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Dr. Zaleski Introduces The OCD Clinic at The Mental Health Collective

Dr. Kristen Zaleski, OCD / The Collective

https://youtu.be/aX0KL3jkhqM?si=GbMHo7Kd-CVFDSrR AN INTERVIEW WITH: DR. KRISTEN ZALESKI, PHD, LCSW | CHIEF CLINICAL OFFICER Interview DR. ZALESKI, WHAT IS THE FOCUS OF THE OCD CLINIC? So, as is typical for The Mental Health Collective, we look at any mental illness through our brain, but our body, the top and the bottom, going down and up. So […]

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The OCD Clinic Virtual Talk

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Please join Sarah Verrelli and The Collective’s clinical experts, Kristen Zaleski, PhD, LCSW, Tony Meiners, PsyD, Sarah Schall, PsyD, and Grace Fraser, ACSW, for The OCD Clinic Virtual Talk. February’s topic is OCD Severity, Complexity, and Care: A Case-Based Review. Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026 – 12 PM PST THE OCD CLINIC VIRTUAL TALK ZOOM LINK 2.3.26 “Over the past few

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Zooming Out, an ACT Cognitive Defusion Technique

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dr. Ashley Brumett, PhD, OCD / The Collective

https://youtu.be/lvmBiFUsNtY AN INTERVIEW WITH: DR. ASHLEY BRUMETT, PhD Interview WHAT IS THE CLINICAL APPROACH WITH ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY (ACT)? With ACT, it’s a little bit different from typical approaches like CBT in the way that it’s not about challenging your problems, analyzing your problems, really delving into the content of your thinking. It’s zooming

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A Comparison of ERP and I-CBT for OCD

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The Mental Health Collective is dedicated to advancing precision in therapeutic intervention, continually assessing the clinical merit of established and emerging treatments for OCD. We understand that achieving symptom reduction hinges upon an individualized care plan. When comparing Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT), the decision is not one of complementarity, but one

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Is AI Negatively Impacting Your OCD?

Dr. Sarah Schall, OCD / The Collective

IS AI NEGATIVELY IMPACTING YOUR OCD? AN INTERVIEW WITH: DR. SARAH SCHALL, PSYD Interview I’ve been asked to speak on a panel at YATA, and it is focused on the usage of AI with young adults. Where my specialty comes in, and what I’d like to speak about, is how AI and OCD can be

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Dr. Ashley Brumett’s Thoughts on ACT

Dr. Ashley Brumett, PhD, OCD / The Collective

Dr. Brumett, please explain Acceptance + Commitment Therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an approach to treatment that aims to change your relationship to your own thoughts. It is based on the idea that we can gain more cognitive flexibility by creating distance between who we are and what we think, so we don’t

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How Common is OCD?

Dr. Sarah Schall, OCD / The Collective

https://youtu.be/CVKlupMCBG8 How COMMON IS OCD? AN INTERVIEW WITH: DR. SARAH SCHALL, PSYD Interview HOW COMMON IS IT FOR A CLIENT TO BE DIAGNOSED WITH OCD? So what we know is that the prevalence rate for OCD is 1 to 2% in the population. So it may not seem like a lot, but it kind of

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The Goal of OCD Treatment

Dr. Sarah Schall, OCD / The Collective

https://youtu.be/qaq2HOBqm6o THE GOAL OF OCD TREATMENT AN INTERVIEW WITH: DR. SARAH SCHALL, PSYD Interview WHAT IS THE GOAL OF OCD TREATMENT? When you look at the initial models of like ERP , you see there was a large focus on exposures, the goal of habituation, basically meaning like we want to do things over and

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How To Support A Loved One Struggling With OCD

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It’s common to hear people joke about someone being “so OCD”, however, a clinical diagnosis of OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, is far from a lighthearted issue. A clinical diagnosis of OCD traps someone into a life of preoccupations and rituals that can cause extreme distress and destroy one’s quality of life. WHAT IS OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE

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