Hey guys and welcome to episode 202 of the OCD stories.com podcast. Now in this episode I interview

Dr Josh Botarnack. Josh is a licensed psychologist based in Atlanta and this is

the second time he's been on the show. And in this episode I wanted to get him on to talk specifically about O. C. D. and children and its treatment. So we cover a lot in this episode. So if you're a parent of a child

of O. C. D then hopefully you'll find this episode useful. So we talk about

his story of working with children, how I see may differ in children versus adults,

worry monsters working with the family, explaining ERP to a child, encouraging kids to do their CBT homework.

We talk about PANDAS, which is something I haven't necessarily talked about on this show before.

The key things families can consider when helping their child with

OCD, dealing with family conflict in recovery,

advice for parents,

and keeping a child motivated during treatment

and much, much more.

I really enjoy this episode hopefully you find it useful and

without further ado here is Josh. On the podcast today I'm joined by Dr. Josh Pitalnick Josh is a licensed psychologist owner and

clinical director the anxiety specialist of Atlanta and outpatient clinic

welcome back to the show Josh.

Pleasure to be back, Stu.

Thank you.

Yeah, that's good to have you back and the last episode we did was on health anxiety

and we got your kind of therapy story what got you into to treating a CD and anxiety

but now a slight different question for this episode which is why get into working and treating children?

Sure, so a little bit of a personal backstory.

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