Unblock OCD: ERP in Clinical Practice

About Course

Most clinicians are familiar with Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) as the gold-standard treatment for OCD.
What often remains unclear is how to actually implement it in a real session — with patient resistance, fluctuating anxiety, and the need to structure exposures meaningfully.

This program is built around that gap.

What this course delivers:

Rather than revisiting definitions, the focus is on how ERP functions in practice — how to identify targets, structure exposure tasks, and guide patients through distress without reinforcing compulsions.

You will work through:

– Understanding OCD phenomenology in a treatment-focused way
– Identifying target symptoms and structuring assessment using Y-BOCS
– Building graded fear hierarchies using SUDS
– Designing and implementing in vivo exposure step-wise
– Conducting imaginal exposure for covert fears
– Using exposure scripts in a structured manner
– Managing avoidance, resistance, and ritualisation during sessions
– Integrating ERP within psychiatric management
– Adapting ERP to real-world clinical constraints

How the learning is structured

The teaching follows a clinical progression:

Foundations → Assessment → Hierarchy Building → Exposure Implementation → Relapse Prevention

Each stage builds into the next, mirroring how ERP is actually practiced.

Approach and faculty

The course is taught through a multi-clinician lens.
Psychiatrists and clinical psychologists contribute complementary perspectives, allowing you to understand how ERP is adapted across clinical settings rather than applied as a fixed protocol.

Faculty:

– Ms. Gunjan Joshi
MSc, M.Phil Clinical Psychology (KGMU, Lucknow)
RCI Licensed Clinical Psychologist

– Dr. Aditya Agrawal
MBBS (AIIMS-J), MD (KGMU)
Psychiatrist

– Ms. Pritanshi Jeswani
M.Phil Clinical Psychology
Clinical Psychologist, Research Associate (KGMU, Lucknow)

Who this is meant for

This is intended for:
– Psychiatrists
– Clinical psychologists
– Therapists and Mental Health Professionals

It is not designed as an introductory or self-help course.

Access and certification

All sessions are available as recorded lectures and presentations for your viewing in flexible plans
A certificate of participation is issued on completion.

Outcome

The aim is not just familiarity with ERP, but the ability to use it —
to move from understanding OCD treatment to applying structured, effective ERP in real clinical work.