Accredited CE & CME · 6 credit hours

Treating OCD, from the inside.

You learn this by living it. You go through the complete patient program yourself, reading what your patient or client reads and doing what they do, across exposure and response prevention, inference-based CBT, acceptance and commitment therapy, and OCD medication strategy.

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6 CE & CME hours $120 flat tuition Self-paced, start anytime Listen like an audiobook

Who it's for

For OCD specialists, and for clinicians newer to it.

If you specialize in OCD

A current program to evaluate end to end, experienced the way your patient experiences it.

If you're newer to OCD

You meet each model in the order a patient does, built up as you go. No prior training in these models is assumed.

Two starting points, the same finish. You've run the patient's program yourself.

Who earns credit

Six accredited hours in the full treatment of OCD.

Continuing education for the behavioral-health and medical license types below, whether OCD is your specialty or part of a broader caseload. One course, one tuition.

Psychologists

CE credit provided through the American Psychological Association.

Social workers

For LCSW, LMSW, and equivalent clinical social-work licensure.

Mental health counselors

For LMHC, LPC, LCPC, and equivalent counseling licensure.

Marriage & family therapists

For LMFT and equivalent licensure.

Physicians

Continuing medical education (CME) for physicians who treat OCD, through Joint Accreditation.

Nurses & nurse practitioners

Nursing continuing education for RNs and psychiatric NPs.

This activity is provided by CE Learning Systems. In support of improving patient care, CE Learning Systems is jointly accredited by the ACCME, the ACPE, and the ANCC to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Continuing education credit for psychologists is provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology; the APA office maintains responsibility for the content. The activity is also recognized by New York State licensing boards for social work, mental health counseling, and marriage and family therapy. Whether your board accepts the credit can depend on your license and state. The full approval statements appear under CE Approvals on the registration page.

What you're paying for

The CE is the credential. The dashboard is $10 a month.

This $120 course is the accredited CE and CME credential, with the exam, the certificate, and your six CE hours. The clinician dashboard is a separate $10 a month, the same price for every clinician. Federal anti-kickback rules require us to charge fair market value, so the price never depends on how many patients you refer.

Taking it does two things at once. You learn the treatment of OCD from the inside, brushing up or filling gaps across ERP, I-CBT, ACT, and medication. And you come away fluent in Conicia itself, the tool you will be using with patients.

Built to ease the work between sessions and support the treatment you deliver.

You can use Conicia whether or not you take the course, but the course is a great way to get deeply familiar while earning CE.

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How it works

From registration to certificate.

1
Register on CE-Go

Enroll and pay on CE-Go's secure portal. One flat tuition of $120 covers all six hours.

2
Work through the program

Move through the full Conicia program: psychoeducation, structured exercises, in-the-moment tools, audio, and video lessons.

3
Pass the exam and evaluation

An exam and a short course evaluation confirm completion, back on CE-Go.

4
Download your certificate

Your CE or CME certificate is available to download as soon as you finish, for your records and license renewal.

Learning objectives

What you'll be able to do.

1

Identify the shared doubt-compulsion loop underlying common and covert OCD presentations, including mental rituals and reassurance-seeking.

2

Describe the inhibitory-learning model of exposure and response prevention and apply it to building a graded exposure plan.

3

Explain how inference-based CBT locates the start of the obsessional sequence in a faulty inference, and list the reasoning devices OCD uses to make doubt feel real.

4

Describe how acceptance and commitment therapy reframes the relationship between intrusive thoughts, feelings, and valued action in OCD.

5

Summarize first-line medication strategy for OCD, including SSRI dose targets, adequate trial duration, and augmentation options.

6

Distinguish a lapse from a relapse and outline a relapse-prevention plan for patients and clients completing structured self-help.

What's covered

Four models, taught the way they're practiced.

The course covers the treatment of OCD from several evidence-based angles, with each approach taught through the patient program rather than in the abstract.

ERP

Exposure and response prevention

Taught through an inhibitory-learning lens: how to build a graded plan, drop safety behaviors, and design exposures that update expectation rather than chase a fear rating to zero.

I-CBT

Inference-based CBT

Inference-based CBT, or I-CBT: where an obsession actually begins, the reasoning tricks that make an imagined doubt feel real, and how to walk a person back to what their own senses tell them.

ACT

Acceptance and commitment therapy

Reframing the relationship between intrusive thoughts, feelings, and action, so the work is anchored to values rather than to relief.

Medication

The pharmacotherapy picture, explained properly

How OCD medication strategy differs from standard antidepressant dosing, including SSRI dose targets, trial length, and augmentation, whether you prescribe or just need to field what patients ask. It also covers a lesser-known technique, titrating a liquid formulation in tiny steps so that starting a medication can itself become a graded exposure, with the goal of easing the fear for patients who dread it.

Why experiential

You remember the treatment you've worked through yourself. This course has you do it, not just read about it.

01

You read what your patient reads

The same psychoeducation, in the same order, with a clinician orientation framing each part.

02

You complete the same exercises

The ladders, the logs, the values work, done as the patient does them, so you know exactly what you're guiding.

03

You finish able to guide it

The model is no longer a set of slides you half-remember. It's a program you've moved through yourself.

Weston Scott Fisher, MD

Your presenter

Weston Scott Fisher, MD

Psychiatrist specializing in OCD · Medical Director, Anxiety Relief Clinic

He has spent more than a decade treating OCD. He spent more than seven years on faculty at UCSF, where he co-directed the Anxiety and OCD clinic, and has treated hundreds of people with the disorder. This course is that clinical work, written down and built so you can experience it the way a patient does.

"OCD's patterns are predictable. That's the good news. Once you can see them, you have something to work with."

The brain-science and medication piece, authored by a physician

How OCD works in the brain, and how medication fits, usually get a single slide in OCD trainings. Because a psychiatrist wrote this one, those parts are taught in plain language and in real depth, the way the therapy is.

How OCD works in the brain
In plain language, so the mechanism is clear before the methods.
How medication fits
Why SSRIs are first-line, and why dosing for OCD often differs from depression.
When first-line is not enough
Augmentation and next-line options, framed for the conversation your patient has with their prescriber.

Grounded in the evidence

Claims are generally anchored to the published literature, not invented.

The course content rests on the peer-reviewed evidence base for OCD treatment, including recent randomized trials and meta-analyses across ERP, I-CBT, ACT, and pharmacotherapy. A selection of the references:

  1. Reid JE, et al. Cognitive behavioural therapy with exposure and response prevention in the treatment of OCD: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 2021.
  2. Aardema F, et al. Evaluation of inference-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for OCD: a multicenter randomized controlled trial. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 2022.
  3. Wolf N, et al. Inference-based CBT versus CBT for OCD: a multisite randomized controlled non-inferiority trial. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 2024.
  4. Waks S, Moses K, Wootton BM. Acceptability of internet-delivered CBT for adults with symptoms of OCD: a meta-analysis. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2024.
  5. Bürkle JJ, Schmidt S, Fendel JC. Mindfulness- and acceptance-based programmes for OCD: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2025.
  6. Craske MG, et al. Maximizing exposure therapy: an inhibitory learning approach. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2014.
  7. Hirschtritt ME, Bloch MH, Mathews CA. Obsessive-compulsive disorder: advances in diagnosis and treatment. JAMA, 2017.
  8. Hezel DM, Simpson HB. Exposure and response prevention for OCD: a review and new directions. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2019.

Questions

What clinicians ask before registering.

Is this too basic, or too advanced, for me?
Built for both. If you specialize in OCD, it's a complete, current program to evaluate end to end, the way your patient experiences it. If you're newer to OCD, each model is built up in the order a patient meets it, with no prior training in these models assumed. Both finish better equipped.
How do I actually earn the credit?
Register and pay on CE-Go, work through the full Conicia program, then complete the exam and a short evaluation on CE-Go. Your certificate is available to download as soon as you finish.
Will it count for my license?
The course is accredited for psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, physicians, and nurses. Whether your board accepts it can depend on your license and state. The CE Approvals section on the registration page lists every approval in detail.
How long does it take?
It is a self-paced, 6-hour course. You can move through it in one sitting or over several, on your own schedule.
Can I listen to it instead of reading?
Mostly, yes. The program's lessons are voiced, so you can put the course in your pocket and move through much of it like an audiobook, on a walk or a commute. You complete the exam and the short evaluation when you're back at a screen.
Where does the course live?
Registration, the exam, and your certificate are on CE-Go. The program content itself runs in the Conicia app, which CE-Go links you to as part of the course.
Do I need to be a Conicia user already?
No. Registering for the course gives you everything you need. The program is the course.
Do I have to pay to use Conicia?
Yes. The clinician dashboard is $10 a month, the same for every clinician regardless of how many patients they refer. Federal anti-kickback rules require fair-market pricing. The $120 is separate, for the accredited CE and CME credential, the exam, certificate, and six credit hours. You can use the dashboard with your patients with or without taking the course.
What does it cost?
The CE credential is $120 for all six hours, one flat tuition, with no add-on fees for the certificate. The Conicia dashboard is a separate $10 a month.

Six CE and CME hours. One flat tuition. Self-paced.

Register on CE-Go, work through the program at your own pace, and finish better equipped, whether you specialize in OCD or you're newer to it.

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