Do You Have Enough Support Helping Your Child with OCD?
AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Parenting a child with OCD can feel incredibly isolating. Your child is on their own journey with anxiety or OCD, but that doesn’t mean you’re supposed to navigate it alone.
In this episode, I talk about one of the most overlooked pieces of helping kids with OCD: parent support.
I explore questions like:
- Who do you turn to when things feel overwhelming?
- Do you have access to other parents who get it?
- Do you have a safe place to vent without judgment?
- Are you surrounded by people who can validate your struggles and share what’s helped them?
- Does your child have access to age-appropriate support beyond just you?
I also share why having a community matters so much when you’re raising a child with anxiety or OCD — not just for emotional support, but for practical tools, shared wisdom, and grounding perspective when OCD is loud.
At the end of the episode, I talk about the AT Parenting Community, which is currently open for a limited time. Inside the community, parents get access to:
- A supportive space to connect with other parents raising kids with anxiety and OCD
- Live classes, on-demand courses and support group calls for parents, kids and teens
- Helpful resources and ongoing education
- A place to private message me and other parents questions
- A safe, understanding environment where you don’t have to explain or justify what you’re going through
If you’ve been trying to do this on your own, this episode is an invitation to pause and ask: Do I have enough support — and what would change if I did?
🧡 The AT Parenting Community is open until Thursday. Join us at www.atparentingcommunity.com
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This podcast episode is sponsored by NOCD. NOCD provides online OCD therapy in the US, UK, Australia and Canada. To schedule your free 15 minute consultation to see if NOCD is a right fit for you and your child, go to
https://go.treatmyocd.com/at_parenting
This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be used to replace the guidance of a qualified professional.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we jump into today's episode, I want to reach out to you if you've been drowning |
| 0:05.6 | trying to help your child with anxiety or OCD or feel like no one gets your struggles |
| 0:11.0 | or you would love to know evidence-based home approaches to help your child, teen, or young |
| 0:17.2 | adult. And if that is you, you're going to want to hear this. The AT parenting community is |
| 0:22.0 | open just until this Thursday at 9 p.m. Pacific. That's midnight Eastern. And inside the community, |
| 0:28.7 | we offer a group of compassionate, helpful, and caring parents. And we also offer evidence-based |
| 0:35.7 | clinically sound approaches to help kids, teens, and young adults. |
| 0:40.1 | And you get access to over $500 worth of my courses, weekly live Zoom classes, and monthly support group calls not just for you, but we have them for kids and teens as well. |
| 0:51.7 | Plus, you're able to message me and other members directly in our app to get |
| 0:56.8 | guidance and support. Join us at attparentingcommunity.com. Doors close this Thursday. Okay, now back to |
| 1:05.9 | today's episode. Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD. |
| 1:19.2 | This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of a qualified professional. |
| 1:25.7 | Here's your host, child therapist, Natasha Daniels. |
| 1:29.7 | Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. |
| 1:34.8 | Today, I want to talk to you about support. |
| 1:38.0 | How much support do you have? |
| 1:39.9 | Do you need to tap into other areas of support? |
| 1:42.8 | Are you trying to white knuckle this and help your child with OCD and anxiety alone? |
| 1:49.4 | And what does helpful versus not helpful support look like? |
| 1:54.2 | We can all relate to that. |
| 1:55.9 | But before we dive in, I do want to thank NoCD for sponsoring this episode. |
| 2:00.1 | NoCD offers affordable, |
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