PSP 219: How to Help a Child with Both Autism and OCD

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety

Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent

Anxiety, Ocd Therapy, Child Anxiety, Child Ocd, Kids & Family, Ocd, Health & Fitness, Ocd In Children, Parenting, Mental Health

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🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Many parents who are raising children with both Autism and OCD find themselves in a no man’s land of sorts. Professionals treating Autism don’t always understand OCD and those treating OCD don’t always understand Autism. Ugh. What a struggle.

That is why talking to Dr. Rebecca Sachs is like talking to a rare unicorn. Her practice, CBT Spectrum specializes in both and her knowledge runs deep!

I invited her on to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast to answer the most common questions I get from parents who are navigating both these words simultaneously.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through
0:08.1	the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD.
0:12.1	This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of
0:16.5	a qualified professional.
0:18.0	Here's your host, Child Therapist Natasha Daniels.
0:22.1	Well, hello there and welcome to our episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.
0:29.2	Hope you're doing okay today, I'm hanging in there.
0:32.9	And I had a really good discussion with Dr. Rebecca Sachs today.
0:36.8	I think you're going to really enjoy this episode.
0:39.0	I love talking to her.
0:41.0	She has such a good way of explaining things in a really, and obviously it's probably because
0:47.2	she's really good therapist.
0:48.6	But today is an important topic, let me back up.
0:51.4	We're going to be talking about autism and autism spectrum issues and OCD and a lot of
0:58.4	parents out there are finding that they are in no man's land when it comes to dealing
1:03.9	with their child's OCD and autism, because those are two often very separate worlds.
1:10.5	You have your professionals who are in the autism world, who know how to treat autism,
1:16.1	know how to talk and educate you about autism, and then you have the OCD world, which knows
1:20.6	about OCD, can talk about OCD and how to treat it, and unfortunately often there's no overlap.
1:27.2	And if there is an overlap, sometimes you might get an OCD therapist who doesn't really
1:31.6	fully understand the autism spectrum issues that are there, might see everything as OCD.
1:38.1	And you might get someone in the autism world who really doesn't understand OCD and will
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