PSP 494: Moral OCD: What to Do When Your Child Keeps Confessing
The urge to confess can bring brief relief, but it often leaves the child needing to confess again the next time doubt shows up. Parents can...
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20 of 327 episodesPSP 493: What Most Parents Get Wrong About OCD
Parenting kids with OCD can be tough. Especially since much of how to navigate OCD is counterintuitive. After over two decades supporting pa...
PSP 492: Six Parenting Struggles No One Talks About When Your Child Has OCD
Parenting a child with OCD can feel lonely in ways people don’t always understand. Even when you know what OCD is, know what you’re supposed...
PSP 491: Why Doing the Right Thing for Your Child’s OCD Can Feel So Wrong
When you start pulling back accommodations, your child may actually become more distressed, irritable, or angry. That can leave you wonderin...
PSP 490: Why is My Child’s OCD So Much Worse at Home?!
Maybe they can go to school, visit friends, or function fairly well outside the house, but the second they get home, OCD seems to take over....
PSP 489: Understanding Your Child’s Sensory Needs with Laura Petix
If your child seems to have big reactions to sounds, textures, clothing, food, transitions, or everyday experiences, sensory processing may...
PSP 488: How Parents Can Cope While Raising a Child With Anxiety or OCD with Janine Halloran
When you’re raising a child with anxiety or OCD, so much of your energy can go toward helping them cope that it’s easy to forget that you ne...
PSP 487: The Three Skills I Wish Everyone With OCD Knew
In this episode, I’m sharing the three skills I come back to again and again when helping people change their relationship with OCD. They’re...
PSP 486: How Much Should Parents Be Involved in OCD Treatment?
When your child has OCD, treatment doesn’t happen in a vacuum. OCD comes home with them. It impacts routines, relationships, school, behavio...
PSP 485: When Your Child Won’t Tell You What Their OCD Is About
One of the hardest parts of parenting a child with OCD is not knowing what’s actually going on. Your child insists they’re “fine,” avoids yo...
PSP 484: When OCD Makes Your Child’s Thoughts Feel Contaminated
Natasha Daniels explores mental contamination OCD—a lesser-known but surprisingly common form of OCD that can leave children feeling like so...
PSP 483: How Chronic Illness Impacts a Child’s Mental Health with Chyllia Dixon
In this episode, I talk with Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Chyllia Dixon about the emotional impact of growing up with a chro...
PSP 482: What Parents Get Wrong When Deciding Whether OCD Treatment Is Working
It can be hard to tell whether OCD treatment is helping, especially when compulsions haven’t noticeably decreased, distress seems higher, or...
PSP 481: What Parents Get Wrong About OCD Intrusive Thoughts
If your child has OCD, you’ve probably spent countless hours trying to make their intrusive thoughts go away. It’s an understandable instinc...
PSP 480: The 7 Parenting Traps That Quietly Keep OCD in Charge
As parents, we naturally want to comfort, protect, and help our children. But when OCD enters the picture, some of our most loving instincts...
PSP 479: Growing Up with OCD: Izzy’s Story of Courage and Determination
In this episode, I sit down with Izzy, a child in The AT Parenting Community kids support group, as she shares her personal journey with OCD...
PSP 478: Learning to Parent the Child You Have, Not the Child You Expected
Every parent begins their journey with hopes and expectations. We imagine what family life will look like, what milestones our children will...
PSP 477: 8 Signs You Don’t Fully Understand Your Child’s OCD
If you’ve ever wondered why your child’s OCD keeps changing, why the same strategies don’t seem to work anymore, or why treatment feels like...
PSP 476: When OCD Recovery Feels Worse Before It Feels Better
Starting treatment for OCD can be one of the most hopeful steps a family takes, but it can also be one of the most confusing. Many parents e...
PSP 475: Common OCD Themes Even Therapists Sometimes Miss
Many OCD themes are frequently misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or completely overlooked because they don’t match the stereotypes most people as...