AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety

If you’re raising a child or teen with OCD or anxiety, you’re in the right place.

Parenting a child with OCD can feel confusing, exhausting, and isolating, but you don’t have to figure it out alone. Each week, therapist Natasha Daniels shares practical, evidence-based strategies to help you understand how OCD and anxiety really work, respond in ways that support recovery, and feel more confident as a parent.

Whether your child struggles with contamination OCD, intrusive thoughts, reassurance seeking, perfectionism, moral OCD, social anxiety, panic, school refusal, or other anxiety-related challenges, you’ll learn realistic tools you can use at home right away.

Drawing from more than 20 years of clinical experience and her own journey parenting children with OCD and anxiety, Natasha breaks down complex topics into clear, compassionate guidance that parents can actually apply. Episodes cover OCD treatment, ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention), reducing family accommodation, managing meltdowns, supporting therapy, and navigating everyday challenges with confidence.

Whether you’re newly discovering that your child’s anxiety may actually be OCD, searching for better ways to help, or simply looking for reassurance that you’re not alone, this podcast is here to support you every step of the way.

Welcome to AT Parenting Survival: Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety.

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Episoder(508)

PSP: 262 The Wait-and-See Approach to Anxiety or OCD

How often do we hear from family, friends and even doctors that we should “wait and see” if it gets worse. We should wait and see if the anxiety or OCD grows bigger. We should wait and see if anxiety ...

17 Mai 202242min

PSP: 261 Helping Anxious Kids Try New Things with Dawn Huebner

Anxious kids often have a hard time trying new things. This might impact what they’ll eat, what activities they’ll try or how they feel about going to new places. It can permeate their lives in a way ...

10 Mai 202242min

PSP: 260 Handling Sexual Themes Around OCD

OCD can be stigmatizing enough, but when you add sexual themes it can add another layer of guilt and shame. It can also make parents and even therapists uncomfortable! How are you supposed to deal wit...

3 Mai 202249min

PSP: 259 Helping Kids with Fears of Animals & Insects with Dawn Huebner

Many kids have fears of animals and insects, but for some it can dominate their lives. They might worry about seeing the feared animal or insect. They might go out of their way to avoid an encounter. ...

26 Apr 202244min

PSP: 258 The Impact of Child Anxiety or OCD on Marriages

There are many things that can put a strain on marriages. Once the honeymoon is over it can be a struggle to agree on finances, household chores and parenting. When anxiety or OCD is in the mix it can...

19 Apr 202254min

PSP: 257 Helping Kids with “Pure O” and Mental Compulsions

Many kids have what some people call “pure O” or purely obsessional thoughts. But more often than not those obsessional thoughts are quieted by a menu of mental compulsions that go along with it. So w...

12 Apr 202249min

PSP: 256 How Anxiety & OCD Impact Tech Use

As parents, we all struggle with our children’s tech use. It seems like most kids have their heads buried in their phone, computer or game console. But what if it goes deeper? What if they are using t...

5 Apr 202251min

PSP 255 How to Handle New OCD Themes

OCD is often like whack a mole. Just when you get one OCD theme under control, BOOM, another one creeps in to take its place.This can be disheartening, especially if you don’t have the right mindset. ...

29 Mar 202258min