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This is an introductory course for psychotherapists on the identification and treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Not only are typical symptoms of OCD reviewed but common psychiatric features, as well as more atypical presentations are also summarized. Various treatments for this disorder, ranging from pharmacological and behavioral to surgical, are also noted.
The first set of articles in this course provides a broad definition, description, and etiology for OCD. The second set of articles provides insight into more specialized presentations of OCD and compulsive behaviors. An audiotaped interview with Meredith Watkins, MFT notes changes made in the recent revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fifth Revision (DSM-5) that directly impact the diagnosis of OCD (transcript provided). The following article reviews some of the treatment options for OCD. The next set of articles presents information for the identification and treatment of OCD in children. Additional resources and references are provided for further study, but they are not part of the course.
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<li>De Silva, P. (2014). Obsessive-compulsive disorder. In Adult psychological problems (pp. 143-162). London, England: Taylor &amp; Francis.</li>
<li>Pauls, D. L., Abramovitch, A., Rauch, S. L., &amp; Geller, D. A. (2014). Obsessive-compulsive disorder: an integrative genetic and neurobiological perspective. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 15 (6), 410-424.</li>
<li>Richter, P. M., &amp; Ramos, R. T. (2018). Obsessive-compulsive disorder. Continuum: Lifelong Learning in Neurology, 24 (3), 828-844.</li>
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Sage Breslin, PhD

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This webinar satisfies requirements for live interactive CE credits for all professions.
DESCRIPTION: Shame and self-blame are among the most pervasive and clinically challenging forces in trauma work — yet they are often misread, minimized, or missed entirely. Clients who withdraw from care, relentlessly criticize themselves, present with persistent self-doubt, or seem stuck despite solid therapeutic progress may be living inside a shame response that neither they nor their clinicians have fully named. When shame goes unrecognized, treatment stalls and clients suffer unnecessarily.
This webinar offers clinicians a practical and theoretically grounded framework for understanding and working with shame and self-blame across trauma presentations. Drawing on key frameworks including Tangney&#8217;s shame-guilt distinction, Nathanson&#8217;s Compass of Shame, Brown&#8217;s Shame Resilience Theory, Etherson&#8217;s Shame Containment Theory, and Gilbert&#8217;s compassion-focused approach, participants will learn to recognize shame-based clinical presentations, understand their developmental and relational origins, and apply evidence-informed interventions in the therapy room. The course includes case illustrations and is applicable to psychologists, therapists, social workers, and counselors across disciplines who work with trauma-affected clients regardless of diagnosis or population.
Target audience: This course is appropriate for all mental health professionals
Content level: Introductory/Intermediate

Working with Shame and Self-Blame in Trauma Therapy

This webinar satisfies requirements for live interactive CE credits for all professions.
DESCRIPTION:
AI chatbots, technically referred to as large language models, have been adopted faster than any technology in history, for reasons not hard to understand: they do not just provide information, they offer comfort. That is a powerful combination for people who are increasingly lonely, stressed, and mistrustful of others. Whether or not we consider ourselves technically inclined, AI is already part of our clients’ emotional lives.
This webinar is the first in a series of three that offers participants an orientation to where things stand: the social forces driving AI adoption, the specific technologies clients are using, and the multiple roles these technologies can play, including friend, lover, and therapist.
This training is designed for clinicians at every level of technical comfort, including those who have never interacted with a chatbot. Research regarding the potential therapeutic effectiveness of chatbots and how they compete with traditional therapy, will be reviewed.  We will look at what AI tools can genuinely offer clients, as well as the risks that deserve our clinical attention. We’ll give particular care to vulnerable populations, including adolescents and clients with attachment challenges. Participants will leave with a clearer map of this new terrain and a solid foundation for webinars two and three.
Target audience: This course is appropriate for all mental health professionals
Content level: Introductory/Intermediate

When Clients Turn to AI

When Clients Turn to AI: Understanding the Rise of Chatbots and AI Mental Health Support

This webinar satisfies requirements for live interactive CE credits for all professions.
DESCRIPTION:Your clients are already using AI. The clinical question is no longer whether to address it, but how. This webinar is the practical core of the series: how to screen for AI use at intake in a way that opens the conversation rather than closing it, how to assess the function AI is serving in a client’s life, and how to have honest conversations about benefits and risks without pathologizing a tool the client may genuinely value. We will distinguish between AI use that enriches a client’s relational world and use that substitutes for it.
<div>The second half moves from assessment to integration. We will work through concrete ways AI can be brought into treatment deliberately, including AI as a between-session homework facilitator, for psychoeducation, and for customized relaxation and guided experiences. The webinar closes with detailed clinical vignettes such as a chatbot in the couples therapy room, and a client presenting with AI psychosis.</div>
Target audience: This course is appropriate for all mental health professionals
Content level: Introductory/Intermediate

Assessing AI Use in Therapy

Assessing AI Use in Therapy: How to Talk with Clients About Chatbots and When to Be Concerned

This webinar satisfies requirements for live interactive CE credits for all professions.
DESCRIPTION: The final webinar turns to the questions of ethics, business strategy, and our own experience. AI raises ethical challenges that our professional guidelines have not yet caught up with, including confidentiality, documentation, liability, informed consent, and the value and limits of peer guidance when the ground is shifting this quickly. We will examine concrete options for becoming more competitive, including integrating VR protocols, deepening our human presence in the therapy room, offering a hybrid therapy + AI model of care, reconsidering fees and availability, and reskilling toward the areas where AI consistently falls short: severe mental illness, couples therapy, trauma, family systems, and forensics.
The webinar closes with a discussion of the personal reactions most of us are having to our rapidly changing professional landscape and world. Together, we will consider countertransference with AI-involved clients, the challenge of sitting with an uncertain professional future, AI’s reach into our personal and family lives, and self-care as a clinical imperative rather than a luxury. We will close by exploring the meaning and opportunity this moment holds for therapists willing to meet it.
Target audience: This course is appropriate for all mental health professionals
Content level: Introductory/Intermediate

The AI-Informed Clinician

The AI-Informed Clinician: Ethics, Bias, and Staying Current in a Rapidly Changing Landscape

Therapy in the Age of AI

Therapy in the Age of AI: How Therapists Can Navigate, Adapt, and Thrive Alongside AI

This webinar satisfies requirements for live interactive CE credits for all professions.
This webinar approved for AASECT credit.
DESCRIPTION: No matter what people do, we do it in a body. That includes how we work, play, eat, parent, make love, think, feel, and die.
And so every patient’s body is part of the therapeutic process. Each week, you see patients struggling not just with illness, but with chronic pain, insomnia, limited mobility, loss of function, infertility, food allergies, sexual dysfunction, hidden disabilities, and weight problems. They also struggle with shame and/or isolation.
Bodily conditions quietly organize patients’ marriages, their parenting, their capacity for pleasure, their very self-image. Your patient with arthritis isn’t just in pain—she’s also exhausted, feeling old, and watching her husband slowly become her caretaker. Your patient with Crohn’s disease has organized his entire social life around bathroom access. These are not peripheral issues; they’re crucial to understanding who these people are and what they need.
This webinar isn’t about trauma or somatic therapies. It’s about developing a clinical lens that sees how physical life is intertwined with psychological life. You’ll leave with practical tools for productive conversations that most patients will gratefully join.
Target audience: This course is appropriate for all mental health professionals
Content level: Introductory/Intermediate

Problematized Bodies

Problematized Bodies: How Our Physical Selves Shape Love, Work, & Identity

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