The Do’s and Don’ts of Pulling Back OCD Accommodations
AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
When your child struggles with OCD, it’s natural to want to ease their distress, but those well-meaning “helping” moments can actually feed OCD’s control. In this episode, Natasha breaks down how to pull back accommodations safely and effectively, without creating unnecessary conflict or fear.
You’ll learn:
- What OCD accommodations really are and how they sneak into daily routines
- Why reducing them helps your child gain long-term confidence
- How to involve your child in the process
- What to do (and not do) when emotions run high
- How to stay consistent and supportive as your child builds resilience
Pulling back OCD accommodations isn’t about being tough — it’s about helping your child take their power back from OCD, one small step at a time.
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Links mentioned in the show:
Get a PDF handout of today’s episode
SPACE Treatment Study Guide Course
Eli Lebowitz’s book Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD & Alec Pollard’s book When a Love On Won’t Seek Mental Health Treatment
SPACE Treatment website, Alec Pollard’s website, YouTube video on compulsive reassurance, YouTube video on compulsive confessing, Podcast on developing effective incentive plans
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| 0:00.0 | Before we dive into today's episode, I want to make sure that you know about something that could really change the way you support your child with OCD or anxiety. |
| 0:09.7 | I am once again running my free video series called survival tools for parents who are raising kids with anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:16.8 | And it is packed with practical concrete strategies and insights that I wish every single parent had. |
| 0:25.6 | You'll learn how to get your child to open up and communicate more. |
| 0:29.0 | You'll learn how to create exposures that they'll actually want to do. |
| 0:32.8 | And most importantly, regardless of whether they are willing or able to work on their anxiety or OCD, |
| 0:37.7 | you will learn how to build a home environment that supports them long term, so they can have |
| 0:43.6 | some long term progress and not just crisis management. This is the kind of information that's |
| 0:49.7 | hard to find unless you're deep in the trenches. And I want to make it accessible as possible. |
| 0:55.6 | And that is why you can register for free at ATParenting SurvivalSeries.com. This is by far my most |
| 1:01.7 | popular series and people come back over and over. So please join us again if you've done it before. |
| 1:07.1 | The series runs November 6th through the 14th, and you can join at any time during that period |
| 1:12.1 | because they are on-demand videos, and then I do bonus live videos as well. |
| 1:17.3 | So join us at AT Parenting Survival Series.com. |
| 1:21.3 | All right, let's get into today's episode. |
| 1:27.2 | Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD. |
| 1:36.1 | This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of a qualified professional. |
| 1:42.7 | Here's your host, child therapist, Natasha Daniels. |
| 1:47.0 | Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survile Podcast. |
| 1:52.3 | Today, we're going to be talking about one of the main things that we can do to help our kids with OCD |
| 1:57.6 | and one of the biggest struggles. |
| 2:03.2 | And that's how do you effectively pull back those OCD accommodations that most of us are doing in order to ensure your child's |
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