Almost all clinicians agree that consultation helps us be better at our jobs. Committing to the consultation can be another story. In this episode, Dr. Andrew Sherrill of the Emory University Prolonged Exposure Consultant Training Program shares some actionable intel on facing and overcoming five common barriers to committing to consultation.

Andrew M. Sherrill, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a practicing clinical psychologist at the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program and the Emory Healthcare OCD Program. He is also the program manager of the Emory University Prolonged Exposure Consultant Training Program. He received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Northern Illinois University. He completed his predoctoral internship at the American Lake Division of VA Puget Sound Healthcare System and his postdoctoral fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Sherrill’s clinical expertise includes behavior therapies for trauma- and anxiety-related disorders including prolonged exposure for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), exposure and response prevention for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and acceptance and commitment therapy for a range of emotion disorders. His areas of specialization include the use of virtual reality in exposure therapies and the implementation of massed delivered evidence-based psychotherapy. His current research aims to understand the effective dissemination and implementation of exposure therapy and the development of mobile technologies that facilitate exposure therapy through pervasive health strategies in the areas of ubiquitous computing, human-computer interaction, and machine learning.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Emory University Prolonged Exposure Consultant Training Program: https://psychiatry.emory.edu/programs/pe_consultant_training/index.html
• Here’s a link to the first study published by the Emory training program, “Creating a national network of community-based consultants in prolonged exposure for PTSD: Outcomes and lessons learned from a consultant training program.”

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-54868-001

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