Does Your Child Have Contamination OCD: Are You Missing This?

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety

Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent

Parenting, Ocd Therapy, Ocd In Children, Ocd, Anxiety, Child Anxiety, Child Ocd, Kids & Family, Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Contamination OCD can be easy to spot, but often, it runs much deeper than what you are observing.

In this episode, I break down the common mistakes parents make when trying to support a child with contamination OCD, such as:

Assuming it’s always about germs or illness
Focusing only on visible rituals instead of the underlying fear
Overlooking how contamination spreads from “ground zero” to more and more things
Missing the importance of tailoring exposures to the specific fear or feeling

Most importantly, I’ll share how to uncover the true root fear and ground zero behind OCD contamination, and why that shift changes how exposures are designed and carried out.

Resources mentioned during episode:

New Book: Chloe & The Bossy Cloud

Core Fear Series on Youtube

Core Fear Workshop

Contamination OCD videos for kids and teens

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0:00.0	Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD.
0:11.9	This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of a qualified professional.
0:18.4	Here's your host, child therapist, Natasha Daniels. Well, hello there,
0:23.1	and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. Today, we're going to be
0:28.3	talking all about contamination OCD. Contamination OCD is one of the most common OCD themes,
0:35.1	and it's also one of the most misunderstood. There is a missing component
0:40.9	that I have seen time and time again, both in the two decades I had a private practice.
0:47.8	And now in the global community that I help in my AT parenting community, this is often
0:52.9	the issue that I see when parents are trying to help their kids with
0:57.1	contamination OCD.
0:58.3	They're missing the mark.
1:00.2	We're going to talk all about what that mark is and how to not miss it because you may not
1:06.1	be making any progress because of this.
1:08.1	But before we dive into this today, I do want to thank NoCD for sponsoring
1:11.7	this episode. NoCD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy, and they're available in
1:17.6	the U.S. and outside the U.S. You can schedule your free 15-minute consultation to see if
1:24.1	no CD is a right fit for you and your child, just go to treat myoced.com.
1:29.4	That is treat myoced.com.
1:32.5	I'll leave a link in the show notes as well.
1:35.0	I also want to announce that I actually haven't even talked about this at all.
1:39.3	I have a new book coming out and it actually comes out on Thursday.
1:43.6	So I have not done a good job at discussing this. My new book coming out and it actually comes out on Thursday. So I have not done a good job at
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