Answers
Dr. B. has extensive training in psychological assessment and provides comprehensive evaluations for individuals ages 10 and older.
Evaluations may help clarify questions involving:
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ADHD
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Anxiety
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Attention and executive functioning concerns
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Other psychological or diagnostic questions
Assessment isn't simply about attaching a diagnostic label.
A useful evaluation should help answer:
What's happening, what does it mean, and what do we do with that information?
Results are integrated into a comprehensive report with practical recommendations that can help clients, families, treatment providers, and other appropriate professionals determine useful next steps.
Professional Background
Dr. B. is a licensed psychologist in Kentucky and Indiana with experience in OCD and anxiety treatment, psychological assessment, ADHD, learning concerns, and substance use recovery.
He completed his predoctoral internship in Hazard, Kentucky and spent three months studying abroad at Oxford, England as part of his doctoral training.
Dr. B. is also an adjunct faculty member at Oral Roberts University, his alma mater.
He is a member of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) and currently serves as Chairman of OCD Kentucky, a nonprofit affiliate of the IOCDF dedicated to increasing OCD awareness, education, resources, and access to effective treatment throughout Kentucky.
His clinical work incorporates:
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Comprehensive psychological assessment
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Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
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OCD and anxiety treatment
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ADHD assessment
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Experience in substance use recovery
Lived Experience & OCD Advocacy
Dr. B. also brings lived experience with OCD to his professional work.
That experience doesn't mean assuming that another person's OCD looks exactly like his, or that there's one correct path through treatment.
Instead, it contributes another perspective on how convincing OCD can feel from the inside and how difficult it can be to practice responding differently even when someone intellectually understands what treatment asks them to do.
His work with OCD Kentucky extends that commitment beyond the therapy room through advocacy, education, and efforts to improve access to specialized OCD resources throughout the state.
Beyond the Therapy Room
Dr. B. has a wife and three children and is generally known around the clinic for having a smile on his face and a sense of humor close at hand.
He has also been searching for Sasquatch for several years.
Results thus far have been inconclusive.
There have additionally been persistent rumors that Dr. B. once played college basketball.
Dr. B. denies these allegations.
River City OCD Clinic is currently unable to independently verify either the basketball story or the existence of Sasquatch, although one of these investigations appears to remain active.
Work With Dr. B.
Dr. B. currently maintains a limited psychotherapy schedule at River City OCD Clinic while continuing to provide comprehensive psychological assessments for ADHD and related diagnostic concerns.
For individuals seeking ongoing OCD or anxiety therapy, our team can help determine which River City clinician currently has availability and may be the best fit.
For individuals and families seeking comprehensive psychological assessment, Dr. B. continues to accept evaluation inquiries for clients ages 10 and older.
You don't need to know exactly which diagnosis explains the difficulties you're experiencing before contacting us.
Figuring that out is one of the reasons comprehensive assessment exists.