Dr Chad Brandt - Bergen format (Ep178)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2019
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Summary
Disclaimer - This podcast is for exploratory purposes only. The Bergen format is still being studied, and the success rate against weekly therapy is yet to be tested. If you are in therapy with a licensed therapist who understands OCD, and is using Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) you have the best treatment backed by decades of robust science whether you do that 1 hour a week, or in 3-week intensive.
In episode 178 of The OCD Stories podcast I interviewed Dr Chad Brandt. Chad is a licensed clinical psychologist with expertise in treating anxiety based disorders. He works at the Houston OCD program. We talk about his experience of being a therapist on the Bergen format, facing scary things and why you are normal. Hope it helps!
Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/podcast/dr-chad-brandt-bergen-format
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys and one up to episode 178 of the OCD Stories.com podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | Now in this episode I interviewed licensed clinical psychologist Dr. Chad Brandt. |
| 0:20.0 | Chad works at the Houston OCD program in the States and I wanted to |
| 0:24.8 | interview someone at that clinic for a while so it was good to get him on and |
| 0:28.4 | talk about all things ICD treatment. Now the Houston ICD program have recently adopted the Bergen 4 day format which is |
| 0:37.0 | four sort of 10 12 hour days of intensive therapy. |
| 0:41.0 | So it's kind of doing roughly like seven months of one hour a week |
| 0:45.7 | therapy in four days. Now I had the guys from Bergen on a month or so ago. |
| 0:53.0 | Stephanie check out that episode, but in this talking with Chad about his experience of being a therapist on that four day format. |
| 1:04.0 | We go into that. |
| 1:05.1 | It's really interesting. |
| 1:05.9 | We unpack the treatment a bit more and more |
| 1:08.0 | of the details, what he's learned from it, |
| 1:10.5 | his experience of that treatment. |
| 1:13.0 | It was really interesting to hear that. |
| 1:15.0 | And in this episode he talks a lot about fear as well, |
| 1:18.0 | which I found really interesting and ways of generally looking at kind of overcoming fear which or kind of I guess |
| 1:25.2 | necessary overcoming it learning to live your life in spite of it and then obviously |
| 1:30.0 | all the general questions towards the end so it it's a really interesting chat. I hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:35.3 | And if the podcast has been helping you, I'd appreciate it if you could leave a review on iTunes |
| 1:40.8 | or wherever you listen to this podcast as it helps me reach more people. So thank you. on iTunes |
| 1:43.0 | and reach more people. |
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