ANNABELLA HAGEN
LCSW | Clinical Director and Founder
Therapeutic Specialties
Scrupulosity OCD and other OCD themes including relationship, harm, existential, perfectionism, real events, and other sub-themes where the person's persevering "safety behaviors" might be internal (e.g., rumination, mental checking, time-traveling) compulsions.
Client Population
Experienced working with children, adolescents, adults, and families.
Currently, I'm focused on working with young adults with scrupulosity OCD as well as young women and young men preparing to serve LDS missions or coming back early due to their challenges with scrupulosity and other OCD themes.
Since 2000, I have worked with children, adolescents, and adults, who struggle with OCD, anxiety, trauma, depression, grief, behavioral and family challenges.
Therapeutic Modalities
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) | Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) | Inference-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT) | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) | Mindfulness | Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
Education
- Master of Social Work - Brigham Young University
- Bachelor of Science - Psychology - Brigham Young University
- Graduate of the Behavior Therapy Training Institute for OCD (BTTI) - 2012
Other
Committee Member of the Faith and OCD Council for the IOCDF | Member, IOCD Foundation | Member, ACBS (Association for Contextual Behavioral Science | Presenter, International OCD Foundation Conferences | Presenter and Trainer on topics related to ACT and the treatment for OCD, anxiety, and depression
Books Published
- Scrupulosity book: Imperfectly Good: Navigating Religious and Moral Anxiety to Release Fear and Find Peace
- Anxiety book: Let Go of Anxiety: Climb Life's Mountains with Peace, Purpose, and Resilience
- Children's book: Emma's Worry Clouds (English and Spanish)
- Children's book: Nico, the Worried Caterpillar
- Parenting book (Co-author): The Masterpiece Mindset, a parenting book to empower your children.
My personal journey with OCD started with my youngest son, who required treatment. We tirelessly searched throughout the entire state for a therapist who employed evidence-based treatment methods and genuinely grasped the concept of OCD. As my son got older, he took the initiative to successfully seek treatment out of state.
I founded Mindset Family Therapy in 2008 to better serve our community's need for specialized local expertise. We have experienced overwhelming success in treating OCD and OC related disorders. In my humble opinion, we (clinicians at Mindset Family Therapy) understand OCD and know how to address it!
I'm grateful that there's an increasing awareness of the challenges OCD poses to sufferers, their loved ones, and faith leaders. Most importantly, it has been encouraging to observe that many mental health providers, faith leaders and families of clients struggling with this challenge are more aware that this is a mental health challenge requiring specialized training.
I received specialized training and supervision with experts at the Behavior Therapy Training Institute in 2012, sponsored by the International OCD Foundation. Currently, I oversee the training and supervision of our therapists, ensuring they learn from field experts. We participate in workshops and events annually, including the International OCD Foundation conferences, where our staff has also presented workshops and facilitated support groups since 2014.
