OCD Course: CBT & ERP Self-Help
OCD can make you question almost anything. Learn to change the pattern.
Intrusive thoughts, checking, reassurance and mental review can look different from person to person. The repeating OCD cycle is what this course helps you understand. I will guide you through CBT and exposure and response prevention (ERP), then help you choose one workable step to practise in your own life.
By Dr Elaine Ryan, Chartered Psychologist.
Watch this short video to see if this course is suitable for you
You can also preview a real lesson in the curriculum below.
Dr Elaine Ryan
I’m Dr Elaine Ryan, a Chartered Psychologist with more than 20 years’ experience, including work in the NHS. I created MoodSmith to explain OCD and intrusive thoughts clearly, especially the private mental rituals that can be easy to miss. In this course I teach the OCD cycle and ERP step by step, with examples you can apply to your own situation.
Curriculum
- Using Mindfulness for Intrusive Thoughts (4:43)
- Learning to Respond - and not to react to thoughts and images (1:52)
- Distancing Yourself from the thoughts and images (6:02)
- The thoughts are not the problem - it is what you do with them (4:52)
- Helping you focus on the present, and not what is in your head
Perhaps this is the part you recognise
You may check a door, wash again, seek reassurance, or avoid something that matters to you. Or nearly all the work may happen in your head: replaying a memory, analysing a thought, testing a feeling, comparing reactions, or trying to reach complete certainty.
The subject of the doubt can change. The course starts with the pattern that keeps drawing you back into another response. You do not have to reveal the content of an intrusive thought to work through it.