You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast hosted by me, Stuart Ralph.

The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding

around obsessive compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists,

psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories.

And welcome to episode 282. And in this episode it's a little different.

It's my first panel or round table podcast.

And basically that just means I have multiple guests on talking about one

particular topic and in this case it's about acceptance and commitment therapy for

OCD. So I interview Dr. Michael Tuig, a licensed psychologist and researcher, Dr.

Patricia Zerita owner, a clinical psychologist, and Johnny Say, an integrative counselor.

So they have two things in common,

or two obvious things in common.

One is they're all trained in Act,

and the other is that they've all been on the show before.

So if you want to find out more about them,

or their episodes, I'll put all the links and information in the show notes,

which you can find at the OCD stories.com.

But really, really interesting podcast, interesting for me to kind of take this different format.

I hope you guys find it useful.

So in it we talk about their backgrounds and what brought them into acceptance and commitment

therapy or act for short. Where act adds value to

OCD treatment, how they use act alongside exposure and response prevention therapy, we

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