Welcome to the VR Exposure Therapy Academy
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Welcome to the oVRcome Academy. This course gives you the practical skills to deliver Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy with confidence.
Adding VR to your toolkit expands what your practice can offer: repeatable, diagnosis-specific exposures let you take on referrals you might otherwise decline, home VR keeps clients practising between sessions, and offering VR-assisted care helps your clinic stand out. It's an extension of evidence-based exposure work, not a separate service to build from scratch.
Work through the modules in any order. Each lesson is led by a practising clinician who uses VR in real-world care.
Start with the Foundations module, then move into Delivering, Applying, and Special Topics when you're ready.
Meet your presenters
Your learning is led by three clinicians at the forefront of VR exposure therapy, bringing decades of combined clinical and research experience.
Kim Bullock, MD
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
Dr. Bullock is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine and founder and director of Stanford's Virtual Reality & Immersive Technology Clinic. A psychiatrist, researcher and leader in immersive mental health, her work focuses on developing and integrating virtual and extended reality into evidence-based psychiatric care, including applications for anxiety, phobias and trauma.
Corrie Ackland, PhD
Principal Clinical Psychologist & Director, Sydney Phobia Clinic
Dr. Ackland is a clinical psychologist and Clinical Director of Sydney Phobia Clinic, specialising in the treatment of phobias, anxiety disorders and OCD. She has more than a decade of clinical experience and holds a PhD from UNSW. She is also the National Lead Clinical Psychologist for Flight Experience Global, overseeing fear-of-flying programmes across Australia, and is an experienced clinical supervisor.
Andrea Kulberg, PhD, CEDS
Clinical Director, Anxiety Experts
Dr. Kulberg is a licensed psychologist with 25 years of experience in the treatment of anxiety and eating disorders. She is trained through the International OCD Foundation in Exposure with Response Prevention and regularly speaks at national conferences including IAEDP and IOCDF. Her experience spans hospital, residential, and outpatient settings, including the Child & Adolescent Eating Disorder Program at Eating Recovery Center in Denver, as well as undergraduate and graduate psychology teaching.
You'll also find clinician case studies alongside the curriculum, where practising clinicians share how VR exposure therapy works in their day-to-day caseload.
Lesson summary
Meet your instructors and understand how the Academy prepares you to deliver VR exposure therapy with confidence.
Key learning points
- How the modules build on each other
- Learning from practising clinicians across different therapeutic approaches
- How to navigate lessons and track progress