Presenting: Case examples; Case Conseptualisation; Workbook and Information Pack; Live Demonstrations; Protocol with Easy-to-Follow Framework showing Step-by-Step guidance, Overview of Research; Integrative Approaches to Treating the Roots of OCD

The 5-hour recording of this event and learning pack will provide:

A comprehensive way to treat OCD beyond standard CBT and ERP?

The OCD-EMDR Team invites you to purchase the on-demand recording and learning pack of our specialist webinar. This learning experience offers a deep dive into an integrative, attachment based framework of EMDR, conceptualising OCD's roots as an adaptive response.

Event Details

• Topic: EMDR for OCD – An Integrative Approach
• Date: recorded on the 29th March 2026 live and now available to view on-demand
• Time: learn at your own pace with this 5 hour recording and learning pack
• Hosts: Dr. Joyce Blake, Bea Carrington, and Linda Sunderland

 visit here: courses.ocd-emdr.com

Why?

Standard protocols can feed into OCD loops and cycles with the complex presentation of OCD cases. This webinar recording bridges the gap by treating OCD as an adaptive response rather than just a set of symptoms. You will learn to integrate EMDR with CBT, ERP, ACT, CFT, Poly-vagal theory, I-CBT and Somatic work.

What you will gain:

• ✅5 hour recording available for 90 days
• ✅Practical Tools: Receive your own blank template of our specialised EMDR Case Conceptualisation tool.
• ✅Step-by-Step Guidance: A copy of the OCD-EMDR Integrative framework / Protocol (developed with the support of Mark Brayne).
• ✅Clinical Confidence: Watch role-played demonstrations and learn from real case studies that illustrate how to apply these techniques
• ✅Holistic Insight: Learn to differentiate OCD from other anxiety disorders and assess risk when working with ego-dystonic and/or ego-syntonic thoughts (Harm/POCD).
• ✅ Relationship OCD Case Conceptualisation: often unfamiliar to clinicians this tool can support you to assess, formulate, understand, and treat relationship OCD by giving examples.
• ✅ Case Conceptualisation Generic Guidance completed version: The 3 pronged approach of EMDR through the lens of formative and attachment experiences and the development of OCD as an adaptive response. Mapping the present prong OCD cycles and past prong formative experiences that support in identifying things to note on the collaborative exploration and understanding of “how did it get to be this way”, and of course the direction towards the future prong of where we want to get to. 
• ✅ Power Point Slides / Handouts
• ✅ Risk Assessment and safeguarding Guidance
• ✅OCD-EMDR Workbook to support your learning

What Your Colleagues Said About the Event:

What did you find most useful about the 'EMDR for OCD – An Integrative Approach' webinar?

“The fact that it practices EMDR therapy in an integrative fashion, especially as it integrates attachment-based interventions as the psychology literature has established a clear link between OCD and attachment insecurity. ERP is effective for OCD but not for everyone with OCD; Therefore, some people who experience OCD can definitely benefit from other approach(es) that may even integrate ERP”

- Hector Pereles, Licensed Counselor (USA)

"A valuable space to deepen clinical understanding... I'd highly recommend it to any practitioner looking to strengthen their skills." > "Yes - I do enthusiastically recommend the workshop. I would say it is a paradigm shift in how we approach supporting clients living with OCD" — Shiraz Farrand, EMDR Consultant

""very knowledgeable speakers, great detail on how to put theory into practice" Webinar Live Participant

“A person-centred attitude where the client is not pathologised — Dr. Hoda Refaat Mahfouz, Consultant Psychiatrist

of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and how to differentiate from other anxiety disorders.

 

The specific aims are to:

• Define the diagnostic criteria of OCD: Describe diagnostic criteria for OCD and detail the characteristics of obsessions and compulsions and the associated distress
• Share information on appropriate risk assessment of ego-dystonic thoughts in harm and POCD.
• Explain the difference between ego-dystonic and ego-syntonic thoughts
• Explore the Science so far: Explore the possible aetiology (causes) and neurobiology of the condition.
• Review Recommended Treatment: Present the current evidence-based treatment mainly ERP for OCD and discuss its limitations.
• Introduce a specific OCD-EMDR Case Conceptualisation
• Introduce OCD-EMDR as an Alternative Therapy: Presenting an alternative case conceptualisation of OCD as an adaptive response and the rationale for an alternative therapeutic approach incorporating Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR). We provide guidance and demonstrations on how to implement it.
• Offer a rationale for adaption to the standard EMDR Model: Explain why attachment-based adaptations to EMDR improve the standard protocol specifically for clients with OCD.
• Illustrate Practical Application: Support the learning process with case studies demonstrating how to deliver EMDR for OCD using the OCD-EMDR approach.

 

What your colleagues say about the OCD-EMDR team…

“EMDR for OCD offers insightful, practical guidance in a supportive environment. It's a valuable space to deepen clinical understanding, explore complex cases, and gain confidence in applying EMDR with OCD. I'd highly recommend it to any practitioner looking to strengthen their skills in this area”. – Shiraz Farrand, EMDR Consultant

“Friendly, supportive, informative, instructive. Range/blend of expertise from the supervisors was really great. A person-centred attitude, where the client is not pathologized, and we were looking at 'what happened'. This closely aligns with my original person-centred psychotherapy training”. Group Participant.

"I appreciated your humble and respectful cultural curiosity which felt very important to me in the way you addressed the cases with specific cultural differences. Bea, Linda, and Joyce, each one of them has a unique perspective and different approaches to address the questions which enriched the session so much"- Dr. Hoda Refaat Mahfouz Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist in Egypt.

Dr Joyce Blake, Bea Carrington, and Linda Sunderland will be your hostsof this 5 hour on-demand learning experience!