In your work as a mental health professional, you may work with a client who seems to return to the same concerns over and over again. You recognize that they are experiencing anxiety and that it’s interfering with their life, but using typical interventions don’t seem to have a lasting effect for this client.

Skip ahead a few sessions and the client continues to come in with the same concerns and it doesn’t seem like progress is being made. They are reporting no changes, continued anxiety and distressing experiences that continue to interfere with their life. You may start questioning your approach, what to do next, whether they’re doing the homework and using the skills as discussed, and you may even experience some frustration and self-doubt. You’ve been hearing about OCD, and determine that’s what’s happening! So now what?

Perhaps you want to learn how to conceptualize these cases and build confidence in your skills for treating anxiety and OCD as a therapist. Or it could be that you want to learn actual effective interventions and how to use them in order to improve your clients’ success stories. Maybe you want to become an OCD specialist to be able market and niche down in your private practice. Whatever it is, consulting with an OCD specialist is an important resource for you to utilize along your journey to becoming an OCD specialist yourself.

I have extensive experience working successfully with clients and providing consultation, supervision and training to other mental health professionals. Consultation is a form of advocacy for me as I share my expertise with the goal of helping others experience confidence and competence in their clinical skills and to increase the success clients talk about in their stories about counseling and OCD treatment.