Jonny Say and Stuart Ralph role-play a key ACT skill for rumination (#518)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In episode 518 Jonny Say and I practiced some Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) skills together. Jonny is a UK based therapist and co-director at The Integrative Centre for OCD Therapy.
We discuss the skill dropping anchor, how the skill dipping in and out of the stream can help us learn how to deal with rumination, Jonny and I role play a client session using dipping in and out of the stream, and much more. Hope it helps.
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Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/jonny-stu-518
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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. |
| 0:12.8 | I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, psychologists, and people who have experienced OCD. |
| 0:18.9 | Welcome to the OCD Stories. |
| 0:21.6 | And welcome to episode 518 of the podcast. |
| 0:25.1 | And in this one, Johnny and I practice some acceptance and commitment therapy skills together. |
| 0:30.8 | So it's kind of a joint podcast. |
| 0:32.8 | Johnny is a UK-based therapist and co-director at the Interactive Center for OCD Therapy. |
| 0:38.8 | In January, Johnny and I are running an act skills training for therapists. |
| 0:43.9 | So I'll put a link in the show notes if you want to check that out if you are a therapist. |
| 0:47.8 | But as we were planning for this episode before actually, a couple of the skills would be really |
| 0:52.3 | good to cover for the listeners in my podcast. |
| 0:54.5 | So here it is. |
| 0:55.7 | And in particular, we talk about the skill dropping anchor. |
| 0:58.7 | How the skill dipping in and out of the stream can help us learn how to deal with rumination. |
| 1:03.1 | Johnny and I roleplay a client session using dipping in and out of the stream and much more. |
| 1:08.4 | So hopefully the role plays sort of a new addition to the podcast. Hopefully |
| 1:12.7 | that's interesting. But yeah, these skills are important to Johnny and I and our therapeutic work and |
| 1:18.3 | we hope they help you in some way. And thanks to our podcast partners, no CD. If OCD is interfering |
| 1:24.6 | with your life, no CD can help. They're licensed therapists, specialise in exposure and response prevention therapy, |
| 1:31.8 | the most proven therapy for OCD. |
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