2.5 hour training - £100 (6 months access)

The Integrative Centre for OCD Therapy are pleased to bring you this on-demand training with Centre Directors Stuart Ralph and Jonny Say in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Skills for OCD treatment.

Who is this training for?

This presentation (recorded from a live training) is for practitioners (mental health professionals) in the area of treatment of OCD. In this two-plus hour online workshop for qualified and trainee counsellors, psychotherapists, and psychologists experienced in working with OCD, this training explores the ACT tools we use for OCD therapy. A basic understanding of ACT and the hexaflex will help as this won’t be covered on this training as we are focusing on the skills primarily.

What is ACT for OCD?

ACT is now recommended in combination with Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) as a frontline treatment for OCD by the International OCD Foundation. ACT provides a systematic approach to being able to mindfully observe obsession (intrusive thoughts), let go of compulsions and voluntarily direct one’s attention to what matters most in that moment. In other words, it provides tools to help clients do the Response Prevention (RP) part of ERP more effectively. Many clients struggle to just ‘sit with obsessions and associated emotions’ and ‘drop compulsions’. ACT provides a framework to learn to do this.

ACT also enables clients to connect their ERP work more closely to their values and goals for living a meaningful life. This enables clients to relate more deeply to a values-based motivation to do the hard work of OCD recovery.

3 hour training - £80 (6 months access)

This training is a recorded version of a live training.

The Centre is pleased to offer a rare opportunity to train with Dr. Steven Phillipson, a leading expert in OCD treatment. This three-hour online workshop is designed for qualified and trainee counsellors, psychotherapists, and psychologists experienced in treating OCD.

Focusing on Dr. Phillipson’s approach to “Pure O” OCD, the training will explore Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), psychoeducation, and Dr Phillipson's approach to OCD treatment.

ERP remains the gold standard for OCD treatment—whether used alone or alongside medication. While new treatment methods have emerged, they often overlook the proven success of ERP. This workshop will reinforce the neurological and clinical foundations of ERP, providing attendees with essential tools to treat the emotional complexities—such as anxiety, guilt, and shame—that characterize Pure O OCD. Dr Phillipson will share some of the tools he uses with his patients.

Dr Phillipson is joined on the training by one of his clients, who shares her experience with OCD and recovery.

2.5 hour training - £60 (6 months access)

For therapists experienced in OCD/ERP/CBT, this 2.5-hour workshop introduces ACT and compassion-focused skills to address common challenges like rumination, emotional overwhelm, shame, and resistance.

Learn a progression of ACT tools to support ERP, increase motivation through values and self-compassion, and help clients engage more effectively.

The session includes practical exercises (e.g., dropping anchor, urge surfing), troubleshooting barriers, and applying Values-Based ERP.

You'll also explore how to use client feedback to guide interventions and ensure ACT skills enhance values rather than become compulsive. Ideal for clinicians ready to deepen and refine their ERP approach.

3 hour training - £60 (6 months access)

Are you a humanistic, psychodynamic, integrative counsellor, psychologist, or psychotherapist outside of a CBT framework but want to support clients with OCD without exacerbating symptoms? Working Safely with OCD is a unique training designed for therapists like you who want to understand OCD’s complexities while keeping clients safe, until they receive evidence based OCD care, or if they already have, how to support them while doing your relational or other work.

While ERP is the “gold standard” for OCD, clients often need additional support—they may not be ready for ERP, are already working on emotional issues with you, or have had CBT before. This training fills that gap, equipping you to work safely with OCD in your current approach to not make symptoms worse.

This training will empower you to:

Recognise OCD patterns and subtypes

Provide supportive, informed care until clients are ready for ERP or specialised treatment

Support your clients with confidence and compassion. Join us to work safely with OCD, tailored to your therapeutic approach.

1.5 hour training - £50 (6 months access)

This is a rare training on FAP for OCD. We are pleased to offer it to you. 

This Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) for OCD Training is a 1 hour 40 minute training, edited down from a 4 hours original training that included actual client footage (now edited out for confidentiality). This training is designed for qualified and trainee counselors, psychotherapists, and psychologists experienced in working with OCD, this training explores the integration of FAP in OCD treatment.

Evidence-based therapy is shifting from treatment protocols (e.g., ERP for OCD) to a more sophisticated integration of evidence-based treatment methods tailored to the needs of individual clients. Therapies like ERP and ACT are widely used for OCD, but these therapies view OCD through intra-personal factors (obsessions, rituals, avoidance) rather than interpersonal factors (emotional awareness, authentic self-expression, observing one’s impact on others). A growing number of seasoned, evidence-based clinicians are addressing how interpersonal factors contribute to OCD.

The workshop is led by experienced OCD clinicians, Nate Gruner, LICSW, and Meaghan Cleary, LMHC, both affiliated with McLean Hospital OCD Institute.