If you’re working with clients with OCD, panic, or any form of anxiety, no matter where you’re in the treatment, and no matter how familiar you are with exposure-based interventions, this webinar will augment your clinical skills on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) to guide your clients to fill the gap where they are and where they want to go.

All the content of this webinar aims to answer a specific question: how does ACT facilitate exposure interventions for OCD.

At a general level, you will learn the scientific underpinnings behind contextual behavioral science and exposure therapy as the basis to understand how ACT + ERP blend together. As the webinar progresses, you will train your eyes and ears to notice how the client is responding and how you’re responding to the client’s behaviors as a frame to either deliver “acceptance-based interventions” or “change-based interventions.” You will have an opportunity to practice all these ACT shifts in small groups and experience first-hand the flexibility of the ACT model when facilitating exposure work.

Throughout the webinar, you will notice how within the ACT model exposure exercises are, by nature, a process. You will be encouraged to find your own rhythm when facilitating them to help your clients to get their life back on track, full of vitality and presence instead of them powering through exposures, with a scatterbrain or even as another form of avoidance or compulsive behavior.

I will certainly do my best to present you with ACT skills in a simple, uncomplicated, unpretentious, and jargon-free manner. More importantly, I will share with you all the ACT skills and processes that I introduce to my clients and I see them using day-to-day to make a real turn from surviving into thriving!

While this online class focuses on adults, you can access a session focused on children and teens!