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.
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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
In their own words.
I've spent my career working with OCD in all its forms. I’m Celin, Clinical Psychologist, director of Melbourne Wellbeing Group, AHPRA-approved supervisor, and someone who has spent a long time thinking carefully about what actually makes OCD treatment work, and what quietly gets in the way.
My clinical focus is OCD across the lifespan. That includes complex, high-risk-feeling, and frequently misunderstood presentations such as perinatal OCD, harm-themed intrusions, scrupulosity, OCD in children and adolescents, and cases where previous treatment hasn't led to meaningful progress.
I trained at Deakin University and completed part of my Clinical Doctorate training at The Melbourne Clinic's OCD inpatient programme. I've since built a group private practice, supervised dozens of clinicians, developed training, written a clinical treatment manual on treating OCD, co-host a podcast with my colleague Dr Tori Miller, and spent more time than I can account for thinking about why this condition is so consistently misunderstood, and what it would take to change that.
I don't do surface-level. If you're here, I'm guessing you don't either.
The Podcast
Everything the textbook leaves out. Breaking the Rules is co-hosted by Dr Celin Gelgec and Dr Victoria Miller.
It’s a podcast for mental health clinicians who want to treat OCD well — and want honest, nuanced conversation about what that actually takes.
Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.
Here is what I keep coming back to ...
Uncertainty is uncomfortable for everyone. But for some people, that discomfort becomes the engine of a very specific kind of suffering. One that's exhausting, hidden, and surprisingly easy to misread.
I've spent years thinking about what it means to truly tolerate uncertainty. Not manage it, not neutralise it — but actually learn to live with it. It's the mechanism at the heart of OCD treatment. It's also, I think, one of the most important things any of us can learn to do. There's more to say on this. In the meantime — follow along: @drcelingelgec on Instagram. Listen to the podcast