Helping clinicians stay grounded when OCD treatment gets uncomfortable
Supervision, training, and resources for clinicians working with OCD, for the moments that don't have a neat answer.
Trained over 500 Clinicians
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WHERE TREATMENT LIVES
That moment, the one where doubt creeps in, is not a sign that something isn’t right. It's where OCD treatment actually lives.
You know about OCD. You know why reassurance makes it worse. You know the rationale for treatment, and you've sat with clients through exposures that felt uncomfortable for everyone in the room.
What nobody teaches you is what to do when the session stops feeling textbook. When your client gets distressed and everything in you wants to make it easier. When you're not sure if you pushed too hard or not hard enough. When you leave the session still unsettled, replaying what happened, wondering if you got it right. Not in the theory, but in the moment where you have to hold the work steady when everything in the room is pulling you toward making it easier for your client. Grounded in Doubt is built for that moment. The training here is clinical, specific, and grounded in what we need to do to treat OCD, not just understand it.
Where do you find yourself?
01/ Foundations
"I know the basics. But I'm not sure I'm getting this right."
02/ Stuck
"We're doing the work. So why isn't treatment progressing?"
03/ It’s Complicated
"This one's a bit more complex than what I typically see."
FROM COLLEAGUES WHEN ASKED ABOUT A KEY TAKEAWAY FROM THEIR LEARNINGS
“The therapist role in this space and us being able to manage our own discomfort” ~ Carolyn.
“Doing the activity (exposure) is the outcome, not the reduction” (i.e., not waiting for anxiety to reduce). ~ Bec
“I feel more capable of aligning the treatment to the individuals needs” ~ Tracey.
Grounded in doubt. A space for you to:
If you read that list and felt your shoulders drop, you’re in the right place.
Hi, I'm Dr Celin Gelgec.
Clinical Psychologist, AHPRA-registered Board Approved Supervisor, and director of Melbourne Wellbeing Group. I know what it feels like to sit with a client whose OCD is activating every instinct you have to soften the work, and it's really hard.
I have been treating OCD for over 15 years, trained over 500 clinicians across Australia (and still counting), and I supervise practitioners at every level of experience, across all ages and themes of OCD. What I have observed is consistent. We don't struggle with OCD treatment because of a lack of knowledge. We struggle because the treatment model is harder to hold in the room than it is to understand on paper.
OCD creates doubt in our clients. It also creates doubt in us. That dynamic is almost never named in training, and it is the thing that matters most.
15
years, one area of focus.
500+
clinicians trained across Australia
This is for you if
You're a registered mental health clinician ready to treat OCD cases, not just read about them
You want training that assumes clinical competence and builds from there
You have an OCD case in your caseload and want to feel clinically grounded, not just less anxious about it
You're willing to sit with the discomfort that OCD treatment requires, including in your own practice
This is not for you if
You're looking for a reassurance-dispensing course that makes ERP feel safe and manageable
You want a certificate without the clinical substance to back it up
130+ Resources
Not sure where to start?
The OCD Resource List is a free, curated directory of over 130 resources for OCD, organised by age group and theme. Built for clinicians who want reliable, well-organised material to draw on across a range of presentations, without spending hours finding it themselves.
Grounded in Doubt
where OCD treatment clicks.
Grounded in Doubt is a clinician education platform created by Dr Celin Gelgec, Clinical Psychologist, AHPRA board approved supervisor, and Director of Melbourne Wellbeing Group. It is built around one premise: that OCD treatment is not just a set of techniques to be learned, but a clinical process to be held. The work is structured, grounded in the inhibitory learning model, and built for clinicians who take the discomfort of the work seriously.
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