CBT for COMPULSIVE BUYING HELP

Compulsive Shopping Treatment – tailored to you by a Specialized Addiction Therapist & CBT Specialist

Together, we map out how your buying habits interact with your emotions, look at the patterns that happen online or in stores, and implement practical CBT tools at a pace that feels right to you.

Ontario-wide

Receipts for Benefits

No wait list

My Clinical Expertise in CBT and Behavioural Addictions

Along with a Master’s Degree in Social Work, I have an Ontario Addictions Certificate with a specialization in Behavioral Addictions – Shopping, Gaming, Tech Use etc.

I have successfully helped many people who over shop.

Mary Cross therapist
Mary Cross MSW RSW, Therapist

Teamwork makes the dream work

  1. Get to know you: We map your history and current stressors.
  2. Target your goals: We zero in exactly on what you want to achieve.
  3. Build your toolkit: Learn practical techniques to change unhelpful thoughts

Is This You?

  • Spending beyond what you can afford
  • Regretting your purchases
  • Hiding what you bought from a loved one
  • Feeling compelled to buy things
  • Buying things when you feel sad, angry or bored
  • You’ve tried to cut back, but it hasn’t worked

The Shopping Problem

We live in a North American consumer culture specifically engineered to make us buy things. Whether it is the visual pull of physical retail stores, the convenience of tap-to-pay checkout counters, or the constant temptation of online shopping apps, the urge to spend is everywhere.

( The terms Shopping Addiction, Compulsive Buying Disorder, Shopaholic, OCD Shopping, Impulse Buying, and Oniomania are often used interchangeably.)

My Style of CBT for Compulsive Buying

I’ll get to know you, your background, history and truly understand you.

After, we will gently explore and address the root drivers—whether that looks like adult ADHD impulses, high anxiety, or managing low mood, boredom etc.

We then make a plan that fits your values and realities and you learn CBT techniques and other methods to change habits, control your emotions and thoughts in order to stick with your plan.

I offer a no obligation Free 30 Minute Consultation