Hey guys and welcome to episode 168 of the OCT stories.com podcast.

In this episode I interview therapist Karina Dash.

She's licensed in states Colorado and Florida.

And in this episode we talk about her therapy story how she applies

exposure therapy in her own life advice for someone starting ARP staying

consistent with exposure therapy after treatment,

dealing with difficult emotions,

acknowledging your progress, living with uncertainty,

creative exposure exercises,

and I ask her what is parent training so we talk about support groups

being in nature and much much more so I think you're gonna enjoy this episode

Green is lovely and I had a good conversation with her so hope you find it useful.

So without further ado here is Karina.

On the podcast today I have Karina Dash. Karina is a licensed therapist in Colorado and Florida. I had the

privilege of meeting her at the ACD Game Changes event in Denver recently and

welcome to the show Karina. Thank you so much for having me it's a pleasure to be here it's

good to get you on and and as I always start with with therapists is well if you

have an ICD story or a mental health story feel free to share that if you have an O. C.D. story or a mental health story, feel free to share that if you want.

If not, it'd be good to just know your therapy story, how you got into it and why you ended up working with people

with O. C. D. Yeah, it's a great question. I wish I had a more exciting answer. As a graduate

student I did my internship at a hospital and that was when I was introduced to OCD. And the more I learned about the

condition and how it presented, the more interested I became and the more I

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