Reading, tools and references
A growing library of materials curated by our clinicians - for those in therapy, and for fellow practitioners.
The Behaviour Is Not the Problem: Transforming Clinical Work with Traumatised Children Through an Attachment Lens
Reading children's challenging behaviour as nervous-system adaptation — and why caregivers are the therapeutic instrument in attachment-informed work like IATP-C.
Seeing the Client Differently: The Transformative Power of Attachment Theory in Clinical Practice
How an attachment lens reframes 'resistant,' 'demanding,' or 'untreatable' adult clients as coherent adaptations — and what AFTTA and EMDR add to the work.
Clinical Differentiation: Distinguishing OCD from OCPD in Practice
Ego-dystonic vs. ego-syntonic, focal symptoms vs. pervasive traits - and how comorbidity reshapes ERP for patients with rigid personality structures.
Clinical Differentiation: Distinguishing Body Dysmorphic Disorder from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Practice
Insight, compulsive topography, core beliefs and suicide risk - the key clinical markers that separate BDD from OCD and reshape treatment.
Addressing the Overgeneralization of Treatment in Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
Why grouping OCD, BDD, hoarding, trichotillomania and excoriation under one umbrella tempts clinicians into a one-size-fits-all approach - and how to tailor treatment by function.
Optimizing Exposure and Response Prevention: A Practitioner's Guide to Applying Inhibitory Learning Theory
How shifting from habituation to inhibitory learning sharpens ERP for OCD - with eight evidence-based strategies to deepen extinction and reduce relapse.