You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph.

The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding

around obsessive compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists,

psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories.

And welcome to episode 442 of the podcast and in this one I am the

guest. My good friend and colleague Johnny Say is interviewing me on this episode where he's asking me

questions about my work as a therapist with children and young people and in

particular we talk about adapting exposure response prevention therapy and

acceptance to commitment therapy for children and teens of OCD.

The other therapies I integrate self-compassion how parents can help their children with OCD, what I would tell my younger

self and much more.

So I enjoy chatting with Johnny, he's a good host, hope you guys enjoy it too, and enjoy hearing a bit more about how I practice as a therapist.

And thank you to No CD for supporting the podcast. No CD offers effective and convenient therapy

available in the US and outside the US.

To find out more about an OCD, their therapy plans, if they currently take your insurance,

or to download their free app, head to go.treat my.com forward slash the OCD stories or the link

will be in the episode description. Thank you to all of our patrons for supporting

our work to sign up to our patron and to check out the other benefits you'll receive as a patron,

please see the link in the show notes.

So thank you to you guys as always for listening. It means a lot.

And of course thank you to Johnny for his time interviewing me. I deeply appreciate it

And without further do here I am so Stu I think it'd be great to hear a little bit about where you are in your life and what's going on just now and anything you want to say about your recovery work as well. I think the listeners would be very interested.

...