You're listening to The OCD Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph.

The OCD 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 465 of the podcast.

And in this one, I chat with Molly Schiffer. Molly is a therapist and associate director at the Center for OCD and Anxiety at Shepherd Pratt. And in this episode, we discuss her therapy story,

cognitive processing therapy, or CPD for short, trauma, trauma,

CPD for trauma, how trauma can fuel the OCD, CPD helping exposure and response prevention therapy,

Bolly shares a clinical case example of CPT in action and much more.

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

And thank you to Molly for her time and expertise. I appreciate it.

And this episode we do explore trauma and OCD in a bit more detail and how trauma can sometimes

affect OCD therapy, such as exposure and response prevention therapy,

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