Queasy Does It: Exposure Response Prevention for Emetophobia

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

Rebecca Berman (she/her) is the Clinical Director of Anxiety Institute in McLean, Virginia, and has more than two decades of experience treating adolescents and adults across outpatient, intensive outpatient, day treatment, residential, and inpatient levels of care. She specializes in anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders and ARFID, and trauma, with particular expertise in working with neurodivergent individuals.

Rebecca earned dual master’s degrees in Social Service and Law & Social Policy from Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. She is a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist and Approved Consultant (CEDS-C), a Certified Therapist and Expert Trainer with the Unified Protocol Institute, and a Board-Approved Clinical Supervisor in Virginia and Maryland.

At Anxiety Institute, Rebecca provides clinical leadership, supervision, consultation, and program development while supporting the delivery of evidence-based care for complex anxiety and related disorders. Her clinical approach integrates Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders (UP), and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), with an emphasis on understanding the processes that maintain symptoms across diagnoses and adapting treatment to the individual.

Prior to joining Anxiety Institute in 2023, Rebecca spent 14 years at The Renfrew Center, where she held clinical and training leadership roles and most recently served as a Clinical Training Specialist. Her work included clinician training and supervision, treatment and program development, and leadership of Renfrew’s Trauma-Informed Care initiative. She co-authored The Renfrew Unified Treatment for Eating Disorders and Comorbidity: An Adaptation of the Unified Protocol, published by Oxford University Press in 2021.

Rebecca is a nationally recognized speaker and trainer and regularly presents on anxiety and OCD, exposure-based treatment, eating disorders and ARFID, and transdiagnostic approaches to care. She provides supervision and consultation to clinicians across disciplines and is passionate about helping clinicians deliver evidence-based care in ways that are individualized, collaborative, and neuroaffirming.

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AB, Bryn Mawr College // MSS, Bryn Mawr College

Caitlin Haskett comes to Anxiety Institute with broad clinical experience working with people of all ages with eating disorders, autism spectrum disorders, trauma-related disorders, and anxiety disorders in intensive treatment programs. Caitlin specializes in second and third-wave cognitive behavioral therapies with an emphasis on exposure-based techniques. As part of the LGBTQIA+ community, Caitlin has an affinity for working with LGBTQIA+ adolescents and young adults. Additionally, in 2020, Caitlin received the L. Diane Bernard Award for LGBT and Human Sexuality Projects while completing graduate studies at Bryn Mawr College School for Social Work and Social Research.

Caitlin’s clinical approach focuses on clients’ lived it experience, recognizing that each person is the expert in their own life. Outside of work, Caitlin is a board game enthusiast and proud snake parent, focused on community. Caitlin’s warm, relational style helps clients to develop their own authenticity.

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