You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast hosted by me, Stuart Ralph.

The O. C. D. 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.

So welcome to episode to episode 283 and in this episode I interviewed

Nate Gruna.

Nate is a staff behavioral therapist at the McLean OCD Institute.

And in this episode we talk about his therapy story,

we talk about functional analytic psychotherapy,

or FAP for short, we talk about the interpersonal aspects of therapy, the importance of the therapeutic relationship,

how FAP can be useful for OCD.

He gives client in session examples, using FAP, Act and ERP together, doing exposures to build intimacy, we discuss clinically relevant

behaviors and much, much more different episode, really interesting, I think you're going to get a lot out of it.

And thanks to NoCD for supporting the show.

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They now operate in the US, UK and Australia. their everyday life for people with O. C.

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To find out more, head to go dot treat my O.CD.com forward slash the O. C.D stories.

I'll click the link in the episode description.

As always, thank you to you guys for listening.

I deeply appreciate it.

And without forever ado, here is Nate.

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