Trauma Training

I-CBT, ERP, and OCD and PTSD Comorbidity Training

Trainer: Bronwyn Shroyer, 
On-Demand: Available with lifetime access for asynchronous learning. | This course was recorded on September 20th, 2024.

OCD shows up in trauma caseloads more than most therapists expect. And when it does, it doesn't just sit alongside PTSD - it actively interferes with trauma treatment, blocks processing, and is easy to miss if you're not sure what you're looking for.

This course is built for trauma therapists who are encountering OCD in their caseloads and want a clear clinical framework for what it is, how to distinguish it from PTSD, and what to do about it. Led by Bronwyn Shroyer, one of the first Inference-based CBT trainers in the world and a specialist in comorbid OCD and PTSD, this training covers the full clinical picture: diagnostic criteria, sub-types, differential diagnosis, and four evidence-based treatment approaches including ERP, ACT, I-CBT, and EMDR.

You don't need to become an OCD specialist to take this course. You need enough knowledge to recognize OCD when it's present, understand how it interacts with your trauma work, apply evidence-based interventions when appropriate, and make a confident referral when the clinical picture calls for it. This training gives you all of that.

In this OCD and PTSD treatment training, you'll learn how to:

• Diagnose OCD accurately using diagnostic criteria, sub-type identification, and assessment tools, and differentiate it from PTSD in presentations where the two overlap or co-occur
• Identify when OCD is interfering with trauma treatment, including how to recognize static vs. dynamic presentations and dissociative features that complicate the clinical picture
• Apply Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) as a first-line OCD treatment, including how to introduce and implement it with clients who also carry trauma histories
• Use Inference-based CBT (I-CBT) to address the reasoning distortions that drive OCD, with direct training from one of the first I-CBT trainers in the world
• Integrate ACT approaches to reduce OCD-driven avoidance and help clients clarify values-based action when OCD is pulling them away from meaningful engagement
• Understand the current research on EMDR and OCD and determine when EMDR may be an appropriate option, particularly in comorbid OCD and PTSD presentations
• Use parts work and emerging adjunct treatments alongside first-line OCD interventions to address the internal experience driving obsessional content
• Assess family accommodation patterns and understand how OCD shapes family dynamics, so treatment planning accounts for the full relational context

Bronwyn Shroyer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Trauma Therapist Institute Faculty, and Co-Founder of OCD Training School. Her clinical practice focuses on treating those with OCD, OCD+PTSD, and/or infidelity trauma.

Bronwyn is one of the first Inference-based CBT trainers in the world and is trained by I-CBT Co-founder, Dr. Frederick Aardema. In her work with OCD Training School, Bronwyn provides training on OCD and PTSD, in addition to cultivating a training library for OCD and related disorders with both live and on demand courses for clinicians from specialists in the field. In partnership with Dr. Frederick Aardema, she and her OCD Training School co-founders created the world’s first Self Help Course for using I-CBT with OCD.

Bronwyn uses evidence-based treatments such as Inference-Based CBT (I-CBT), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Written Exposure Therapy (WET), and ego-states work in her practice. Bronwyn is an EMDR Approved Consultant and EMDR Certified Therapist. She also provides I-CBT consultation as well as consultation specific to working with comorbid OCD+PTSD symptom presentations.

Bronwyn believes that clients should be seen as more than the acronym their diagnosis tags them with and that therapists deserve to have more than one evidence-based tool in their toolbox.