João Tiago Oliveira

Prioritizing the central role of clients: identifying and working with clients’ capacities and contributions in psychotherapy Clients in psychotherapy bring extensive knowledge about their lives, formidable healing capacities, and the energy needed to affect change. In this paper, we discuss how clients work and contribut...

In this paper, we discuss how clients work and contribute to therapeutic effectiveness. We delineate 11 capacities that clients bring into session which can be activated and enhanced to support their becoming self-directive and agentic outside therapy.

A wonderful memory from @sprofficial.bsky.social with the Mustache Gang, @andrewathan.bsky.social and James Boswell, at #SPRKrakow2025. Another amazing conference!

Exposure and Response Prevention in OCD: A Framework to Capitalize Change Exposure and response prevention (ERP) constitutes the first-line treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Despite robust empirical evidence supporting its efficacy, ERP has challenges, inc...

One of our add-on proposals for the ERP treatment of OCD

How to combine exposure and response prevention with add-ons for the treatment of obsessive–compulsive disorder?

The use of ecological momentary assessment methods and designs in the context of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is becoming an increasingly prevalent methodology in the field of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) research, …

Our recent paper on the use of Ecological Momentary Assessment with OCD patients