For partners
Shared responsibilities, closeness, repeated reassurance and the effect of OCD on life as a couple.
Courses for family and loved ones
Related courses with a shared understanding of OCD and a distinct focus on each relationship.
In development · For family and loved ones
A shared understanding of OCD, with room for your experience
Online courses for partners, parents, siblings and other people close to someone with OCD. A thorough understanding of how OCD works and what changing its patterns involves is central to every course. This shared foundation helps you communicate and work together, with attention to the support the person needs and your own experience.
Courses developed around the same understanding
A thorough understanding of OCD is the foundation of each course. Using the same models and core concepts as the course for people with OCD, you explore why doubt, distress or a sense of incompleteness can make rituals and mental strategies feel necessary, even when a fear or rule seems illogical from the outside.
You also learn what the work of changing these patterns involves: what methods such as exposure aim to change, why familiar responses can be difficult to leave behind and what it means to practise a different response. This understanding is central to cooperation: it gives you a shared language for discussing what the person experiences and the help they need.
Each course connects this foundation with your own needs and the relationship you share. You explore how to support the person’s work with OCD, including their course work where relevant.
A course shaped around your relationship
For parents
Care, responsibility and boundaries as your child’s age, independence and needs change.
For siblings
Family expectations, your own place in the family and the relationship you want with your sibling.
For friends and other loved ones
Offering support within the role you actually have, with clear limits and room for ordinary time together.
Your needs belong in the picture
Each course gives attention to the loved one’s own experience, including worry, exhaustion, frustration and the difficulty of setting limits with someone you care about.
The material explores support alongside your own needs and the relationship itself. Responsibility for directing treatment or checking whether exercises are performed correctly does not become the loved one’s job.