How to Carry Out Exposure and Response Prevention in CBT

What is the Webinar About?

Exposure and Response Prevention remains the gold standard treatment for anxiety disorders and OCD. Yet many clinicians struggle to implement it effectively in practice.

This interactive workshop examines best practice in the design and practical implementation of ERP in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. You'll leave with concrete tools you can apply immediately with your clients.

What You'll Learn

How to build exposure hierarchies that actually work. We'll move beyond textbook theory into the messy reality of clinical work—addressing avoidance patterns, managing dropout risk, and troubleshooting when progress stalls. You'll see realistic case examples and learn how to adapt protocols for different presentations, from contamination fears to harm obsessions.

We'll cover response prevention strategies that stick. Not just the "what" but the "why"—understanding the mechanisms that make ERP effective helps you defend the approach when clients push back or when families question the method.

CPD

A Certificate of Attendance will be available to all attendees at no extra charge covering 1 hours of Skills Based CPD.

Facilitator

Professor Patrick McGhee is a CBT therapist, psychologist and UK National Teaching Fellow. Educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, he has completed CPD programmes at Harvard Business School and Ashridge. In 2017 he was a Visiting Fellow/Scholar at the universities of Cornell, Yale and MIT in the USA. He has taught, researched or practised in psychology and therapy for 30 years. His first post was a Research Fellow in Psychiatry and Psychology at St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London. He is the author of Thinking Psychologically (Palgrave) and co-editor of Accounting for Relationships (Methuen). He is an occasional columnist for the Guardian, the BBC and the Times Higher. He currently works in private practice in Greater Manchester and Lancashire. He has full accreditation from the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists.