My OCD Coach: About Danielle & the team
About My OCD Coach

I built the help I couldn't find.

I'm Danielle Jhiani, founder of My OCD Coach. I spent years lost in OCD before I found a way out. Now I help people all over the world do the same, faster, and with results that actually last.

500+Clients worldwide
30+Countries reached
2021In recovery since
Danielle Jhiani, founder of My OCD Coach
"Recovery isn't luck. It's a skill you can learn."Danielle Jhiani
Danielle Jhiani From the founder

Hi, I'm Danielle.

For years, OCD ran my life. I know the 3am spirals, the endless reassurance-seeking, and the quiet fear that something is deeply wrong with you. I also know the way out, and I've made it my life's work to guide you there.

Danielle JhianiFounder, My OCD Coach

Our mission

To make OCD recovery accessible to people around the world, helping them break free, stay free, and live free.

We help people learn to break the OCD cycle, prevent it from taking hold again, and live with lasting confidence, peace, and connection to the people and things that matter most.

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Danielle Jhiani
♥In the recovery stage
since 2021
My story

The long road to a way out.

For most of my twenties, OCD had me convinced that if I just thought or searched hard enough, I could finally solve the doubt. Relationship OCD, somatic OCD, just right OCD, harm OCD, health OCD, the theme kept changing, but the trap was always the same.

I did everything I was "supposed" to. I found ERP, the gold-standard treatment, and it helped. But something was still missing, and I kept slipping back into the cycle.

So I combined my formal education in Psychology and Applied Behavior Analysis with everything I learned clawing my own way out, and built The REAL Method™, a simpler, more sustainable path to the recovery stage.

Since 2021, I've lived in that recovery stage. And I've helped hundreds of people worldwide, including OCD therapists who quietly struggle themselves, finally break free.

The REAL Method™

A simpler path to lasting recovery.

Building upon ERP, the gold standard for OCD, this method helps you recognize the cycle before it starts and gives you the steps to stop it and keep it from creeping back in. Four steps, one outcome: freedom that holds.

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Simple

Recovery doesn't have to be complicated. Four simple steps you can actually follow, even on the hard days.

02

Repeatable

The same steps work on any theme, so when a new doubt or fear shows up, you already know exactly what to do.

03

Effective

Built on what actually moves the needle, so the freedom you build is freedom that holds when you use it consistently.

Real results

Hundreds of clients.
One pattern: freedom.

The REAL Method™ has helped people from all over the world, including OCD therapists who struggle themselves, finally break free.

★★★★★

"I'd done ERP with two different therapists and still felt stuck. Danielle helped me see the compulsions no one had ever named. Six weeks in, I felt like me again."

M
Maya R.
Relationship OCD
★★★★★

"I felt like I was led by God to Danielle's program. I was in a really rough place in life and her kind, gentle, and caring approach was the touch I needed to get me to recovery."

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Stephanie S.
Harm OCD
★★★★★

"I'm a therapist myself. Working with Danielle was the recovery I could never quite find for my own OCD. I am so grateful!"

S
Sam L.
Health OCD
What we believe

The principles behind the work.

Everything at My OCD Coach comes back to a few simple beliefs about how real recovery actually happens.

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Recovery is a skill

Not willpower, not luck. It can be taught, mastered, and kept for life.

02

Meet you where you are

No judgement, no shame. Just the next right step for you, at your pace.

03

Radical honesty

We'll always tell you the truth about recovery, so you get results.

04

24/7 Support

Recovery doesn't keep office hours, so neither does the support we give you.

Training & credentials

Education-backed, led by lived-experience.

My approach blends my formal education and training with the one credential you can't study for: getting out of OCD myself, and staying out.

Certified Coach ERP-educated Behavior Analyst Recovered since 2021 Founder, My OCD Coach LLC
  • B.S. in Psychology
  • Applied Behavior Analysis training
  • ERP & exposure-based methods
  • Ongoing OCD-specialty education
  • Creator of The REAL Method™
  • Recovered from multiple OCD subsets
The team

Meet your coaches.

Guided by coaches who get it. Every coach has overcome multiple OCD subsets and is trained in The REAL Method™. Chosen for warmth, expertise, and real understanding.

Danielle Jhiani

Danielle Jhiani

Founder & Head Coach

Founder of My OCD Coach and creator of The REAL Method™, Danielle has recovered from Relationship OCD, Health OCD, Just Right OCD, Somatic OCD, and Harm OCD, but has helped clients with every OCD subset.

Allison Colak

Allison Colak

OCD Recovery Coach

Living internationally has shaped Allison's coaching style for different cultures and lifestyles. She's overcome Harm OCD, Health OCD, ROCD, Somatic OCD, POCD, SO-SOCD, and other unnamed taboo topics.

Erica Lacher

Erica Lacher

OCD Recovery Coach

Erica brings a spiritual approach to her anxiety & OCD recovery coaching. She's tackled Relationship OCD, SO-OCD, POCD, Just Right OCD, and Optimization OCD.

Let's talk

Your way out starts with a conversation.

Book a free 15-minute fit call and let's figure out the right next step for you. No pressure, just a clear path.