Building Trust When Your Child Has OCD
AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we explore why trust is the foundation for helping a child with OCD. When trust is missing, kids shut down, hide their struggles, and resist therapeutic strategies. I share simple, practical ways to build (and rebuild) trust — from validating their experience, to going at their pace, to connecting with who they are beyond OCD. Even small shifts can strengthen your relationship and make real progress possible.
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| 0:00.0 | Before you jump into today's episode, I want to talk to you about overwhelm. Do you get overwhelmed |
| 0:06.4 | when your child's anxiety or OCD starts to spiral? I know that I have. Is your child's fear or |
| 0:12.7 | discomfort contagious? It can be. And one of the biggest gifts we can give our child is the skill |
| 0:19.6 | to anchor ourselves. When we learn how to shift |
| 0:23.3 | our mindset out of fear and panic, when we learn how to ground ourselves and calm our nervous system, |
| 0:31.6 | when we learn how to spot our own triggers and we learn how to address them. We become an incredibly effective anchor |
| 0:39.7 | for our kids and their struggles. And honestly, it's not as hard as you might think. I had to |
| 0:46.1 | learn how to navigate incredible life stress, like the sudden passing of my husband a couple |
| 0:50.9 | years ago, along with raising three kids with anxiety, OCD, pots, ADHD, |
| 0:57.2 | RFID, we've got alphabet soup over here. But this has become a daily practice for me. And because of it, |
| 1:04.4 | not only have I felt more calm, I feel healthier, my kids are noticing the remarkable shift as well. And now I'm going to teach |
| 1:13.5 | you these skills. Join me in my free series, how to be an effective anchor for your child with |
| 1:19.2 | anxiety or OCD. You can register at atyparenting survival series.com. All these videos are on demand so you can watch the videos and |
| 1:29.3 | the replay on your schedule while the series is running, which will be January 8th through |
| 1:35.2 | January 16th. I hope to see you over there. Now back to the show. |
| 1:43.3 | Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD. |
| 1:52.3 | This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of a qualified professional. |
| 1:58.8 | Here's your host, child therapist, Natasha Daniels. |
| 2:02.6 | Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival podcast. |
| 2:07.9 | Today, we're going to talk about something that is critical when we're trying to help our kids |
| 2:12.0 | or teens with OCD, and that's building trust. |
| 2:16.2 | Without trust, it's going to be a slippery slope. And we're going to talk about |
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