From Avoidance to Engagement: The Unified Protocol in Practice

Join Rebecca Berman for “From Avoidance to Engagement: The Unified Protocol in Practice,” an in-depth webinar exploring the rationale and application of the Unified Protocol (UP), a transdiagnostic, evidence-based treatment for emotional disorders.

Clients rarely present with a single, isolated disorder; more often, they experience overlapping symptoms that cut across diagnostic categories. As clinical presentations grow more complex, providers benefit from a treatment model that offers a clear, unifying case conceptualization to guide intervention across diverse symptoms.

This webinar will explore the rationale and application of the Unified Protocol (UP), a transdiagnostic, evidence-based treatment for emotional disorders. The UP targets experiential and emotional avoidance—core maintaining mechanisms of anxiety, OCD, and related conditions. Treatment strategies are designed to increase emotional tolerance, build cognitive flexibility, and foster willingness to approach rather than avoid. Participants will leave with concrete tools to integrate UP principles into their practice, supporting clients in reducing avoidance and cultivating emotional mastery.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to explain how the UP differs from disorder-specific CBT protocols in treating emotional disorders.
Participants will be able to identify how experiential and emotional avoidance reinforce maladaptive cycles across anxiety, OCD, and related conditions.
Participants will be able to apply UP interventions to increase clients’ tolerance of uncomfortable emotions.

1.5 CE credits will be provided by AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare.

Please note:
CE credits are only awarded to attendees who participate in the live session. Watching a recording of the previously recorded webinar does not qualify for credit.

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Rebecca Berman, LCSW, MLSP, CEDS-C

Clinical Director, Anxiety Institute

BS, University of Delaware // MSS, MLSP, Bryn Mawr College

For over two decades, Rebecca Berman has treated adolescents and adults with anxiety-related issues and eating disorders in outpatient, intensive outpatient, day treatment, residential, and inpatient settings. Rebecca earned a dual Master’s Degree in Social Service / Law and Social Policy from Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. Rebecca joins Anxiety Institute after fourteen years with the prestigious Renfrew Center where she served most recently as a Clinical Training Specialist. In that role, Rebecca was responsible for supervision, training, treatment, program development, and led Renfrew’s Trauma Informed Care initiative. Rebecca co-authored the groundbreaking treatment manual The Renfrew Unified Treatment for Eating Disorders and Comorbidity – An Adaptation of the Unified Protocol, published by Oxford University Press in 2021. Rebecca specializes in anxiety, trauma, eating disorders, and neurodiversity and has a special interest in working with the transgender population. Rebecca is a nationally recognized speaker in Trauma, Eating Disorders, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), Self-Injury, Neurodivergence, and Transdiagnostic Treatments.

In recent years, Rebecca has witnessed first-hand the overlap of anxiety, trauma and eating disorders in the adolescent, young adult, and adult populations. She is passionate about treating multiple disorders at once by understanding their maintaining mechanisms and the role of experiential avoidance. Rebecca has been motivated to research, develop, and implement cutting-edge transdiagnostic treatment practices using the unified protocol and cognitive processing therapy.

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Birgitta Johnson

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Phone: (612) 280-4503

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