Taylor Newendorp, MA, LCPC, is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Illinois and oversees the Clinical Onboarding and Training Team at NOCD. In this role, he uses his expertise in the treatment of OCD and related disorders to improve NOCD’s training program and ensure that NOCD therapists develop competency and confidence in delivering high-quality psychological services.

Mr. Newendorp earned his MA in marital and family therapy at the University of San Diego. Mr. Newendorp was a former clinical supervisor and therapist for a large behavioral health system’s anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders program. He oversaw all aspects of the evening intensive outpatient program and led cognitive behavioral therapy and exposure therapy groups for OCD and related anxiety disorders. Before transitioning to the OCD program, he was a co-coordinator and therapist for the health system’s binge-eating program.

Mentoring and training has been a large part of Mr. Newendorp’s career. He currently runs several consultation groups at NOCD, has provided talks on perfectionism at national conferences, and is involved in developing treatment protocols for OCD and conducting related research. Mr. Newendorp is the author of The Perfectionism Workbook: Proven Strategies to End Procrastination, Accept Yourself, and Achieve Your Goals, a workbook that incorporates cognitive-behavioral strategies to address perfectionism.