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Stop OCD Compulsions - Learning To Stay With The Urge
With Dr Liz WhiteOCD often creates a powerful urge to do something like check, seek reassurance, analyse, avoid, repeat, confess, or try to get certainty. This six day course will teach you the skill of urge surfing - a practical, evidence-based technique often used with Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to help you stay with uncomfortable urges without automatically acting on them. Across six short lessons and guided practices, you'll learn how to: - Recognise urges earlier - Create space between an obsessional thought/doubt and a compulsion - Observe urges without immediately responding - Learn to tolerate discomfort and uncertainty - Understand that urges rise and fall naturally - Choose actions based on what matters to you rather than what OCD demands Each day builds on the last, helping you develop confidence in your ability to respond differently when OCD shows up. By the end of the course, you'll have a practical skill you can continue using in your everyday life whenever urges to engage in compulsions arise. Please note: This course is designed to complement, not replace, professional mental health support. If you are struggling significantly with OCD or your mental health, please seek support from a qualified healthcare professional.
A practical six day course teaching you how to stay with OCD urges without automatically acting on them.
About this course
OCD often creates a powerful urge to do something like check, seek reassurance, analyse, avoid, repeat, confess, or try to get certainty. This six day course will teach you the skill of urge surfing - a practical, evidence-based technique often used with Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to help you stay with uncomfortable urges without automatically acting on them. Across six short lessons and guided practices, you'll learn how to: - Recognise urges earlier - Create space between an obsessional thought/doubt and a compulsion - Observe urges without immediately responding - Learn to tolerate discomfort and uncertainty - Understand that urges rise and fall naturally - Choose actions based on what matters to you rather than what OCD demands Each day builds on the last, helping you develop confidence in your ability to respond differently when OCD shows up. By the end of the course, you'll have a practical skill you can continue using in your everyday life whenever urges to engage in compulsions arise. Please note: This course is designed to complement, not replace, professional mental health support. If you are struggling significantly with OCD or your mental health, please seek support from a qualified healthcare professional.
Meet your Teacher
Dr Liz White is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist with over 20 years of experience supporting people with anxiety and OCD. She is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Chartered Scientist with the Science Council. Her doctoral research focused on OCD, and she has spent much of her career helping people understand and overcome the patterns that keep OCD going. Drawing on evidence-based approaches including Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Liz is passionate about making psychological skills practical, accessible and easy to apply in everyday life. In this course, she shares one of the key skills used in OCD treatment: learning how to stay with urges without automatically responding to them.