You're listening to The OCD Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph.

The OCD 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 527 of the podcast.

And in this one, I interview Ethan Tuchienza. And Ethan, apologies if I've just butchered your surname, but I think I may have nailed it. Ethan is a licensed clinical

social worker and clinical director of the behavioral psych studios LA office.

In this, we discuss his therapy story, dialectical behavior therapy or DBT for short,

exposure and response prevention therapy, exposure to emotions, the intervention, DBT-Ptacetst, trauma, shame, tolerating emotions.

He shares a couple of DBT skills, including willing hands and mindfulness of our emotions.

We also discuss guilt, shutting down during exposures and what to do, and much more.

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link in the episode description. So thank you so much to Ethan for his

time and expertise. It was really nice to meet him and talking with him. And thank you to you guys

for listening as always. I'm about for a redo. Here is Ethan. Welcome to the podcast, Ethan.

Hi. Thanks for having me. I really appreciate it. Yeah, it's good to have you on. So, before we get into today's topic, it'll be good to hear about your story, if you have one, why I become a therapist and specifically for OCD?

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