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Webinar 07.14.2020

Using the Choice Point & ACT Skills to Augment Your Exposures!

This webinar delves into the nuts and bolts of how to conduct an ACT consistent exposure session, starting with a contextual-functional assessment of OCD symptoms, organizing a values-based exposure menu, increasing clients’ willingness to get out from their fear-based zone and move into values-based exposures, and troubleshooting when getting stuck in an exposure session (e.g. clients have a high degree of believability on thought – action – fusion, client’s continue to have hopes for obsessions to go away, clients’ exposures turn into rituals, etc).

Webinar 07.03.2020

OCD, COVID & Return to Life

Anxiety across the globe is at an all-time high with a pandemic that has brought fear and uncertainty to all. For individuals with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), there has been a risk for increased symptoms, due to COVID-19 and increased isolation.

Sierra Carter, PhD

Dr.

Webinar 07.02.2020

Racial Trauma, PTSD, and Health Equity: Understanding Racism as a Public Health Pandemic

This webinar provides an overview of the ways in which racial discrimination impacts the health and well-being of Black Americans, a marginalized population that disproportionately experiences racial health disparities influenced by race-related stress. This webinar also further elucidate the importance of examining racial discrimination in the conceptualization of trauma experiences and treatments.

Burke Garrett

Burke Garrett is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who serves as executive advisor to the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program in Atlanta, Georgia.

Webinar 06.24.2020

Healing Invisible Wounds

Post-traumatic stress disorder is a national public health challenge that disproportionately affects those who served our nation. Although the diagnosis has its roots in combat, the medical community now recognizes that PTSD affects civilians and service members alike.

Blog post 06.24.2020

Flipping the Script: When the Therapist Becomes the Patient

As I was being discharged from the hospital after an 11-day stay, a friend texted me: “The hard part’s over!” In one sense she was correct – I’d completed the antibiotics for COVID, my sepsis was gone, and my pneumonia and kidney function were improving. But that was just the physical battle.

Webinar 06.22.2020

Positive Behavioral Strategies in Exposure Practice

Participants discussed and learned to apply behavioral principles from Parent Management Training (PMT) and Parent-Child Interaction Training (PCIT) to Exposure and Response Prevention. Then, participants discussed a case example involving behavioral treatment for Selective Mutism, Separation Anxiety Disorder, and Oppositional Defiant Disorder.

Erika Vivyan, PhD

Erika J. Vivyan, PhD (she/her/hers) is a bilingual (Spanish-English) Licensed Psychologist based in Austin, Texas. She specializes in providing therapy for kids, teens, and young adults with anxiety and behavioral disorders. Dr.

Fugen Neziroglu, PhD, ABPP, ABBP

Dr. Fugen Neziroglu is a board-certified behavior and cognitive psychologist, and leading researcher on anxiety disorders. She is the co-founder and director of the Bio Behavioral Institute in Great Neck NY, a clinic specializing in anxiety and obsessive-compulsive related disorders.

Webinar 06.21.2020

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Model and Treatment for Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Blog post 06.19.2020

Body Dysmorphic Disorder and the Impact of COVID-19 and Quarantine

Body Dysphoric Disorder (BDD) is described as the disease of “self- perceived ugliness” or “self-imagined ugliness.” It is also seen as a distressing preoccupation with one or more physical non-existence “defects.” In the DSM-5, BDD is classified under Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders.