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Recovery is strongest when people don't have to choose between their faith and evidence-based treatment. This interdisciplinary keynote brings together individuals with lived experience, faith leaders, and clinicians from diverse backgrounds to explore how OCD and faith intersect, how different traditions approach uncertainty, and how spirituality can support recovery alongside evidence-based care. Through honest conversation and diverse perspectives, this session sets the stage for a day centered on hope, collaboration, and meaningful living.

Designed for clinicians building confidence in treating religious scrupulosity, this session explores practical treatment strategies for addressing mental rituals, repetitive prayer, reassurance-seeking, and avoidance. Panelists will discuss common treatment challenges, share case examples, and offer practical guidance for collaborating with faith leaders while providing evidence-based OCD treatment.

Join leading experts in OCD treatment as they explore complex scrupulosity presentations, difficult clinical decisions, and advanced treatment strategies. Through challenging case examples and interdisciplinary discussion, panelists will examine cultural humility, diverse belief systems, and practical approaches for providing nuanced, evidence-based care.

This informative panel will introduce faith leaders to various subtypes of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, including religious scrupulosity and taboo themes. Faith leaders of all traditions will gain valuable insight into addressing accommodation and reassurance, as well as best practices for supporting their congregation. Our experts will also provide skills for utilizing faith as a value for motivation in treatment. Don't miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding and enhance your ability to serve your community!

Recovery isn't about eliminating uncertainty. It's about learning to move toward what matters anyway. Through lived experience and practical wisdom, this conversation explores separating faith from OCD, navigating treatment, and building a meaningful life grounded in values rather than fear.

Supporting someone with OCD can feel overwhelming, especially when faith is involved. This session helps families better understand OCD, reduce accommodation, navigate reassurance, collaborate with treatment providers, and care for themselves while supporting someone they love.

Parenting a child with OCD often requires balancing compassion with courage. This conversation explores recognizing scrupulosity in children, reducing accommodation, encouraging brave behavior, and creating homes where both faith and recovery can flourish.

Research on faith, spirituality, and OCD continues to expand, offering new insights into assessment, treatment, and interdisciplinary collaboration. This panel highlights emerging research, innovative clinical approaches, and future directions in the field. Speakers will discuss their own research, current evidence, gaps in the literature, and practical implications for clinicians, faith leaders, researchers, and individuals with lived experience.

Effective treatment of scrupulosity often requires collaboration across clinical and faith communities. This interdisciplinary panel brings together clinicians, clergy, and individuals with lived experience to explore best practices for supporting those navigating religious and moral OCD. Participants will discuss the unique roles of faith leaders and mental health professionals, common challenges in collaborative care, and practical strategies for providing evidence-based, values-consistent support while respecting diverse religious traditions.

Moral scrupulosity extends beyond religious concerns and can become centered on questions of right and wrong, responsibility, guilt, and personal integrity. This panel will examine the clinical presentation of moral scrupulosity, how it differs from healthy moral concern, and evidence-based approaches to treatment. Speakers will discuss common compulsions, treatment considerations, and ways to help individuals pursue their values without reinforcing OCD.

Taboo intrusive thoughts involving sexuality, violence, blasphemy, or harm can create profound distress, particularly within faith communities. This panel explores how faith leaders and clinicians can respond with compassion while avoiding reassurance and other unhelpful accommodations. Participants will gain practical tools for fostering safe conversations, reducing stigma, and supporting recovery within diverse faith traditions.

Grief, loss, and challenging religious experiences can complicate OCD symptoms, treatment, and recovery in unique ways. This panel explores how bereavement, major life transitions, religious trauma, spiritual abuse, adverse religious experiences, and other significant losses may intensify uncertainty, guilt, responsibility, shame, and intrusive thoughts. Speakers will discuss evidence-based treatment considerations, lived experience, and compassionate approaches to supporting healing, meaning making, and recovery through life's most challenging seasons.

Many individuals with OCD serve as caregivers, parents, helping professionals, ministry leaders, or advocates while managing their own recovery. This panel explores the unique challenges of supporting others without becoming overwhelmed by OCD-driven responsibility, perfectionism, or self-sacrifice. Speakers will discuss practical strategies for maintaining boundaries, embracing self-compassion, and continuing to live in alignment with one's values while caring for others.

Individuals with OCD encounter unique spiritual and religious questions across outpatient, intensive outpatient, partial hospitalization, residential, and inpatient settings. This interdisciplinary panel explores how faith can be thoughtfully integrated throughout the continuum of care while maintaining evidence-based treatment. Speakers will discuss collaboration among providers, transitions between levels of care, and strategies for supporting recovery without reinforcing OCD.

Treating religious scrupulosity often requires thoughtful consideration of each individual's presentation, strengths, and treatment needs. This interdisciplinary session explores a range of evidence-based approaches, including Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), treatment considerations for co-occurring conditions, and collaborative models of care. Through case examples and discussion, panelists will examine how different treatment modalities can support individuals with complex presentations while remaining grounded in current clinical evidence.

Recovery from scrupulosity often involves learning to engage in spiritual practices with greater flexibility rather than certainty or perfection. This panel explores how prayer, worship, meditation, sacred texts, and other spiritual disciplines can become opportunities to embrace uncertainty instead of rituals driven by OCD. Speakers will discuss practical ways to cultivate authentic faith while resisting compulsive patterns.

Recovery is strengthened through connection, advocacy, and communities that reduce isolation. This panel brings together advocates, clinicians, faith leaders, and individuals with lived experience to discuss the power of sharing stories, increasing awareness, and creating supportive environments for people navigating OCD. Participants will explore how hope, education, and community engagement can foster lasting recovery.

Experiences of mental health and OCD are shaped by culture, faith, and community. This interdisciplinary panel explores how different cultural and religious traditions understand psychological distress, healing, and treatment while highlighting shared opportunities for compassionate care. Speakers will discuss culturally responsive approaches that honor diverse beliefs while remaining grounded in evidence-based practice.

Acceptance and self-compassion are essential components of long-term recovery from OCD. This panel explores how individuals can learn to respond to intrusive thoughts, uncertainty, and setbacks with greater kindness rather than self-criticism or avoidance. Drawing from clinical practice, lived experience, and values-based approaches, speakers will discuss practical strategies for building resilience while continuing to move toward a meaningful life.

A welcoming space to connect with others who share similar experiences, interests, traditions, or backgrounds.

A welcoming space to connect with others who share similar experiences, interests, traditions, or backgrounds.

A welcoming space to connect with others who share similar experiences, interests, traditions, or backgrounds.

A welcoming space to connect with others who share similar experiences, interests, traditions, or backgrounds.

A welcoming space to connect with others who share similar experiences, interests, traditions, or backgrounds.

A welcoming space to connect with others who share similar experiences, interests, traditions, or backgrounds.

A welcoming space to connect with others who share similar experiences, interests, traditions, or backgrounds.

A welcoming space to connect with others who share similar experiences, interests, traditions, or backgrounds.

A welcoming space to connect with others who share similar experiences, interests, traditions, or backgrounds.

A welcoming space to connect with others who share similar experiences, interests, traditions, or backgrounds.

A welcoming space to connect with others who share similar experiences, interests, traditions, or backgrounds.

A welcoming space to connect with others who share similar experiences, interests, traditions, or backgrounds.

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