CBT for OCD in children and young people: Making modifications to cognitive and behavioural therapy to enhance accessibility and efficacy of intervention: ZOOM WORKSHOP PRESENTATION

Dr Alice Farrington qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 2000, and has a wealth of clinical experience with children and adolescents and their families with a range of mental health problems in NHS CAMHS services. Alice was the Clinical Lead for services for children and young people presenting with Anxiety disorders, OCD and Tic disorders in Berkshire CAMHS for five years before she joined the Oxford Health Specialist Psychological Intervention Centre (OHSPIC) in February 2025. Alice has particular expertise in working with neurodivergent families, and is passionate about providing person-centred, evidence based and compassionate care.

Alongside her role at OHSPIC, Alice also works at the Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and Research, and provides teaching and supervision on the OCTC Postgraduate certificate in Enhanced CBT for Children and Adolescents. Alice is an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist with the BABCP and she provides specialist CBT supervision to qualified clinical psychologists across the country.

Sasha Walters trained as a Clinical Psychologist at the University of Bath between 2012 and 2015 and has worked in specialist anxiety and depression clinics for the majority of her qualified career. Sasha is a BABCP accredited practitioner and specialises in offering evidence-based practice, namely Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, to work with young people and adults experiencing anxiety disorders, OCD and related disorders.

She joined OHSPIC after working for the National and Specialist CAMHS OCD, BDD & Related Disorders clinic at the Maudsley Hospital.

Sasha is passionate about the delivery of effective, evidence-based therapy and extends this passion beyond her own practice by providing supervision and teaching across the country to a wide range of professionals in the NHS, and in local authorities.

Prior to clinical training, Sasha completed a PhD in developmental psychopathology and remains committed to research completing her own work in the area of emetophobia and supervising and collaborating on projects in the areas of paediatric OCD and anxiety.

If you cancel more than 14 days prior to your booked event, we will refund your fee minus a charge of 15% to cover our administration costs. We regret that cancellations 14 days or less before the booked event cannot be refunded or changed/transferred.

If you wish to change/transfer your booking after confirmation we will do our best to accommodate you if you notify us 14 days prior to your booked event, and if there is space to do so. However there will be an administration charge of £15 per change/transfer.

Workshops often contain clinical material. This is always anonymised as far as possible but delegates are none the less reminded to respect confidentiality.

All that is discussed in your therapy sessions will be treated as confidential, with the following exceptions.
We are required to seek supervision by our professional body (The British Psychological Society or equivalent) as a means of ensuring good practice. We will usually inform your referrer of your progress, but the details that we disclose will be discussed with you. We do have a statutory obligation to break confidentiality under rare circumstances, namely, if we believe that a client is of danger to themselves or to others (under the Mental Health Act, 2001) or if we believe that a child is at actual risk of physical or sexual abuse (The Children Act, Section 47, 1989).

If we felt that it would be helpful to request additional medical, social or legal information, we could only do this with your consent. Similarly, should another medical, social or legal professional request information from us, we would not release this without your consent.

OCTC makes every effort to ensure that this programme is delivered as advertised. However, should a presenter have to cancel, we will endeavour to find another suitable presenter. We will inform attendees as soon as is reasonably practical and, if requested, will offer a refund. In the rare event that we are unable to substitute a presenter, we may cancel a workshop and refund payments already made by attendees. OCTC will not refund travel and accommodation costs that attendees may incur.
All the workshops in this programme are carried out by highly experienced therapists and trainers. The individual presenter is responsible for the content of the workshop and any views expressed do not necessarily represent those of OCTC.
Although highly informative, none of the open workshops or workshop series confer a formal qualification or assurance of competence in CBT (or a specialist area of CBT) since we are unable to assess attendee competency within the training event. However, credit and award-bearing courses that lead to formal qualifications are offered by OCTC in conjunction with the University of Oxford. More about these courses is available on our website www.octc.uk

Before booking a place on a workshop, please ensure that it is pitched at the appropriate level of competence for you. The guide to levels is as follows:

Basic

Basic workshops are for people from a variety of backgrounds, who have at least one year’s clinical experience. Cognitive behavioural knowledge is not necessary for attendance at these workshops, though in practice, a number of attendees will have some skills in the area, and are refreshing/updating their knowledge.

Intermediate

Intermediate workshops are directed towards people who already have knowledge of CBT, and experience in using cognitive formulations and treatment methods – for instance, they are able to identify and test automatic thoughts, and design behavioural experiments. Most participants will be using CBT as part of their clinical practice, and may still be acquiring new CBT skills.

Advanced

Advanced courses are directed towards those professionals who use CBT routinely as part of their clinical practice. They have probably undertaken a significant number of training courses and/or workshops, and use a broad range of cognitive behavioural strategies to work with a range of presentations at varying levels of complexity.

Bookings can only be considered confirmed after we have received your online registration or application form and payment (or invoicing details, including an official purchase order document).

The registration closing date for each workshop is shown on the workshop description page.  Please note that no applications received after this deadline will be permitted.

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The cost of the workshops includes hot drinks on arrival, mid-morning and mid-afternoon, but not usually lunch unless stated. However, for workshops that do include lunch, if you have any special dietary requirements please let us know at the time of application.

We welcome applications from diverse backgrounds. If you have any particular needs, please contact us
prior to booking.