Dr Steven Phillipson and Sean: 'Sarnos' and Sean's story (#533)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In episode 533 I chat with Dr Steven Phillipson and his patient Sean. Steven is a licensed clinical psychologist who specialises in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for OCD. Steven is the Clinical Director at the Center for Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy in New York. He is joined by one of his patients, Sean, who has kindly agreed to share his story.
We discuss Sean's OCD story, Steve discusses the idea of Sarnos (psychosomatic symptoms), Sean's difficulty bragging and worrying about Sarnos, exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), the idea of the brain voice and the gatekeeper voice, and much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The OCD Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.5 | The OCD Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding around obsessive, |
| 0:11.1 | compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, psychologists, and people |
| 0:16.8 | who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD Stories. |
| 0:25.3 | And welcome to episode 533 of the podcast. |
| 0:30.1 | And in this one, I chat with Dr. Stephen Philipson and one of his patients, Sean. |
| 0:36.1 | Steve is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy for OCD. |
| 0:57.4 | He is a clinical director at the Center for Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy in New York, and he is joined by one of his patients, Sean, who has kindly agreed to share his story with us. So in particular, we talk about Sean's story. We discuss the idea of Sarno's. So Sarno's of psychosomatic symptoms and now Sean's OCD latched onto this idea of sarno's. |
| 1:05.7 | Sean's difficulty bragging, exposure response prevention therapy, the idea of the brain voice and the gatekeeper voice and much more. |
| 1:08.4 | And thanks to our podcast partners, no CD. |
| 1:11.3 | If OCD is interfering with your life, |
| 1:12.6 | no CD can help. |
| 1:14.4 | They're licensed therapists, |
| 1:17.3 | specialize in exposure and response prevention therapy, |
| 1:19.4 | the most proven therapy for OCD. |
| 1:23.3 | With no CD, effective treatment that is 100% virtual, |
| 1:25.9 | is available for children and adults with OCD. |
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| 1:33.9 | No hassle, just real, science-backed help and support between sessions. |
| 1:38.8 | Begin your journey at nocd.com or I'll put the link in the episode description. |
| 1:41.3 | So thank you so much to you guys for listening as always. |
| 1:42.3 | It does mean a lot. |
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