Certificate in Anxiety & OCD Diagnosis & Treatment
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Elevate your clinical expertise with our Certificate in Anxiety & OCD Diagnosis & Treatment (30.25 CEs), a rigorous and comprehensive program that meets training requirements needed to confer the ANX-PT™ post nominal certification credential through out independent certification body, Mind Works Continuing Education, LLC.
Designed for therapists committed to mastering anxiety and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, this training guides you through cutting-edge diagnostic skills, evidence-based treatment protocols, and hands-on strategies that deliver measurable results. You’ll become well-versed in exposure and response prevention (ERP), body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs), and interventions for panic, phobia, and worry. You’ll also sharpen your ability to distinguish and assess overlapping and comorbid disorders, build treatment plans customized to clients’ neural, behavioral, and environmental profiles, and apply therapeutic techniques that go beyond symptom relief, helping clients break destructive cycles of anxiety and regain control over their lives. With this certificate and credential, you’ll have the confidence, clinical depth, and recognized qualification to provide sophisticated, ethical, and highly effective care.
Program Courses
To be a successful, competent, in-demand mental health clinician, you absolutely need access to premium, specialized clinical training (with the ability to go back for refreshers), as well as opportunities for ongoing peer consultation. That’s exactly what this program delivers, plus:
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Clinical Strategies For Treating Clients With Distressing Obsessive Thoughts
- Diagnosis & Treatment of Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors
5.75 CEs
- ERP Therapy for OCD: Step-By-Step
11 CEs
- ERP Therapy for OCD: Step-By-Step
11 CEs
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
- Worry, Panic, & Phobia: Evidence-Based Approaches to Alleviate Anxiety
Program Instructors
Jennifer Abel, PhD
Amanda Petrik-Gardner, LCPC
Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, JD, MS, MA
Want the Credential + Digital Badge?
Your enrollment includes the full Certificate Program curriculum through Online CE Credits—complete the training, quizzes, and evaluation to earn your CE certificates and your Program Certificate of Completion.
If you’d like to pursue the professional certification credential (including the post-nominal designation and a digital badge), you can do so through Mind Works Continuing Education, LLC (MWCE)—our independent certification body backed by a 30+ member advisory board.
No additional fee: If you complete the full OCEC program curriculum, you can earn certification through MWCE at no extra cost.
You can decide later—this is optional and can be started anytime.
ATTENTION: Certificate Programs are not included in the Essentials CE Plan, so please enroll and pay here. Legacy “Everything Plan” members already have access and should not pay.
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Included in this certificate program (30.25 CEs), you'll...
Our benefits
Included in this certificate program (30.25 CEs), you’ll…
- RBe eligible to receive the ANX-PT™ post-nominal certification credential and digital badge through Mind Works Continuing Education, LLC to include on your resume, website, and directory profiles.
- RLearn about all clinical facets of anxiety, including its neural mechanisms and how it presents in specific Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Related Disorders outlined in the DSM-5 TR.
- RBuild a solid clinical diagnostic approach that easily identifies symptoms and comorbid disorders, provides differential diagnoses, and nails the correct primary disorder to inform treatment.
- RLearn how and why some clients become “stuck” in persistent patterns of obsessive thinking, maladaptive coping rituals, worry, and negative intrusive thoughts, as well as how to break these patterns safely.
- RLearn the “gold standard” evidence-based treatment for OCD and how to diagnose and treat destructive BFRB’s like skin picking and hair pulling, and help clients crush worry and panic with therapy techniques shown to be up to twice as effective as anxiolytics alone.
- RLearn effective cognitive and behavioral techniques you can use to assist clients in replacing unhealthy and destructive habits. Help clients create behavioral feedback loops that overcome setbacks and incentivize long-term change.
- RGet free admission to up to four, 1-hour consultation groups to troubleshoot your most difficult clinical cases.
Why Choose Us?
Why Choose Our Certificate in Anxiety Diagnosis & Treatment?
Anxiety is part of the human experience, and in normal doses it can be adaptive – a temporarily elevated state of mind (and body) to help us adequately address stressful situations toward safe resolution. But, when intense, excessive, and persistent worry and fear occur with everyday situations and begin to interfere with daily living, anxiety becomes maladaptive – a marker of mental disease. It is comorbid with many other psychological conditions (e.g. depression, trauma, eating disorders), and it is arguably the most common presenting concern in the world of outpatient therapy today. Anxiety has become a first world epidemic and a hallmark of our modern industrial complex. Because it is such a common thread that runs through the collective center of modern mental illness, it is critical that all mental health clinicians obtain comprehensive and in-depth training in its diagnosis and treatment.
Learn from established clinical experts. Meet the needed training requirements to become eligible to earn your ANX-PT™ post nominal certification credential through Mind Works Continuing Education, LLC. Gain the confidence and critical skills necessary to help clients navigate the most common and often the most difficult-to-treat clinical concerns they’ll face in life.
