Workshop
Compassion Focused Therapy for OCD
Half day workshop with Lisa Williams
About this workshop
This session will focus on using compassion focused therapy (CFT) theory and practice to understand, formulate, and treat clients experiencing Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). We will explore key maintaining processes relevant to OCD, including shame, self‑criticism, threat-based attentional biases, fear of responsibility, intrusive thoughts, compulsive safety behaviours, and the ways in which these processes interact with broader developmental and social contexts.
The session will help therapists develop greater confidence in talking about intrusive thoughts, compulsions, and associated fears with their clients across individual, couple, and group settings. Using a compassion-focused framework, we will consider how threat-based loops become amplified in OCD, how fears of harm and responsibility become internalised, and how CFT can support clients in developing a more grounded, courageous, affiliative stance toward difficult internal experiences.
Participants will learn how to formulate OCD using a transdiagnostic CFT model, integrating evolutionary and functional understandings of threat, guilt, shame, and responsibility. The training is suitable for therapists with a good existing understanding of CFT who wish to deepen their skills in working compassionately and effectively with clients who struggle with OCD, self-criticism, and the emotional pain that surrounds intrusive thoughts and compulsions.
What you'll learn
How to formulate OCD using a transdiagnostic CFT model
Understanding OCD through a CFT informed framework
Deepening clinical skills in working with clients with OCD
Who this workshop is for
Mental Healthcare Practitioners (.g. psychologists, psychotherapists...)
Those with some prior training in CFT
Those working with OCD
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FAQs
Find answers to common questions about this workshop.
This workshop is aimed at those who have a good grounding in the foundations of Compassion Focused Therapy, so we do require that you have completed an Introductory workshop beforehand (please check the topics covered in the Introduction to CFT workshop on our Training Pathway). We generally recommend leaving at least six months between completing an Introductory workshop and attending the Clinical Skills workshop in order to give yourself time to practise with your clients, as this workshop will be aimed to helping you to build on your skills.
Introductory workshops held by other organisations will be accepted, so long as they are at least two days in length, include the topics covered in our Introduction to CFT course, and are led by a recognised CFT trainer. For any queries about this, please email hello@compassionatemind.co.uk
Yes, this course is suitable for those who are new to CFT, although some knowledge of the basics may be helpful.
Unfortunately, this workshop will not be suitable for those with no prior CFT training. The trainer will be teaching the workshop on the assumption that all attendees have a good understanding of the model and will not have time to go over this. We recommend first attending one of our Introduction to CFT workshops, which we run several times a year.
We understand that, due to time differences, it may not be possible for you to attend all of this training live with us. With that in mind, the workshop will be recorded, and you'll have access to the recordings for up to three months after the live broadcast to watch in your own time.
If you're unable to attend for the entire duration, please email hello@compassionatemind.co.uk to let us know, as non-attendees will not receive a certificate unless we are informed of your circumstances.
This workshop does cover some of the basics of the CFT model so this has been advertised as a beginner level workshop, however we do recommend some prior training or experience of CFT as the trainers will not have time to address this in depth.
No, this is for personal practice, and is open to all.
Due to the interactive nature of this workshop, and particularly that it will contain a lot of group work, we feel you'd be missing too much of its value if you cannot participate live. So all delegates will need to attend live. Any delegates that have signed up but don't attend will not receive a CPD certificate.
Please get in touch at hello@compassionatemind.co.uk if you can now longer attend this workshop and need to change your booking.
Yes, this absolutley fine. The workshop will be recorded, and you'll be able to catch up on anything you've missed for up to a month after the live broadcast.
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