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OCD and PTSD Comorbidity Training
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 when you're not sure what you're looking for. This training is built for trauma therapists who are encountering OCD in their work 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 course gives you the diagnostic literacy and treatment landscape you need to recognize OCD when it presents, understand how it interacts with your trauma work, and make a confident referral when the clinical picture calls for it.
Practical Skills
Practical Interventions You'll Learn
In this OCD and PTSD comorbidity training, you will learn how to:
- Recognize OCD when it presents in a trauma caseload, using DSM-5 diagnostic criteria, subtype identification, and standardized assessment tools, including the Y-BOCS, ICQ, and CY-BOCS
- Distinguish OCD from PTSD, GAD, depression, OCPD, phobias, delusions, psychosis, and autism, and identify the symptom overlaps that most commonly lead to misdiagnosis in trauma-impacted clients
- Differentiate static and dynamic presentations of OCD and PTSD, and recognize when symptoms overlap, when they sit side by side, and what each pattern means for clinical decision-making
- Identify the ego-dystonic nature of OCD, including how to recognize and discuss sub-types that are commonly missed or mistaken for something else (harm OCD, scrupulosity, sexual orientation OCD, perinatal OCD, real event or false memory OCD, and others)
- Recognize how OCD and trauma interfere with each other in treatment, including thought-action fusion, imaginal absorption, opening-up-to-danger doubts, compulsions that interrupt processing mid-session, and how exposure work in dynamic presentations can trigger trauma responses
- Describe ERP, I-CBT, and ACT as the three evidence-based treatments for OCD, including the inferential confusion model behind I-CBT (with foundational training from a Co-Founder of OCD Training School and one of the first I-CBT trainers in the world), the difference between habituation, inhibitory learning, and values-based ERP, and the six core ACT processes, so you understand what you are referring to or asking your client about
- Understand the current research on EMDR for OCD, and identify when EMDR may have a role in comorbid OCD and PTSD presentations, including which protocols have been studied and what the evidence base does and does not support
- Recognize family accommodation patterns and the SPACE program, and identify how OCD shapes family dynamics, so treatment planning and referrals account for the full relational context
- Identify parts work and emerging adjunct approaches (including Metacognitive Therapy, Attention Training, and Mindfulness-Based CBT) that can support first-line OCD treatments, and recognize what parts work is and is not when applied to OCD
- Make a confident, informed referral when the clinical picture calls for OCD-specialty care, and know what to look for in an OCD provider
What You Get
What's Waiting for You Inside This Training
OCD diagnostic foundations
Use diagnostic criteria, sub-type identification, and assessment tools to recognize OCD when it shows up in your trauma caseload.
OCD and PTSD differential
Distinguish OCD from PTSD in presentations where the two overlap or co-occur, so you can clearly name what you are seeing.
How OCD interacts with trauma work
Understand the ways OCD can interfere with trauma processing and what that looks like clinically, so stalled treatment makes more sense.
Overview of three OCD treatments
A brief introduction to ERP, ACT, and I-CBT so you understand the treatment landscape and can pursue further training in the modality that fits your work.
Inference-based CBT (I-CBT) introduction
Get an overview of I-CBT from one of the first I-CBT trainers in the world, trained directly by I-CBT Co-founder Dr. Frederick Aardema.
Informed referrals for OCD care
Know what to look for when making a referral, so clients with OCD get connected to the right specialist for evidence-based treatment.
On-demand access
Lifetime access to the recorded course. Watch on your schedule and revisit the material whenever a client presentation calls for it.
Free community membership
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Meet Your Trainer
About Your Trainer
Bronwyn Shroyer
LCSW
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.
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.
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Immediate clinical relevance: leave with a clearer framework for recognizing OCD in your trauma caseload.