This comprehensive anxiety and OCD certificate program provides you with practical knowledge of the neural mechanisms and various environmental drivers of anxious distress you can easily understand and apply in all phases of therapy. This clinical training program is skills-intensive and contains everything you need to incorporate the newest and most effective evidence-based anxiety treatments in use today by top specialists in the field. You can complete the training requirements in about 30 self-paced hours. If you opt to submit your training requirements to receive your post nominal credential, you will not be required to take additional courses or pay more money just to keep your ANX-PT™ post nominal certification credential “current.” We believe that when you’ve gained these practical diagnosis and treatment skills, you don’t lose them after one year, or five years. Just as you don’t have to earn your degree over and over, practical therapy skills and clinical competence are improved over time, not lost, so long as you continue to practice these skills and seek education and consultation when appropriate. If you find that you’re getting a little rusty, or feeling a little tentative, we welcome you to attend our group consultations (you get up to 4 for FREE with your enrollment!), retake one or more of your enrolled on-demand program courses at no additional cost, or register for additional courses in our live webinar or home study CE catalog. Individual consultation sessions are also available with an anxiety expert if you’d like some more individualized help.
When you earn your Certificate in Anxiety & OCD Diagnosis & Treatment and ANX-PT™ post nominal certification credential through Mind Works Continuing Education, LLC, you gain a credibility marker that can help you communicate to potential clients (and employers) that you’re ready and excited to help them: identify anxious triggers, manage episodes and compulsions with adaptive coping, reduce worry and panic, repair relationships, and ultimately change their relationship with anxiety! And because the Certificate and your conferred certification credential do not expire, you don’t have to worry about anyone telling you to stop listing them on your website, directory listings, etc.
We’re eager to help you start your anxiety and OCD learning adventure! If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at cc@onlinececredits.com.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Online CE Credits grant this program's post-nominal certification credential?
No! The trainings and CEs (along with the program-level Certificate) are offered by Online CE Credits, but the certification credential and digital badge are issued by Mind Works Continuing Education, LLC, our independent certification body backed by a 30+ person advisory board.
Can I get new letters after my name when I complete the full certification?
Yes! Completion of all program courses gets you all the CEs through Online CE Credits and a program-level certificate. If you elect to complete all certification requirements through our independent certification body (Mind Works Continuing Education, LLC) you will receive a digital badge with a new post-nominal certification credential that you may advertise on your website, directories, CV, etc.
DISCLAIMER: No credential earned in the pursuit of continuing education guarantees competency to practice, and there is no expressed or written consent, direct or implied, given by Online CE Credits, Mind Works Continuing Education, LLC or their affiliates regarding your competency, ability, or legal right to practice. You must adhere to all licensing laws, rules, regulations, codes, and ethical guidelines of your applicable state professional licensing authority.
Can I pay in installments?
Yes! We offer installment plans for our certificate programs – most of them split into 3 or 4 monthly payments. You get immediate access to the program with your first installment!
Who/What is the administering body for your certificate programs?
Mind Works Continuing Education, LLC (MWCE). MWCE is owned by Online CE Credits (DBA for Mind Works Professional Education, Inc.) but is a separate legal entity backed by an advisory board that oversees program quality and certification standards.
What learning platform is used to facilitate the learning experience?
How long will these certificate programs usually take to complete?
Our programs on average take about 1.10x the total CE value to complete. You earn CE certificates along the way as you complete each module. No requirement to purchase “recertification”; Keep access to your course modules for your own review as needed!
Will a certificate or certification from Mind Works Continuing Education, LLC permit me to practice?
No! Only your state’s licensing board can permit you to practice as a mental health professional (social worker, LPC, LMFT, psychologist, etc.). Our cert programs provide knowledge credentials, not practice qualifiers! That said, many clinicians find that these credentials are fantastic credibility markers for their clients, potential clients, and employers.
Is there an appeals process for the certificate/certification process?
Our standards are objective and non-exclusionary; anyone who meets the program’s requirements can earn the credential. Thus, an appeals process has never been needed. However, if you experience any challenges with the learning platform or course content, you may email us at cc@onlinececredits.com.If you have questions or need help completing your certification requirements after completing coursework, you may contact our independent certification body – Mind Works Continuing Education, LLC – by clicking here.
Can I get a refund?
Yes! If you purchase a full program and desire a refund, you may do so within 24 hours of your order, no questions asked, as long as you have not completed any courses within the program.
Where can I learn more about the specific requirements for certificate/certification programs?
Mind Works Continuing Education, LLC (MWCE) is our independent certification body that grants post-nominal credentials, and as such, establishes the criteria for certifications. For specific information on standards and requirements, visit MWCE at mindworkscontinuinged.com.
Do I need to pay again or take additional courses after earning my certificate and/or post-nominal credential, to keep it "current?"
No! You do not need to take additional courses or pay more money just to stay “current.” Just like you earn your graduate degree once (and pay for it once), you likewise earn your continuing education certificate and credential once (and pay for it once).
Keep lifetime access to your content for refresher training and take advantage of included direct consultation to maintain your expertise in both theory and practice.