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 to Stuart Ralph

from the OCD stories.

I had a great conversation with him. We talk about O. C. D. Therapy for kids and teens, what that looks like, how it looks different than when we're treating adults, things that parents can look for in therapy.

We talk about his journey from having a successful podcast, the OCD stories, and I think learning so much interviewing all these experts

and researchers and people with lived experience with anxiety and OCD, and then getting

his degree and creating his own practice and that journey of going

from his own struggles with OCD. We actually didn't even touch on that in this episode,

which we should have.

His own struggles should have brought that up.

And then his evolution into learning and being an advocate and a platform for people with

OCD and therapists who treat OCD and then moving

into that professional realm of practicing and then creating his own rather

large practice,

treating children and teens and young adults

with anxiety, OCD and other issues as well.

And we touch on the struggles in particular that people in the UK experience and he offered some really helpful tips that I was not aware of as far as how to navigate those systems and we talk about his

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