Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the

chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD.

This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of

a qualified professional.

Here's your host, Child Therapist Natasha Daniels.

Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.

Today we're going to be talking about the misconceptions that parents often have when they're

going or trying to find anxiety and OCD treatment for their kids, or whether they're already

in there, your expectations, you know, are they where they should be, or your conceptions

of what therapy should look like, are they accurate?

I'm excited that I am not going to be chatting to myself and to you and talking to the

wall.

I've actually invited two amazing therapists to join me in this discussion.

I reached out to anxiety specialists of Atlanta, and I talked to Dr. Josh Spatonic and Marty

Munford from his team, and they always have so much wisdom.

I've had Josh on my podcast, I think, a few times, and I love him.

I love his style.

I just think that he's just so down to earth and has a very nice, clean, simplistic way

of explaining things about anxiety and OCD and about kids.

He gets it.

He's a parent in the trenches, and I love when people have real life experience.

And I just met someone from his team, Marty Munford, who seems obviously whoever he's going

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