Studying with leaders in the field, Dr. Selles has considerable training, clinical expertise, and research activity, including a number of scientific publications, in the assessment and treatment of OCD, anxiety disorders, and repetitive behaviour disorders (e.g., tics, hair-pulling, skin-picking). Dr. Selles’ work focuses on improving treatment outcomes for youth through research on assessment and phenomenology, barriers to treatment, factors that predict improvement, effective components of treatment, supplements to treatment, family involvement, and dissemination of evidence-based treatment to the community. Dr. Selles joined Anxiety Canada’s Scientific Advisory Committee in November 2017.