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Throstur Bjorgvinsson

Thröstur-Björgvinsson

Throstur Bjorgvinsson

Co-Director

Thröstur Björgvinsson, PhD, ABPP, is the co-director of the OCD & Anxiety Program of Southern California.

He has developed a national and international reputation as a clinical innovator, particularly in the implementation of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for the treatment of severe anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders. His research interests focus on treatment outcomes, seeking to establish the effectiveness of CBT for a wide range of psychiatric disorders, particularly OCD. He is a certified therapist in providing the Bergen 4 Day Treatment (B4DT) and he led the first pilot study of the B4DT in the USA. Currently, he is co-leading the international dissemination (clinical training and research) of the B4DT with Bjarne Hansen (PI). He has published over 150 scholarly articles and given or over 400 presentations and workshops, nationally and internationally, on evidence-based treatments for OCD, anxiety disorders and depression. He is also the director of the International Dissemination of Evidence Based Approaches (IDEA lab) at McLean Hospital; associate professor of psychology at the department of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; adjunct professor, department of psychology, University of Bergen. Also he is the founder and senior advisor of Texas OCD Institute (formerly Houston OCD Program).

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

- Nelson Mandela

We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

- Douglas Adams

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be

- Douglas Adams

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.

- Douglas Adams

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

- Douglas Adams

Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you

- Bethany Hamilton

Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself.

- Albus Dumbledore

How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it

- Judy Blume

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most

- Eleanor Roosevelt

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

- Douglas Adams

It ain’t over ’til it’s over.

- Yogi Berra

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Move, but don’t move the way fear makes you make

- Rumi

The best way out is always through.

- Robert Frost

The future ain’t what it used to be.

- Yogi Berra

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of ever fear is freedom

- Marilyn Ferguson

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by

- Douglas Adams

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

- Albus Dumbledore

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.

- Douglas Adams

If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

- Yogi Berra

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

- Douglas Adams

We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.

- Dan Millman

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

- Helen Keller

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

- Henry Ford

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