OCD is treatable
Our workshops help you become the clinician who treats it effectively.
Many clinicians hold back from working with OCD because they believe it requires a highly specialised expertise they don't yet have. In reality, much of what makes a skilled clinician transfers directly: the ability to build a strong therapeutic relationship, to understand anxiety and avoidance, and to work collaboratively toward change.
These workshops help you recognise and trust the skills you already bring, and build deliberately on them by adding targeted, evidence-based tools to strengthen your practice and treat OCD with greater confidence and effectiveness.
New to OCD
Discover the transferable skills you already have, and gain the knowledge and tools to begin working with OCD confidently.
Already Working with OCD
Deepen your clinical understanding, refine your approach, and build greater effectiveness across a wider range of presentations.
Recognise Your Strengths
Identify the transferable skills you already have for working with OCD
Deepen Your Knowledge
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Build on what you know with evidence-based, OCD-specific understanding
Treat With Confidence
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Gain targeted tools to work effectively across OCD presentations
Workshop 1
OCD: Foundations of Assessment and Treatment
A comprehensive overview of OCD covering phenomenology, symptom presentation, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning. The focus is on building a strong clinical foundation in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), including how to structure treatment, develop hierarchies, and apply ERP in real-world settings.
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OCD Phenomenology
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Diagnosis
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Addressing common stuckpoints
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OCD Subtypes
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ERP
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Practical tools
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Assessment
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Shifting rigid OCD beliefs
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Resources
Ideal for clinicians wanting clarity, structure, and confidence in working with OCD.
Workshop 2
Advanced Clinical Skills: Differential Diagnosis, Comorbidity and Family Work
Builds on foundational knowledge and focuses on the complexities that often arise in clinical practice. Special attention is given to working effectively with families and caregivers, working with comorbid presentations, and strengthening systemic understanding of OCD.
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Differential diagnosis
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Family and caregiver involvement
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OCD + Trauma
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OCD + Neurodiversity
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Formulation with Comorbidities
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OCD + Depression
Ideal for clinicians working with more complex, layered, or treatment-resistant presentations.
Meet your Facilitators
Dr Claire Ahern
Claire is a clinical psychologist with over 15 years of experience working with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and related conditions (e.g., body-focussed repetitive behaviours, hoarding disorder, body dysmorphic disorder). Her work spans direct clinical practice, research, clinical supervision, and education, and is shaped by a conviction that OCD is highly treatable when clinicians have the right knowledge, tools, and confidence to work with it effectively.
Claire’s PhD research examined self-concept in OCD through experimental models, drawing on attachment theory and cognitive frameworks. This research informs an approach to ERP that goes beyond reducing compulsions, to target the core self-beliefs that drive OCD at its roots.
Her postdoctoral work with online CBT for OCD highlighted how important accurate, well-framed information can be in supporting effective treatment. That insight, and a desire to make evidence-based resources more widely accessible, led Claire to develop OCD Online, a platform bringing together trusted, clinician-informed resources for people living with OCD and the people who support them.
The above research foundation directly informs how Claire works clinically. While ERP remains central to her work, she integrates a range of contemporary approaches (e.g., I-CBT, RF-ERP, ACT, EMDR, etc.) allowing for flexible, formulation-driven treatment that addresses both symptoms and underlying self-beliefs.
Working from a strengths-based approach, she is passionate about helping clinicians recognise the skills they already bring, build on them, and develop genuine confidence in their ability to create meaningful outcomes for their clients.
Dr Kit Casey
Dr Kit Casey is a Clinical Psychologist working in solo private practice and holds a concurrent position at Alfred Health. She developed a strong interest in OCD during her clinical training at the OCD Inpatient Program at The Melbourne Clinic, and has since specialised in the assessment and treatment of OCD and anxiety disorders, including the use of Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). Kit enjoys working with the treatment opportunities and challenges that OCD presents, including its idiosyncratic nature and the dynamic, creative ways ERP can be used.
Kit also has experience supporting individuals with a broad range of concerns, including phobias, mood disorders, psychotic disorders, and interpersonal difficulties. She takes a supportive and collaborative approach to therapy, drawing on evidence-based treatments such as CBT, ACT, Schema Therapy, and DBT, which she tailors to the unique needs and goals of each client.