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OACCPP: OACCPP stands for the Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists, a professional association in Ontario.
OASW: OASW stands for the Ontario Association of Social Workers.
Object-relations: In the curious terminology of psychoanalysis, people who matter to us are termed 'objects' while we, in relation to them, are termed 'subjects'.
Obsessions: Obsessions are ideas, images and impulses that run through the person's mind over and over again.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, also known as OCD, is characterized by obsessive thoughts and/or compulsive behaviors that significantly interfere with normal life.
OCD: See Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
OCSWSSW: OCSWSSW stands for the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers.
OHIP: OHIP is the Ontario Health Insurance Plan, a medical health insurance plan.

OHIP is the province’s tax-supported health insurance plan for residents of the Province of Ontario.
On-line/Skype/VOIP: On-line/Skype/VOIP psychotherapy uses video and audio software that allows you and your therapist to see and hear each other over a secure connection. It is a simple way to work with a therapist who may be too far to visit regularly.
Openness: This word is now common in American English to describe a desirable and refreshing human quality of acceptance, trust and curiosity about the mysterious workings of the human spirit.
Oppression: Oppression is the unjust use of power, on a continual basis, by one group over another, using political power and ideology in a way that creates and sustains inequity in the distribution of resources.
Orgone: A term coined by Wilhelm Reich to describe the fundamental psychic-somatic essence of vitality.
Orthorexia Nervosa: Orthorexia nervosa refers to a fixation on eating healthy food.
OSP: OSP stands for the Ontario Society of Psychotherapists, a professional grouping of psychotherapists based in Ontario.
Otherness: This term functions to speak of many things that were once subsumed under the term 'mystery'.

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