Nathan Peterson - Doing an exposure (ERP) vs. being exposed (#292)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In episode 292 I interviewed Nathan Peterson. Nathan is an OCD specialist who practices in Allen, Texas. He works with OCD, anxiety, tics and Tourettes, and BFRB's such as hair pulling and skin picking. He has a YouTube channel where he posts weekly videos about OCD and other anxiety related disorders.
I chat with Nathan about his therapy journey, the difference between doing an exposure (ERP) vs. being exposed, examining the day ahead to find opportunities for proactive ERP and identifying compulsions, why it's important to actively do ERP vs being exposed, the importance of reducing compulsions to help our brains learn new information around the things we worry about, ideas for sticking to ERP homework, and much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.3 | The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding |
| 0:10.1 | around obsessive compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, |
| 0:15.2 | psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome to episode 292 and in this one I interviewed Nathan Peterson. |
| 0:27.0 | Nathan is an O. C. C. |
| 0:28.0 | A C. D. specialist and you may have seen his YouTube channel where he posts a lot of |
| 0:32.4 | content and videos about OCD. |
| 0:35.4 | And in the episode I talked to him about his therapy journey. |
| 0:38.8 | The difference between doing an exposure or ERP versus being exposed. We discuss examining the day ahead to find opportunities |
| 0:47.3 | for proactive ERP and identifying compulsions. Why it's important to actively do ERP versus being exposed, the importance of |
| 0:56.0 | reducing compulsions to help our brains learn new information around the things |
| 1:00.6 | we worry about, ideas for sticking to E.R.P. homework and much more. |
| 1:05.8 | And thanks always to NOCD for supporting the show. I deeply appreciate it. |
| 1:09.6 | If you want to find out more about an O. C.D. and their therapy services, head to go dot treat my |
| 1:15.5 | O.com forward slash the O. C. D stories or click the link in the episode description. |
| 1:21.2 | So thank you to Nathan for his time and of course to you guys. Thank you for |
| 1:25.0 | listening. I deeply appreciate it. About forever ado here is Nate. |
| 1:29.1 | Welcome to the show Nate. |
| 1:30.5 | Hey thank you so much. I'm so happy that I give this opportunity to talk to you today. |
| 1:38.0 | Yeah, it's really good to have you here. So yeah, it'd be great to hear your therapy journey so kind of what got you into being a therapist and then specifically working with OCD. |
| 1:49.0 | Yeah, so I my mom is actually a therapist. |
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