Brad Hufford: Functioning well despite OCD distress is still a victory (#520)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In episode 520 I chat with Brad Hufford. Brad is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-C) who specialises in working with OCD. He is a therapist at the Behavior therapy Center of Greater Washington.
We discuss Brad's OCD story, being a therapist over the last 30 years, exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), the therapy relationship, the idea of functioning well despite distress is still a victory, motivation in ERP, words of hope and much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The OCD Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.6 | The OCD Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding around obsessive, |
| 0:11.2 | compulsive symptoms. |
| 0:12.9 | I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, psychologists, and people who have experienced |
| 0:17.9 | OCD. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to the OCD Stories. |
| 0:24.7 | And welcome to episode 520 of the podcast. |
| 0:30.8 | And in this one, I got on Brad Hufford. Brad is a licensed clinical social worker who specialises in working with OCD. In this, we discuss Brad's OCD story, being a therapist over the last 30 years, |
| 0:37.3 | exposure and response prevention therapy, being a therapist over the last 30 years, exposure and response prevention |
| 0:38.7 | therapy, the therapy relationship, the idea of functioning well despite distress is still a |
| 0:44.4 | victory, motivation and ERP, words of hope, and much more. Now, if you stay tuned at the end, |
| 0:50.3 | Brad wanted me to add a couple minute addendum, clarifying some of his points during the |
| 0:55.0 | interview. So I bolted that on at the very end of the interview, if you're curious about that. |
| 0:59.5 | And thanks to our podcast partners, NoCD. If OCD is interfering with your life, NoCD can help. |
| 1:06.4 | They're licensed therapists, specialize in exposure and response prevention therapy, the most proven |
| 1:11.7 | therapy for OCD. With no CD, effective treatment that is 100% virtual is available for children |
| 1:18.1 | and adults with OCD. And most members can get started within seven days on average. No hassle, |
| 1:23.9 | just real, science-backed help and support between sessions. Begin your journey at nocd.com or I'll put the link in the episode description. So thank you so much to Brad for his time and expertise. It was great chatting with him. And of course, thank you to you guys for listening. As always, it means a lot. And without further ado, here is Brad. Welcome to the podcast, Brad. Thank you. |
| 1:45.1 | Yeah, it's good to have you on. |
| 1:47.0 | So, yeah, where do you want to start? |
| 1:50.2 | Like your OCD story or therapy journey of what got you into being a therapist? |
| 1:54.9 | What's the logical start, you think? |
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