Conference Keynote Addresses
- Online symposium series sponsored by ArtMed Publishering, Sao Paulo, Brazil. [the recorded address appears on the ArtMed YouTube channel in Portuguese] Solving the Anxiety Puzzle with Process-oriented CBT, September, 2024.
- Recorded address to the 17th International Congress of Clinical Psychology, Spain, Process-oriented CBT for Anxiety, November, 2024.
- Recorded address for the 4th International Congress of Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapies, Ankara, Türkiye, When in Doubt: A CBT Approach to Excessive Doubt, October, 2024.
- Online address at 10th annual conference of the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, Halifax, Canada, Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts and the Mental Control Paradox: Treatment implications for worry, rumination and obsessions, May 22, 2020.
- National Conference of the Turkish Association for Cognitive Behaviour Psychotherapy, Istanbul, Turkey, Unwanted Mental Intrusions: A Transdiagnostic Perspective on Emotional Disorders, November, 2019.
- 40th National Conference of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behavior Therapy, Adelaide, Australia, Is there anything new in CBT research and treatment of obsessions and compulsions? October, 2019.
- Annual Meeting of the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, Bath, UK, Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: Another Neglected Transdiagnostic Process with Clinical Implications, September, 2019.
- Annual Conference of AnzaCBT, Christchurch, NZ, Mental intrusions: The role of spontaneous thought in the emotional disorders. November, 2017.
- Beck Institute Excellence Summit, Philadelphia, PA, Treating obsessions and other mental blighters. October, 2017.
- World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, Melbourne, Australia, Cross-cultural research in OCD: So what? June, 2016.
- IX AEPCP Congress, Valencia, Spain, Cognitive-behavior therapy for OCD: Does it have a future? October, 2015.
- International Congress of Cognitive Psychotherapy, Hong Kong, A matter of control: Cognitive approaches to emotion regulation of anxiety, .June, 2014.
- Self in Psychopathology conference, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. Vulnerability to obsessionality: Does selfhood offer any hope? November 12, 2013.
- Canadian Psychological Association, St. John’s, NL . Public lecture A rising tide of fear and despair: Effective psychological treatments for anxiety and depression, June 9, 2004.
- IX Brazilian Congress of Cognitive Therapies, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. The paradox of cognitive control: Obsessions, intrusions and other troublesome cognitions, April 11, 2013.
- British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, Belfast, UK. Opening Pandora’s box: Clinical implications of the paradox of unwanted intrusions and intentional mental control , April 5, 2013.
- British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive psychotherapy, Manchester, UK. Treating without Knowing: Should cognitive therapy lighten-up? , July 21, 2010.
- World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Boston, USA. Too much in the head: A paradoxical look at obsessions , June 5, 2010.
- Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. Control of Repetitive Anxious Thoughts: New Developments in the Cognitive Perspective, March 10, 2009.
- Greek Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Psychotherapies, Patras, Greece. From theory to practice: The Example of OCD , November 3, 2007.
- Psychiatric Symposium on Contemporary Treatment of Depression, Hyatt Regency Coolum, Brisbane, Australia . Cognitive Theory and Treatment of Depression , September 18, 2001.