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3 CE Credits

• Members - $80
• Non-members - $130
• Students - $40

Workshop Description:

Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) has been the recommended first-line treatment for OCD for decades. While effective, recent comprehensive meta-analyses of ERP show clinically significant change (CSC) for just 50% of sufferers (Öst et al., 2015 & Reid et al., 2021). In this workshop, an evidence-based alternative to ERP will be presented. I-CBT is a unique reasoning-based cognitive treatment specifically designed for OCD. This overview of the treatment model and its conceptualization of OCD will include how obsessions are created by a faulty reasoning narrative referred to as inferential confusion and how reducing inferential confusion treats OCD. The current state of empirical support will also be discussed. 

Workshop Objectives:

1. Attendees will be able to conceptualize OCD from an I-CBT model.
2. Attendees will be able to distinguish inferential confusion from normal intrusive thoughts

About the Presenters:

Mike Heady, LCPC is the Co-Owner & Co-Director of the Anxiety and Stress Disorders Institute of Maryland where he has specialized in the treatment of OCD, anxiety disorders, and related conditions for the last 16-years. He is a faculty member of the IOCDF’s Training Institute and is a regular presenter at annual conferences for the IOCDF and ADAA. He provides regular consultation to therapists and has produced numerous professional webinars on topics related to OCD treatment as well as trainings in ERP and ICBT. He has appeared on several podcasts discussing shame, intimacy, perfectionism, ERP, I-CBT, and other OCD related issues.