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About This Course

This is a live interactive webinar course that will take place on March 12, 2027 at 10amEST.

Obsessions about the body and mind are common across a range of diagnoses, including anxiety disorders. Clinicians working with individuals who experience anxiety about their bodies often face unique challenges in treatment. These challenges arise not only from the physical nature of the client’s experience but also from internalized faulty beliefs about the body and mind, shaped by sociocultural factors and distorted thinking patterns. Without addressing these underlying influences, treatment can be ineffective or even counterproductive. 

In this presentation, clinicians will learn to identify, conceptualize, and treat body-based obsessions using a transdiagnostic approach that targets shared core maintaining processes, including attentional rigidity, threat misappraisal, and intolerance of uncertainty.  Attendees will gain practical, evidence-based strategies to uncover feared consequences, challenge maladaptive beliefs, and improve treatment outcomes for clients struggling with body-focused anxiety.


Registration deadline: March 12, 2027, 9:30am

Learning Objectives

At the completion of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify common presentations of body-based obsessions.


  • Describe underlying shared mechanisms that maintain body-based obsessions.


  • Describe evidence-based treatment strategies that promote flexibility and engagement in values-based living.


  • Discuss a transdiagnostic framework to conceptualize body-based obsessions across diverse clinical presentations.


Course curriculum

    1. Body-Based Obsessions: Assessment, Conceptualization, and Treatment

    1. Course Evaluation Survey

About this course

  • $49.00
  • CE Credits: 1.5 hours
  • Live, Interactive Webinar
  • Level: Intermediate

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Instructor(s)

Molly Schiffer, LCPC

Associate DIrector for OCD and Anxiety at Sheppard Pratt

Molly Schiffer, LCPC, is the associate director of The Center for OCD and Anxiety at Sheppard Pratt in Towson, MD. She specializes in mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral treatment for OCD and related disorders, and in treating PTSD with cognitive processing therapy in both residential and outpatient settings. Schiffer is the author of The Body-Based Obsessions Workbook and a frequent presenter at the annual conferences of the International OCD Foundation and the Anxiety and Depression Association of America.

Continuing Education

Course Approvals

  • The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC is not responsible to verify that American Psychological Association continuing education credits are approved by an attendee's respective state licensing Board.


  • The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0189. Provider Name:  The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC Address:  1910 Route 70, E, Suite 7, Cherry Hill, NJ  08003-2123 Email address: [email protected] 


  • The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No.7263. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.


  • The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC, #1820, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 6/15/2023 - 6/15/2028. 


  • *A post test must be taken and passed in order to receive CE credit. Participants may retake the posttest a maximum of 3 times to receive a passing score. A qualifying passing score is 80% or above.

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