Hey guys and welcome to episode 221 of the OCD Stories.com Podcast.

Now in this episode I got back on Dr Stephen Philipson.

Now if you listen to the podcast for a while, you should be very familiar with his work on this show

and his work generally.

Stephen is a licensed clinical psychologist who specialises in CBT therapy for OCD.

Now I got Stephen on this episode to talk about the Therapeutic relationship, also called the

the therapeutic alliance.

The therapeutic relationship is something

that has been written about and studied

for many, many years.

Is often seen as the bedrock of all therapies.

Is that connection that two people will have

sitting in a room or over a video connection

in the case of telehealth and how that relationship in itself is healing

or conducive to delivering whatever therapy, modality in this case CBT.

So I wanted to discuss it because of that because it is so important to all different therapies

and it is important to delivering CBT is having that

connection with your therapist or the therapist with the client having a strong

connection a strong bond that can help the CBT be delivered in a way that the

client can get the most out of that CBT and the relationship.

So there are many ways and if I were to talk with different

therapists they would have their own examples and insights to bring about the

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