Understanding Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
This is a Live Virtual Zoom webinar
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
11-12:30pm EST / 10-11:30am CST / 9-10:30am MST / 8-9:30am PST
$10 – 2 CEs for LCSW, LMHC, LMFT, and CMSW through Florida CEBrokers.
Florida Certification Board recognizes this training for continuing education in the areas of mental health and child welfare.
Cost: $49.00 Early-Bird until 2/2, then $69.00
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Learning Objectives:
- Describe the diagnostic criteria for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and related disorders.
- Identify key red flags that may indicate the presence of OCD.
- Recognize common themes and presentation patterns of OCD across developmental stages.
- Determine when OCD symptoms meet the threshold for clinical impairment and require treatment.
Presenters:
Isabel (Izzy) Brahn, LMHC, NCC
Isabel (Izzy) Brahm (formerly Devorkin) is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and National Certified Counselor. Izzy received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse, and continued her education at Mount Mary University where she earned a Master’s in Clinical Mental health Counseling. Izzy completed her hours toward licensure under the supervision of the practice owner, Dr. Gibson.
Izzy completed her internship experience with Children’s Wisconsin, where she worked with children and their parents utilizing a variety of interventions such as Play Therapy, TheraPlay, and Child Parent Psychotherapy. There Izzy gained extensive experience with younger children ages 2-8. Izzy also gained experience understanding treatment needs through a trauma lens.
Izzy is passionate about supporting children, teens, and parents, with a strong focus on evidence-based therapies to help them navigate challenges and build lasting resilience. She believes in meeting each individual and family where they are, recognizing their unique strengths and needs while providing personalized, compassionate care. Izzy prioritizes building strong, trusting relationships with every client who walks into her office, ensuring they feel heard, supported, and empowered.
With experience using trauma-informed and strength-based approaches, Izzy has worked with children with PTSD, anxiety disorders, adjustment disorders, ADHD, and behavioral challenges. She has provided one-on-one support to a child with Autism on daily living skills, worked closely with at-risk teens, and gained hands-on experience as a teaching assistant in a child care center.
Izzy has completed training in Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and treating school refusal. In November 2024, she completed the International OCD Foundation Pediatric Behavior Therapy Training Institute Training, focusing on Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to effectively treat children with OCD and related disorders, including Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs). Additionally, she completed TLC’s Virtual Professional Training Institute on treating BFRBs and is trained to provide SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions), a therapy for child anxiety and/or OCD that works with parents only. Izzy and Dr Gibson co-created Mighty Minds, an OCD camp for kids and teens, which Izzy now directs each summer.
Izzy is a certified Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) therapist. Izzy is also certified in PCIT Adapted for Selective Mutism (PCIT-SM). Izzy serves as the site supervisor for undergraduate interns.
Katherine F. Gibson, Psy.D., ABPP
Dr. Kate Gibson started her mental health career in Sarasota, Florida in 1998 at the Coastal Recovery Center Crisis Stabilization Unit followed by the Coastal Recovery Center Juvenile Assessment Center before pursuing her graduate education. Dr. Gibson received her Doctor of Psychology degree in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University in San Diego, CA in 2008. Prior to that Dr. Gibson earned a Master of Arts degree in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, NY. Dr. Gibson is Board Certified in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology, and is a National Register Health Service Psychologist.
Dr. Gibson provides therapy to children, teens and families with a supportive, goal oriented, and cognitive behavioral (CBT) focus. Dr. Gibson is experienced at treating anxiety disorders, OCD and related disorders, trauma, mood disorders, attention difficulties, impulsivity, and other behavioral problems in children. In 2016 Dr. Gibson completed the International OCD Foundation Pediatric Behavior Therapy Training Institute Training on using Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to effectively treat children with OCD and related disorders such as Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) like trichotillomania and excoriation disorder. Dr. Gibson is also trained to provide SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions), a therapy for child anxiety and/or OCD that works with parents only.
Dr. Gibson is certified by PCIT International as a Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Therapist and Regional Trainer (able to train clinicians in Florida to become PCIT therapists or Within Agency Trainers). Dr. Gibson is certified by Kurtz Psychology Consulting as a Therapist and Within Agency Trainer for PCIT adapted for Selective Mutism (PCIT-SM). Dr. Gibson is first author of “Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Adapted for Older Children: A Research Development Manual.” Dr. Gibson is rostered to provide the adaptation “PCIT with Toddlers” as well.
Dr. Gibson has additional expertise in the treatment of trauma in children. Dr. Gibson specializes in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and is a certified TF-CBT therapist. Dr. Gibson is also trained in Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), an attachment based trauma focused therapy for young children and their caregivers Dr. Gibson has done research in the areas of trauma resulting from intimate partner violence, sexual assault, child abuse, and trauma program evaluation.
Dr. Gibson Co-Founded the first Parent and Child Psychological Services in New York City in 2010, where she provided therapy, assessment and supervision before relocating to Florida and opening Parent and Child Psychological Services in Sarasota in 2014. In New York Dr. Gibson co-founded a women’s health and wellness private practitioner networking group. Dr. Gibson worked with Unleashed, an after school leadership program for middle school girls in New York City that involved them in animal rescue. In addition to running Parent and Child Psychological Services of Sarasota, Dr. Gibson was the Training Director at Kurtz Psychology Consulting from 2019 to 2022. In that role Dr. Gibson coordinated training of undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate trainees in PCIT, PCIT-SM and CBT. Dr. Gibson was also co-director of the Kurtz Psychology MMK SM camp. Dr. Gibson created a 1-day intensive for children with SM focused on parent coaching in a simulated village called Lifetown in Livingston, NJ and implemented the intensive at Kurtz Psychology and Caring Cove. Dr. Gibson worked at Caring Cove in Chatham, NJ from 2022-2023 where she co-directed the first MMK New Jersey assisting the program with adopting the SM Intensive Group Behavioral Treatment camp model from Kurtz Psychology. Dr. Gibson brought MMK to this practice in Sarasota in the Summer of 2023. Dr Gibson assisted in the creation and development of Mighty Minds- OCD camp that will launched in June 2024.
Dr. Gibson completed American Psychological Association (APA) accredited clinical training at Astor Services for Children and Families, a non-profit outpatient community mental health center in the Bronx, NY where she worked in both outpatient and day treatment settings. Dr. Gibson went on to be the Clinical Supervisor at one of Astor’s outpatient clinics. Dr. Gibson also completed clinical training at two trauma specialty clinics: The Chadwick Center for Children and Families in San Diego, CA (treating children and parents of children who had been exposed to trauma using the Trauma Assessment Pathway (TAP)), and Safe Horizon Counseling Center in Brooklyn, NY.
Dr. Gibson is passionate about providing and training others to provide high quality care. Dr Gibson provides training, consultation and supervision on the implementation of Evidence Based Treatments for children and adolescents.
This training may help prepare you for competencies related to the Florida Association for Infant Mental Health Endorsement. (For those outside Florida, check your state’s requirements).