Brian D. Ott Ph. D.

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I am a psychologist with over 35 years’ experience in the treatment of anxiety and the education of health care professionals in research validated approaches. His primary focus is in helping individuals with anxiety to learn and effectively use research proven techniques such as Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP).

Much of my professional life has been spent teaching. I have lectured in the use of CBT and Exposure and Response Prevention for Anxiety Disorders, both nationally and internationally, leading over 200 workshops and seminars for health care professionals.

Through my years of clinical work, I have come to recognize that successful treatment of anxiety requires three basic elements:

- A clear understanding by the patient of how their anxiety developed through normal psychological and biological processes.

- An individual treatment plan that is created as a collaboration between the doctor and the patient.

- The application of treatment techniques such as Exposure and Response Prevention at a pace that allows progress, but does not overwhelm.

I received my doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Hofstra University in 1980 and completed post-doctoral training at Temple University Medical School/Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute with Joseph Wolpe and the Institute for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy with Albert Ellis. I am a Professor of Clinical Psychology at William James College and serve onthe faculty of the Harvard Medical School. For the past four years I have served as a member of the scientific orientation committee of the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards, and am formally an officer and executive committee member of the Massachusetts Psychological Association. Much of my clinical work has been conducted as a staff psychologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry.