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Welcome to a world of Education for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

14/08/2025

Tired eyes today! We started at 9:15am and finished at 3:30pm. What did we do? and I headed into to record our podcast - .podcast in a studio! We’ve been releasing episodes consistently for the last 3.5 years (eeeekkk). We’ve recently been on a break, if you haven’t noticed, so we can start to bring you video recordings of our show. We’re pretty excited to release the first lot of episodes to you all within the next fortnight. We covered topics that include how to differentiate between OCD and Health Anxiety, the hard lessons we’ve learned as clinicians along the way, Perinatal OCD, and so much more! Thank you to everyone who has subscribed and has been supporting us on our podcasting journey yet so far! We hope you love the next instalments just as much as we do!

13/08/2025

Training other mental health clinicians on how to work with OCD has always been such a huge inspiration! Why? Because it means more people get help. It also means that the gap between onset of symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment for OCD gets smaller. Currently it takes on average 14 years for this to happen. Yes you read that correctly. So we need to train more, talk more, share more! If you’re keen for 1:1 supervision or training follow the links in my bio.

15/07/2025

Dealing with OCD impacts the whole family. It rarely exists in isolation. You may find yourself accommodating compulsions just to keep the peace and keep the rest of the family moving. You may also fairly be utterly exhausted by it all! Where to start? Our clinic is hosting a free live webinar for parents of kids and teens with OCD! It’s on Thursday July 24th. Register via the QR code pictured. You don’t have to do this alone.

20/06/2025

What a marathon! Just completed a 6 hour presentation on treating OCD for a lovely psychology practice. We discussed all things OCD including differential diagnoses, the evolution of treatment from cognitive models, I-CBT, the inhibitory learning model, and ACT based approaches to ERP, and strategies on how to treat OCD. Keen to learn more? Follow the links in my bio to arrange supervision, customised training for you or your team, or to sign up to my training on the website. It takes on average 11-14 years for people with OCD to get effective treatment. Let’s change that together. 💫

05/05/2025

Today I had the pleasure of recording training content for Deakin University, my old stomping ground! It was fantastic being able to record content on how to work with young people with OCD session by session. It was also incredibly nostalgic being back at Deakin and seeing how much has changed in the last 15 years. This first photo is the new psychology building, which did not exist when I was a student there, while the building in the second photo is where my fellow doctoral students and I had our common room while completing our post-grad studies back in the day. So many late nights, tears, and take out sessions while running stats and writing our theses were had in this building.

24/04/2025

Intensive ERP focused treatment can be a really helpful way to break the loop that is OCD. Our group therapy programs for teens and adults are a great way to help break those loops. The groups complement one on one work and provide a safe setting where participants can learn from each other to tackle OCD. The bonus is that attending groups don’t impact referrals for one on one work. Group therapy is accessed under a separate referral, allowing you to access an extra 10 sessions if you’re eligible for Medicare. Use the QR codes in these images to register. Group starts in the first full week of May so get in quick to ensure your spot.

24/03/2025

What’s on your ERP bingo card? Here are some ideas you could think about if you’re in treatment for Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). Like anything, discuss it with your treating clinician, plan it out and see where it takes you. Remembering that consistency and variety is key when it comes to ERP. 💫

19/03/2025

Tonight we hosted the first event of our CPD series! We had such a lovely turn out with some colleagues within the psychology field as well as within the medical field. Our minds are full of rich discussion, our bellies are full with yummy food delivered to us from , and our hearts are full of gratitude for everyone who came along and made tonight an enriched experience. We’re looking forward to the next one which is on June 18th. Head to our website to register and for more info.

17/03/2025

“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides” - Tony Schwartz, founder and CEO of The Energy Project.

People with OCD often struggle with black-and-white thinking and the need for certainty. Tony Schwartz’s idea of embracing paradox, openness, and curiosity can be helpful as it helps us articulate why we do what we do when it comes to ERP — but only if applied without falling into the reassurance trap!

Instead of seeking answers, try the following:

❌ “I don’t need to be 100% certain because I checked once.” (Reassurance)
✅ “I’d like certainty, but I can cope without it.” (Openness)

❌ “This discomfort will pass, so I don’t need to worry.” (Reassurance)
✅ “This discomfort is here. I notice it in my body. I am choosing to lean into it.” (Tolerance)

❌ “I can have intrusive thoughts and still be a good person.” (Reassurance)
✅ “Maybe this thought means something, maybe it doesn’t.” (Acceptance of uncertainty)

The goal isn’t to resolve doubt but to make peace with it. Freedom comes from learning to coexist with uncertainty, not from eliminating it.

12/03/2025

Celebrating international women’s day with our partnership with 💫 The volunteer work that we do for this program is so uplifting and rewarding! If you’re keen to be a role model please head over to the page to register! The girls in the program love hearing from people from all walks of life and experiences.

28/02/2025

And that’s a wrap on the leadership program with Inspiring Girls Australia! The girls made some wonderful reflections and one of the biggest takeaways today was HOPE.

A hope that they don’t silence themselves because someone else is trying to silence them.

A hope that they can keep giving themselves permission to dream.

Hope that they give themselves permission to change their minds.

Hope that they keep exploring and being brave enough to take risks, challenges, experiences, and to chase their desires with confidence.

What a pleasure and privilege it is to be working alongside amazing women to help inspire our next generation and break those cycles. 💫

14/02/2025

I absolutely love presenting with my friend and colleague 🥰. Here we are talking all things leadership for .secondary.college. The young students were so engaged and shared some valuable insights into what it takes to become a leader. The Dream Gap starts as young as 6 years old so these discussions are vital. Girls as young as six stop dreaming about career and aspirations whereas boys keep thriving. These conversations beed to keep changing and growing to enable young women to thrive.

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685 Burke Road
Camberwell, VIC
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https://www.drcelingelgec.com.au/

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