S2E72: Shifting Attention to the Present: Bringing Hope for our OCD Warriors with Carl Robbins, LCPC
Join your host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, as she resumes our conversation with special guest expert, Carl Robbins, LCPC. Carl and Nicole expand the conversation started in Season 2, Episode 71, and Carl brings many helpful exercises and analogies to help the OCD Family Community better understand the role of imaginal absorption in OCD. Carl illuminates and supports his sharing with the backing of Inference-Based CBT, an evidence based practice for the treatment of OCD. So join the conversation, fam! Because there's a lot to learn and so much hope available for our OCD warriors.
To catch up on last week’s episode, where Carl introduced a foundation for the role of dissociation and imaginal absorption, click here.
Resources and Citations:
To learn more about Carl Robbins, LCPC, and his work at the Anxiety and Stress Institute, click here.
To learn more about Inference-Based CBT, click here.
To check out more info on the Dissociative Experiences Scale - II, or DES-II, click here.
To look into the research by Dr. Nirit Soffer-Dudek, Ph.D., click here.
To pick up your own copy of the Clinician's Handbook for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Inference-Based Therapy, click here.
To visit the International OCD Foundation to learn more about Exposure and Response Prevention therapy, click here.
This is a visual directive for this episode’s Intrusive Thoughts segment.
To explore more jokes and riddles, including the joke featured at the top of this episode, click here.
To read more about the 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Grounding exercise, click here.
