Sonia Greaven, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist specializing in OCD and related disorders in high-achieving individuals. She is the owner and clinical director of an OCD-focused group practice in Calabasas, CA. An engaging clinician and speaker, Dr. Greaven is committed to translating evidence-based treatment into practical tools for clinicians through consultation, presentations, and an evidence-based book club. She is a longstanding member of the International OCD Foundation.

Course Goals and Educational Objectives: 
Attendees will be able to:

• Identify common presentations of Relationship OCD and explain how obsessional doubt, reassurance seeking, and mental compulsions maintain symptoms.

• Differentiate Relationship OCD from normative relationship concerns, attachment-related anxiety, and other clinical presentations.

• Apply evidence-based ERP and ACT interventions that target overt and covert compulsions while reducing therapist accommodation.

Course Outline:

1. Opening Intro When does relationship uncertainty become ROCD? 3
2. Understanding ROCD Presentations and core features 12
3. The ROCD Cycle Obsessions, overt/covert compulsions, reassurance 15
4. Differential Diagnosis ROCD vs. normative concerns, attachment anxiety, relationship problems 13
5. Case Illustration Applying the formulation 10
6. ERP Practical ERP strategies and examples 15
7. ACT Flexibility, willingness, values, and uncertainty 8
8. Therapist Accommodation What to stop doing—and what to do instead 4
9. Key Takeaways Three clinical takeaways 0–2
10. Q&A Questions and clinical discussion 10