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In-Person
Sheraton Baltimore North Hotel · Towson, MD
- Practice ERP with Dr. Lack
- Get real-case questions answered in real time
- Network with peers between sessions
- 90-day replay access
$499.99
Register In-Person MD 2-Day Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) Training: Evidence-Based Treatment for Anxiety, Panic Disorder, OCD and Agoraphobia
January 21-22, 2027 Towson, MD & Live Stream
2-Day Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) Training
Evidence-Based Treatment for Anxiety, Panic Disorder, OCD and Agoraphobia
Led by Dr. Caleb Lack, PhD
Licensed Psychologist · Researcher
Author of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Etiology, Phenomenology, and Treatment
ERP is evidence-based, supported by decades of research, and widely trusted in treating anxiety, OCD, panic disorders, PTSD and agoraphobia.
Why is it so effective?
Because ERP doesn't rely on coping skills that offer quick relief but accidentally reinforce the avoidance that keeps fear going.
Instead, ERP helps clients lean into fear, face it with strength and learn they can trust themselves to handle hard things...
...all in a way that feels doable, supported and empowering.
ERP is one of the most widely used evidence-based treatments for anxiety and obsessive-compulsive related disorders. This two-day training shows you how to use it from start to finish.
You'll join Dr. Caleb Lack, clinical psychologist and international trainer. He'll show you a step-by-step path with detailed instruction, demonstrations, and practical real-world applications.
No confusion. No overwhelm. Just practical training that will show you how to:
- Build targeted exposure plans that go straight to the core of what maintains fear
- Spot subtle avoidance and safety behaviors in clients
- Use interoceptive, imaginal, and in vivo exposures in a way that feels safe, doable and effective
- And much more!
And if you're worried that exposure might feel "too hard" for your clients or yourself... don't be.
Dr. Lack will show you how to deliver ERP in a way that's safe, manageable and compassionate -- so you'll be guiding clients at a pace that helps them without overwhelming them.
So don't wait. Register now!
2-Day Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) Training
Evidence-Based Treatment for Anxiety, Panic Disorder, OCD and Agoraphobia
Online
Live: January 21-22, 2027 · 8 AM - 4 PM ET
On-Demand available 4-6 weeks later
On-Demand available 4-6 weeks later
- Join the live Q&A with Dr. Lack
- Or watch on-demand at your own pace
- Pause, rewind, replay as much as you need
- 90-day replay access included
$459.99
The Complete 2-Day Curriculum
What you'll learn -- day by day
January 21, 2027
Foundations & Clinical Skills
The framework you need to use ERP across any clinical presentation.
01
Foundations of ERP & Clinical Context
- Overview of anxiety and avoidance cycles
- Habituation, inhibitory learning, and fear extinction
- DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for anxiety and fear-based disorders
- Functional impairment and impact on daily life of clinical anxiety and fear
- Research, risks and limitations of ERP
02
Comprehensive Assessment & Case Conceptualization
- Standardized measures and structured interviews
- Functional analysis to identify triggers, safety behaviors, and avoidance patterns
- Identifying maintaining factors
- Creating a clear case formulation to guide ERP interventions
03
How to Build Effective Exposures
- Selecting exposure types: imaginal, interoceptive, in-vivo and virtual reality
- Designing graded exposure ladders with measurable steps
- Using and interpreting SUDS
- Writing and reviewing response prevention (RP) contracts
- Demonstration of exposure session planning and execution
04
Troubleshooting Common Challenges
- Addressing comorbid presentations
- Mental compulsions
- Detecting safety behaviors and distraction
- Working with core fears rather than superficial triggers
- Risk management: safety planning and crisis protocols
05
Complementary Cognitive Strategies in ERP
- Role of cognitive therapy
- Common cognitive errors
- Non-attachment and "bossing back"
- Non-engagement responses
- Using humor in treatment
06
Special Topics, Ethics, and Relapse Prevention
- Informed consent
- Telehealth ERP delivery
- "Booster" sessions and maintenance strategies post-treatment
- Measuring outcomes and tracking progress
January 22, 2027
Disorder-Specific Applications
Five evidence-based playbooks for anxiety, OCD, panic disorder, PTSD, and related conditions.
07
ERP for Anxiety & Worry-Based Disorders
- Self-focused attention, negative self-imagery, anticipatory anxiety
- Covert safety behaviors
- Exposure targets: social performance, interpersonal risk-taking, spontaneity
- In vivo exposures with behavioral experiments
08
ERP for Panic Disorder & Agoraphobia
- Catastrophic misinterpretation of bodily sensations
- Agoraphobic avoidance, safety items
- Interoceptive targets plus situational avoidance mapping
- In vivo exposures to avoided settings (crowds, driving, stores)
- Response prevention of checking, reassurance seeking
09
ERP for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Misinterpretation of thoughts, inflated responsibility, intolerance of uncertainty
- Identifying covert mental rituals, reassurance loops, subtle avoidance
- Trigger to obsession to feared consequence to compulsion mapping
- Sorting exposures into in vivo, imaginal, and behavioral experiments
10
ERP for Specific Phobias
- Classical conditioning, avoidance, catastrophic beliefs
- Safety behaviors
- Graded in vivo steps, use of variability and unpredictability
- Using in vivo exposures and "behavioral experiments"
11
ERP for PTSD
- Fear structures, trauma reminders, cognitive distortions about responsibility or danger
- Trauma type, triggers, dissociation, avoidance patterns
- Differentiating situational vs. memory-based avoidance
- Imaginal exposure (narrative retelling of trauma with processing)
- In vivo exposure to safe but avoided reminders
- Analyze cognitive, behavioral, and neurobiological mechanisms that inform the development and clinical application of exposure therapy strategies.
