482 Why My ERP Isn't Working: 5 Common Mistakes & What to Fix
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist
4.9 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I walk you through the five most common mistakes people make with ERP and share practical, compassionate strategies to help you break free from the OCD cycle and make your recovery work more effective.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Your Anxiety Tollkit podcast. |
| 0:05.2 | I am so excited you're here. |
| 0:07.4 | Now, listen up. |
| 0:08.8 | If you are listening to this on the day in which this is released, which is April 22nd, |
| 0:14.6 | I want you to not walk but run all the way to CBT School.com. |
| 0:20.4 | I want you to click the link below this podcast because we are |
| 0:25.7 | having a little bit of a launch party for one of the courses that we have, which is called |
| 0:31.1 | your OCD toolkit. For today only, if you register for your OCD toolkit, you will also get a free live Q&A with me |
| 0:42.0 | where I answer all your questions about the course, about the modules, about OCD, what's getting |
| 0:48.4 | in the way. It is going to be so much fun. I have been doing this about once a month with different |
| 0:53.8 | courses that I have. If you're someone who wants to be so much fun. I have been doing this about once a month with different courses that I |
| 0:54.5 | have. If you're someone who wants to be in the know of what's going on with this, do go over to |
| 1:00.2 | CBTschool.com and sign up for our newsletter because I give a lot more notice than I am today. |
| 1:05.6 | But what we want to do here is I'm loving answering your questions. I'm loving you guys taking the courses |
| 1:12.0 | as a cohort and then coming on and doing live Q&As with me where we really get to the |
| 1:17.5 | nitty-gritty. So again, click the link in the show notes. I cannot wait to meet with you and see |
| 1:24.0 | your beautiful face and chat with you online. All right? Let's get over to the episode. |
| 1:29.2 | Now, you're doing all of the exposures, but why does it feel like nothing is changing? |
| 1:34.6 | Nothing is moving the needle. Now, ERP is one of the most powerful tools for OCD and anxiety, |
| 1:41.9 | but there are specific tricks that make it work a little better. |
| 1:46.8 | Now, by the end of this video, you will learn the five most common ERP mistakes, |
| 1:52.8 | how to do exposure and response prevention in a way that actually works, |
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