OCD and Anxiety Center of Minnesota

09/10/2025

🚨 New Training Alert! 🚨

OCD requires evidence-based treatment—and Exposure & Response Prevention (ERP) is the gold-standard. If you’re a clinician ready to strengthen your ERP skills (or finally feel confident delivering it), this 6-week intensive is for you.

👉 What you’ll learn:

✔️ How to assess readiness + create exposure hierarchies
✔️ ERP across multiple subtypes (contamination, harm, POCD, ROCD, scrupulosity, postpartum, health-related, and more)
✔️ How to troubleshoot resistance + avoid treatment pitfalls
✔️ Relapse prevention strategies that last

📅 Dates: Fridays, Oct 17 – Nov 21, 2025

⏰ Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM CST

💻 Format: Live virtual (with recordings if you can’t join live)

🎓 CE Credits: 9 hours approved (MN Social Work + Psychology; others pending)

💸 Early Bird Special: Save $50 with code OCDMN50 through Sept 30

🎓 Student/Pre-licensed: $250

👥 Group rate: $325/person for 3+ registrants

This training is hands-on, practical, and built to help you deliver the real work that changes lives.

🔗 Tap the link in bio to register and lock in your spot.

09/04/2025

✨ Minnesota’s first-ever OCD Conference is here! ✨

Join us for a full day of education, connection, and hope — featuring keynote speaker Alison Dotson, expert panels, creative activities, therapy dogs, and more.

📅 October 11, 2025
📍 St. Paul College
🎟 Tickets in bio

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09/03/2025

✨ Minnesota’s first-ever OCD Conference is here! ✨

Join us for a full day of education, connection, and hope — featuring keynote speaker Alison Dotson, expert panels, creative activities, therapy dogs, and more.

📅 October 11, 2025
📍 St. Paul College
🎟 Tickets in bio

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09/02/2025

The first day of school can bring excitement, pride, worry, and fear, often all at once. In times like these, stepping forward is an act of courage. We’re holding children and parents in love and care today.

08/31/2025

We stand with the fight to choose children over guns.

08/24/2025

🎡 We’ll be at the Minnesota State Fair for Mental Health Awareness Day!

📅 Monday, August 25, 2025
⏰ 8am–5pm
📍 Dan Patch Park, near the Grandstand

Come connect with us and nearly 50 other mental health organizations. Grab resources, learn more about OCD and anxiety, and help us spread awareness. 💚
Let’s make mental health part of the conversation at the Fair!

08/22/2025

📣 Heads up! Early bird tickets for the MN OCD Conference are live—grab yours before September 1st 🐦✨

Join us on October 11th, 2025 at St. Paul College for keynotes, panels, breakouts, and a chance to connect with others who “get it.”

Link in bio to register 🎟️

08/21/2025

🌟 New Group Alert! 🌟

Do you have a loved one living with OCD? 💙

You don’t have to navigate it alone.

Join our Friends and Family Virtual Support Group—a safe space to connect, share experiences, and learn from one another.

🗓 Starts September 18, 2025
🕔 Thursdays, 5–6:30 PM (Virtual)
💵 $60 per session
👩‍🏫 Facilitated by Hannah Ose, Recreation Therapist & MSW Clinical Intern at OCDMN

✨ Limited spots available—reserve yours today by emailing hannah.ose@ocdmn.com

08/19/2025

🚨 Minnesota OCD Conference – October 11, 2025 🚨
📍 Saint Paul College | 235 Marshall Avenue, Saint Paul, MN

We’re bringing together clinicians, researchers, advocates, and community members for a full day of education, connection, and hope focused on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

✨ Why Attend?

Learn from leading experts in OCD treatment, research, and advocacy

Gain practical tools for ERP, I-CBT, and other evidence-based therapies

Hear directly from individuals with lived experience of OCD

Explore family and cultural perspectives in OCD care

Network with mental health professionals, advocates, and community partners

Earn 5 CE hours (LP approved, pending approval for LPCs, LPCCs, and LMFTs)

🎤 Speakers include: Alison Dotson, Dr. Christine Conelea, Dr. Alik Widge, Dr. Nakita Natala, Lucy Grantz, LMFT, Erin Venker, MA, LPCC, and many more.

💡 Agenda highlights:

Living with OCD & Building a Community of Hope – Keynote by Alison Dotson

Breakouts for clinicians, families, and individuals living with OCD

Ask the Experts: Psychiatry, Brain Research & OCD

🎟️ Tickets are available now:
👉 Eventbrite Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minnesota-ocd-conference-tickets-1583416584629?aff=oddtdtcreator

🌟 Resource tables, networking, raffle, and opportunities to support the OCDMN Access Fund — helping underserved Minnesotans access specialized OCD treatment.

Let’s build knowledge, community, and hope together. We’d love to see you there! 💙

Join us for a day of learning, sharing, and support at the Minnesota OCD Conference - a safe space to connect and grow together.

08/13/2025

📣 Big News, Minnesota!

We’re hosting the 1st Annual Minnesota OCD Conference — and you’re invited!

🗓 Saturday, October 11, 2025 at St. Paul College.

Whether you’re:
✨ A mental health professional (earn 5 CE credits)
✨ An individual with OCD
✨ A family member or friend
…you’ll leave with tools, connections, and hope.

🎤 What’s happening?
    •    Keynote from Alison Dotson
    •    Breakout sessions for clinicians, individuals, and families/friends
    •    Resource tables from local organizations
    •    Networking & community
    •    Raffle benefiting the OCDMN Access Fund

📍 When & Where
Saturday, October 11, 2025
St. Paul College – City View Hall

🎟 Register now → Link in Bio

Let’s make Minnesota’s OCD community stronger, together. 💙

07/30/2025

Meet Hannah! 💫 She’s an MSW intern at OCDMN with a passion for helping people feel seen, supported, and empowered. With lived experience of OCD and anxiety, Hannah brings warmth, realness, and trauma-informed care to every session. 💚

07/25/2025

🧠 OCD Hope & Recovery Panel — New Location!

📍 Now at Carondelet Event Center in Saint Paul
Join us for an in-person event open to individuals with OCD, their loved ones, and providers.

🗓 Wednesday, August 13
🕖 7–8 PM CDT (Doors open at 6:40 PM)
📍 Carondelet Event Center — 1890 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105
🚗 Free on-site parking
🎟️ RSVP: ocdhopepanel.eventbrite.com

This panel features individuals with lived experience, clinicians, and advocates sharing what OCD recovery really looks like—beyond the Instagram quotes and clinical jargon. There will be space for Q&A and open conversation.

Featured Speakers:
✨ Aneela Idnani – Co-Founder of HabitAware, lived experience with trichotillomania
✨ Alison Dotson – Author of Being Me with OCD, OCD awareness advocate
✨ Bryan Piatt – Former KARE 11 anchor, mental health advocate, pre-licensed therapist
✨ Lucy Grantz, LMFT – OCD specialist and therapist with lived experience

Whether you’re navigating OCD yourself, supporting someone who is, or simply want to learn more, this event offers honesty, community, and hope.