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06/27/2025

Meet Rita, a mother whose life is consumed by health anxiety. Constantly worried something is wrong with her, she searches the internet endlessly and visits doctors far more than necessary—always looking for reassurance that she’s okay. In an effort to avoid anything that might trigger her fears, Rita has put her active lifestyle on hold and struggles to fully enjoy time with her family and friends.

In this video, I help Rita completely shift how she relates to her fears.

This video is a sample from Advanced Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for OCD, presented by Psychotherapy.net, designed for mental health professionals. Find this course by visiting my website and dropping down the menu item Professional Courses.

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06/17/2025

In part two of our sessions with Bob, I continue my work to help him build the courage to face what he fears most. Bob’s anxiety stems from a deep need to avoid getting “stuck” in spiraling thoughts. But what if the path to freedom lies in doing the exact opposite?

In this second session, I call on Bob’s natural resilience. I teach him to actively approach anxiety-provoking situations, using powerful analogies that reframe the fear and energize the fight.

By the end of this session, you’ll see a noticeable shift: Bob begins to take control—not by eliminating anxiety, but by changing his relationship to it.

👉 Watch the transformation unfold.

This video is a sample from Advanced Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for OCD (https://anxieties.com/professional-courses/advanced-cognitive-behavioral-interventions-for-ocd-3-video-series/), presented by Psychotherapy.net, which offers over eight hours of videos containing clinical sessions with real clients, demonstrating interventions, exercises, and concrete strategies to help you work effectively with your clients.

05/23/2025

Severe OCD can feel like an endless battle—especially when previous therapy hasn’t helped. In our first of two sessions, we meet Bob, a personal trainer who’s struggled with OCD since childhood. Now, in what he calls the worst period of his life, Bob is overwhelmed—avoiding triggers, losing sleep, and falling behind in both his personal and professional goals.

Despite months of prior exposure-based therapy, Bob hasn’t found relief. But in just one session, we begin to shift that narrative. In this video, I introduce key concepts for treating anxiety disorders—laying the groundwork for true change.

👉 Watch how it all begins—and discover what makes this method so impactful.

Watch for the second session video in a couple of weeks.

05/09/2025

Therapeutic resistance is a familiar challenge, but ambivalence in clients with OCD presents a uniquely complex barrier to progress. In the video below, I demonstrate how to shift this dynamic using a bold, counterintuitive cognitive-behavioral approach.

In the video is Kathleen, a client gripped by fears of causing harm—either by starting a fire or spreading illness. Caught in a relentless cycle of checking and washing, she struggles with the need for certainty that fuels her compulsions.

My intention here is to show you how to guide clients like Kathleen toward embracing uncertainty and reclaiming control.

This video is a sample from Advanced Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for OCD, presented by Psychotherapy.net, which offers over eight hours of videos containing clinical sessions with real clients, demonstrating interventions, exercises, and concrete strategies to help you work effectively with your clients.

Learn more about the course here: https://anxieties.com/professional-courses/advanced-cognitive-behavioral-interventions-for-ocd-3-video-series/

04/25/2025

If you saw our last video about Mary—an avid traveler who struggles with intense claustrophobia—you might remember how we worked on two transformative therapy sessions. Her fear of environments she feels are inescapable has been panic-inducing for her throughout her life.

I'd like to share with you a follow-up video where Mary and I discuss her experience facing her fear directly and the remarkable results she experiences.

Mary's achievement after just two sessions is exceptional.

"I turned the radio off and kept the windows up, which I never do," she states. "I wanted to get that panicky part of my brain going."

Without medication, Mary has taken significant steps toward control over her panic attacks, improving her quality of life.

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This video is a sample from Accelerated Treatment for Anxiety, Panic & Phobias, presented by Psychotherapy net, which offers over five hours of videos containing clinical sessions with real clients, demonstrating interventions, exercises, and concrete strategies to help you work effectively with your clients.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/vzUYnd3lWK8

Learn more about the course here: https://anxieties.com/professional-courses/accelerated-treatment-for-anxiety-panic-phobias-3-video-series/

In this 6-minute clip, Mary comes for a 2-session treatment for her panic attacks, claustrophobia and fear of flying. Later today she will take a flight. As ...

04/11/2025

I'd like to share this 2.5-minute video clip with you. It’s part of a rare, real-time look at the principles of exposure therapy that can help mental health professionals looking to deepen their understanding of treating claustrophobia, panic, and avoidance behavior. Here you’ll see how you might conduct and then debrief an interoceptive exposure to suffocation.

In the full video, you'll observe me guiding a client, Mary—an avid traveler who struggles with intense claustrophobia—through two transformative therapy sessions. Mary’s fear of suffocation and entrapment extends beyond flying; she avoids elevators, parking structures, and any environment that feels inescapable. When avoidance isn’t an option, she battles severe panic attacks.

Through carefully structured cognitive and behavioral experiments, I help Mary confront these fears head-on. From breathing through a nose plug, to sealing her head inside a pillowcase, and even stepping into a sealed cardboard box, Mary engages in powerful exposure exercises designed to reframe her experience of fear.

Step by step, she moves from “I can’t handle this” to “I want this fear—and I can handle it.”

This video is a sample from Accelerated Treatment for Anxiety, Panic & Phobias, presented by Psychotherapy.net, which offers over five hours of videos containing clinical sessions with real clients, demonstrating interventions, exercises, and concrete strategies to help you work effectively with your clients.