- Examine how anxiety and fear disorders are classified and diagnosed in the DSM-5-TR™.
- Identify the foundational principles of exposure and response prevention.
- Analyze the role of inhibitory learning in fear extinction and its implications for exposure therapy outcomes.
- Appraise the evidence base supporting Exposure and Response Prevention for anxiety and obsessive-compulsive related disorders.
- Utilize functional analysis to identify avoidance cycles, triggers, and maintaining factors associated with anxiety and fear-based disorders.
- Restate the clinical rationale for identifying and reducing safety behaviors during exposure-based treatment for anxiety disorders.
- Develop a hierarchy of feared situations for use in ERP.
- Choose appropriate exposure strategies (imaginal, interoceptive, in vivo, or virtual reality) for clients presenting with OCD, anxiety disorders, panic disorders with or without agoraphobia and PTSD.
- Analyze ethical issues, client safety considerations, informed consent, and professional responsibilities when implementing exposure-based interventions.
- Compare advantages and limitations of telehealth versus face-to-face delivery of ERP for anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders.
- Choose cognitive and behavioral strategies that complement ERP to support treatment engagement and response prevention.
ERP is one of the most widely used evidence-based treatments for anxiety and obsessive-compulsive related disorders.
This two-day training shows you how to use it from start to finish.
Ends 12/14/26
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January 21-22, 2027 · Up to 12.5 CE Hours
Sheraton Baltimore North Hotel · Towson, MD
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Your Expert
Meet Dr. Caleb Lack
Caleb W. Lack, PhD
Clinical Psychologist · Professor of Psychology
- 20+ Years teaching thousands of therapists how to use ERP
- Author Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Etiology, Phenomenology, and Treatment
Dr. Caleb W. Lack is a Professor of Psychology and the Counseling MS program coordinator at the University of Central Oklahoma. A licensed clinical psychologist, he specializes in the treatment of children and adults with anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, and posttraumatic stress.
He is regularly consulted for and interviewed by national and international media outlets including The New York Times and The Atlantic. Dr. Lack is also a best-selling author or editor of eight books on topics ranging from psychopathology to critical thinking and pseudoscience.
He has authored more than 75 scientific publications relating to the assessment and treatment of psychological problems including OCD, Tourette's Syndrome, pediatric mood disorders, and posttraumatic stress. An internationally sought-after clinical trainer and consultant, Dr. Lack has conducted workshops for clinicians across North and South America, Europe, and East Asia.
Who This Training Is For
For the clinicians ready to deliver ERP -- not just talk through anxiety
You're a counselor whose anxiety caseload keeps growing -- and you want to do more than hold space.
You're a social worker who wants to add ERP to the cases you're already holding.
You're a psychologist with strong CBT roots who knows exposure is the missing piece.
You're a marriage and family therapist watching a client's panic shrink their world, week by week.
You're an allied health provider who sees fear and avoidance shaping outcomes -- and wants the tools to do something about it.
You're a nurse practitioner managing meds for anxiety and OCD, and you want to refer to therapy with confidence in what comes next.
Target audience: Counselors · Social Workers · Psychologists · Marriage and Family Therapists · Allied Health Providers · Registered Psychotherapists · Nurse Practitioners
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Pick the format that fits your practice
Most Immersive
In-Person
Sheraton Baltimore North Hotel · Towson, MD
- Practice ERP with Dr. Lack
- Get real-case questions answered in real time
- Network with peers between sessions
- 90-day replay access
$499.99
Register In-Person Online
Live: January 21-22, 2027 · 8 AM - 4 PM ET
On-Demand available 4-6 weeks later
On-Demand available 4-6 weeks later
- Join the live Q&A with Dr. Lack
- Or watch on-demand at your own pace
- Pause, rewind, replay as much as you need
- 90-day replay access included
$459.99
FAQs
Yes. Dr. Lack designed this workshop to take a clinician from foundational principles all the way through full delivery. You don't need prior ERP experience -- you need a working CBT framework and a willingness to learn. By the end of day two, you'll have run through the assessment, hierarchy-building, and in-session execution piece for every major disorder ERP treats.
Covered. You'll learn how to assess for and work with comorbid presentations, plus the safety planning and risk management protocols that fit ERP delivery. Real-practice complexity is built into every module -- this isn't a clean-case training.
Yes -- and Dr. Lack walks you through the advantages, limitations, and clinical considerations specific to delivering exposure-based treatment remotely. You'll see what to do well, what to watch for, and where face-to-face still has the edge.
Each day runs 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern. You'll get a 15-minute morning break, a lunch break from 11:50 AM to 1:00 PM, and another 15-minute break after lunch.
Up to 12.5 CE hours on completion of the full 2-day program.