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).