Learn more here: https://anxieties.com/professional-courses/accelerated-treatment-for-anxiety-panic-phobias-3-video-series/

03/28/2025

Panic disorder can be a daunting challenge—not just for those who suffer from it, but for the clinicians who treat it. A key component of the disorder is the fear of future panic attacks, leading to avoidance behaviors that reinforce anxiety. While Exposure Therapy is considered the gold standard treatment, many therapists have never had the opportunity to see it in practice—until now.

In this powerful, real-life demonstration, I work with Renée, a woman who has struggled with severe panic disorder for nearly a decade. Unable to drive, shop, or even take a simple walk alone, her world has become smaller and smaller. But through my provocative approach, Renée learns to do something revolutionary—invite her symptoms in rather than run from them.

With humor, compassion, and guided in vivo exposure therapy, I help Renée change her relationship with her symptoms, showing her that it’s not the panic itself that holds her back—but her fear of it. Witness this transformative moment as Renée gains the courage to break free from her avoidance patterns and reclaim her life.

This video is a sample from Accelerated Treatment for Anxiety, Panic & Phobias, presented by Psychotherapy.net, which offers over five hours of videos containing clinical sessions with real clients, demonstrating interventions, exercises, and concrete strategies to help you work effectively with your clients.

Learn more here: https://anxieties.com/professional-courses/accelerated-treatment-for-anxiety-panic-phobias-3-video-series/

03/14/2025

Accelerated Treatment for Anxiety, Panic & Phobias: 3-Video Series now available!

In this recently released 3-video online course for professionals, join me as I demonstrate techniques for working with clients struggling with challenging cases of anxiety, panic and phobias, and how I work with them to confront their fears and live more fully.

Accelerated Treatment for Anxiety, Panic & Phobias, presented by Psychotherapy.net, offers over five hours of videos containing clinical sessions with real clients, demonstrating interventions, exercises, and concrete strategies to help you work effectively with your clients.

In this video example, we review core concepts with Olivia, a woman with OCD suffering from a longstanding need to compulsively clean house and wash her hands to avoid contamination. With a bit of humor and empathic analogies, I help Olivia "move toward" the anxiety that drives her compulsive behaviors.

Learn more here: https://anxieties.com/professional-courses/accelerated-treatment-for-anxiety-panic-phobias-3-video-series/

10/08/2024

Obsessive-compulsive disorder has 3 basic moves. In my course, OCD & the 6-Moment Game: Strategies & Tactics, I personally guide you through strategies I’ve developed over nearly 40 years to assert control over OCD.

What we cover in the course:
- Winning over OCD moment-by-moment
- Targeting specific areas of the brain, forcing them to adapt to challenges
- Learning to modify thoughts, feelings, and actions
- Character-based scenarios and how they win over OCD
- Adopting new tactics to step forward with less suffering

What the course includes:
- My 4-hour self-help video course, designed specifically for those struggling with OCD
- My downloadable E-Book – a complete written transcript of the course, with added highlights of all the central points and clear step-by-step instructions
- A downloadable Self-Help Workbook, including forms and detailed instructions on how to apply what we've covered for self-managed exposure practices

Stream the online course via any mobile device, or download to a computer for lifetime access.

Take down OCD with safe, less painful tactics in my online course, OCD & the 6-Moment Game: Strategies & Tactics.

Learn more and order by visiting the link below:

https://drwilson.gumroad.com/l/ptDVTQ

10/03/2024

OCD doesn’t have to be a losing battle.

I have collected these strategies and created a new online course to help those with OCD take back their minds and regain control over their daily lives.

OCD & the 6-Moment Game: Strategies & Tactics is a 4-hour video series that offers easy and safe tactics to win over OCD moment-by-moment.

In this course I personally guide you through these steps, showcase character-based scenarios and how they overcome their challenges with OCD, and demonstrate less painful ways of asserting control over the disorder.

What I am offering are the tools to revive motivation, adopt new tactics, and form new habits to take down OCD.

With this course, participants receive an e-book containing the complete video series transcript, as well as a comprehensive workbook to reinforce important topics learned in the course.

Stream the course on any mobile device, or download to a computer for lifetime access.

To learn more about the course and view clips, and to order visit the link below:

OCD & the 6-Moment Game: Strategies & Tactics: https://anxieties.com/online-self-help-courses/ocd-and-the-6-moment-game/

09/24/2024

In my self-paced OCD course, OCD & the 6-Moment Game: Strategies & Tactics, I walk you through winning over OCD moment-by-moment. Here is a sample from the course.

Learn more at anxieties.com and click on Online Self-Help Courses > OCD & the 6-Moment Game.

09/19/2024

OCD can be debilitating and defeating. It interrupts our daily lives, intrudes on our activities, and ensures we are acutely aware of its presence.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

I’m Dr. Reid Wilson, and I’m a clinical psychologist. I've spent my career treating anxiety and OCD, and developing strategies and tactics for people living with OCD.

I have created a self-help online program to guide sufferers of OCD through new strategies—less painful strategies—to assert control over the disorder.

OCD & the 6-Moment Game: Strategies & Tactics is a 4-hour video series that offers easy and safe tactics to win over OCD moment-by-moment. It retrains the brain to adapt to challenges, and modifies thoughts, feelings, and actions.

The course is self-paced and can be streamed via mobile device or downloaded to a computer for lifetime access.

Participants will receive an e-book containing the transcript of the video series, as well as a comprehensive workbook to reinforce important topics.

I want OCD sufferers to get their minds back...to get their lives back.

To learn more about the course and to order, visit the link below:

OCD & the 6-Moment Game: Strategies & Tactics: https://anxieties.com/online-self-help-courses/ocd-and-the-6-moment-game/