PSP 363: The Importance of Finding the Right Therapy for OCD | One Family’s Journey
AT Parenting Survival Podcast: Parenting | Child Anxiety | Child OCD | Kids & Family
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
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🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The wrong therapist can wreak havoc on a children’s OCD. That is why it is so important for parents to understand what are evidenced-based approaches specifically for OCD. It is also key to have the skills to decipher a qualified therapist from a non-qualified therapist.
When Eve started having intrusive thoughts, she privately went to google to figure out what was going on. Fortunately for Eve she stumbled upon the right sites that helped her understand her thoughts were OCD. Many families aren’t so lucky, especially when it involves OCD themes like sexual orientation or harm to self or others.
Even though Eve properly identified her struggles as OCD, it still took several therapists to find a qualified one that would help her make progress. Her father wasn’t so lucky. He had the same OCD themes in college and had little success from a general therapist, never knowing it was OCD until his daughter had the same theme.
In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk to Eve and her father Jon, as they share their struggles, their journey to find the right therapist and their bond through it all.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the |
| 0:08.2 | Chaos of Parenting a Child with Anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:12.1 | This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to |
| 0:15.3 | replace the guidance of a qualified professional. Here's your host, child therapist Natasha Daniels. |
| 0:22.3 | Well, hello there and welcome to another episode |
| 0:24.6 | of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. |
| 0:27.5 | Today I want to talk to you about the importance |
| 0:29.3 | of finding the right therapy for OCD. |
| 0:33.0 | And really more than any other disorder, |
| 0:37.0 | OCD is very unique in that it requires a very specific type of therapy and approach that isn't really taught in |
| 0:48.0 | graduate programs. I have no idea why OCD is so like barely touched in graduate school it's really unfair and horrible but |
| 0:55.7 | therapists have to go out and get their own training typically there are some |
| 0:59.7 | graduate programs that have a great ERP program but not typically and so as a parent we have to do our |
| 1:07.5 | due diligence to really research what are the appropriate evidence-based |
| 1:11.8 | approaches for OCD, |
| 1:13.0 | how do I spot this in a therapist, |
| 1:15.3 | and how do I get that treatment for my child? |
| 1:17.6 | And so I do have this amazing family that |
| 1:21.5 | was brave enough to come on to the podcast today and talk about their experience with |
| 1:25.9 | OCD, their experience in finding treatment, going through several therapists before they can |
| 1:31.0 | find that right, the right treatment and luckily they knew what they were |
| 1:34.0 | looking for on some level they knew that they at least were dealing with OCD and that was fortunate because a lot of people |
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