Webinar: OCD, Relationships, and Sex

Recorded Webinar | Adult

OCD Fundamentals

OCD creates complex challenges in relationships. From how and when to disclose, to interference with sexual intimacy. However, teaching the couple how to respond to the effects of OCD in the relationship can help reduce the impact of OCD and prevent future distress. This talk will discuss how disclosing is a crucial task in a relationship, which is too often approached as shameful apologies motivated by a compulsive need to unburden oneself. This talk will also discuss how OCD interferes with sexual intimacy in numerous ways and will show how our partners are able to help with this fundamental aspect of the relationship.

Faculty: Mike Heady, LCPC; Kim Rockwell-Evans, PhD

Learning Objective 1: Attendees will be able to identify common relationship patterns that impact OCD symptoms and the partner’s reaction to symptoms.

Learning Objective 2: Attendees will identify how to conduct a functional analysis that informs the course of treatment.

Learning Objective 3: Attendees will assess at least four variables to consider when helping clients determine what and when to disclose OCD.