The OCD Stories

In episode 333 I chat with Dr Roberto Olivardia. Roberto is a Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Instructor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. He also maintains a private psychotherapy practice…

In episode 332 I chat with Kim and Jack Vincenty who have kindly agreed to share their story, from the perspective of mother and son. 

We discuss Jack’s story, Kim’s story as the parent, moral scrupu…

In this special midweek episode of the podcast which was recorded at the OCD in Society event recently. I chat with these 3 OCD advocates and artists about who they are, what their creative expressio…

In episode 331 I chat with Amanda who has kindly agreed to share her story. 

We talk about her story, growing up catholic, sexual intrusive thoughts, fears of sinning, seeking help from her priest, s…

In episode 330 I chat with Dr Amita Jassi. Amita is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the National and Specialist OCD, BDD and Related Disorder Service for Children and Young People (South London…

In episode 329 I chat Maya Tadross who has kindly agreed to share her story with us.

We discuss her OCD story, being in residential treatment, her experiences of exposure and response prevention ther…

In episode 328 I chat with Dr Russ Harris. Russ is a medical practitioner, author of the international best-selling self-help book ‘The Happiness Trap’ (as well as nine others), and is a world-renown…

In episode 327 I chat with Elise who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us. 

We discuss her story, her OCD themes, we chat about mental compulsions, compassion, the problem with comparing …

In episode 326 I chat with Geoff who has kindly agreed to share his OCD story with us. 

In this episode we discuss his OCD story, harm obsessions, postnatal harm obsessions, working through grief for…

In episode 325 I chat with Jessica Serber. Jessica is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist as well as the founder of Mindful CBT California.

In this episode we discuss her therapy story, being a …

In episode 324 I chat with Pamela who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us. 

We discuss her OCD story, stress in childhood, growing up in a religious upbringing, getting a diagnosis, tric…

In episode 323 I chat with Meredith who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us. 

We discuss her OCD story, sexual orientation theme, medication, the tough time she had going to a general in…

In episode 322 I chat with Dr Clarissa Ong, and Dr Michael Twohig. Clarissa obtained her Ph.D. in Clinical/Counselling Psychology at Utah State University and is currently completing her post-doctora…

In episode 321 I chat with Jenna Overbaugh. Jenna is a therapist who specialises in OCD, and is the clinical marketing director over at NOCD. 

We discuss Jenna’s OCD story, postpartum OCD, how the US…

In episode 320 I chat with Alexandra Reynolds who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us. 

We discuss her story, themes: contamination, relationship, health and taboo, we talk about her exp…

In episode 319 I chat with Taylor Glendenning who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us. 

We discuss her story, hit and run themed OCD, her other themes including violence and harm, some o…

In episode 318 therapist Jonny Say interviews Stuart about his OCD research. Stuart's research used data from the University of Roehampton’s ETHOS project.

We discuss the motivation for this research…

In episode 317 I chat with Sheryl Paul and Sheva Rajaee. Sheryl is a counselor informed by Jungian depth psychology, and author of the book The wisdom of anxiety. Sheva is a psychotherapist who speci…

In episode 316 I chat with Dr Sophie Suri who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us. 

We discuss her OCD story, trauma from the loss of her parents, health and harm themes, starting therap…

In episode 315 I chat with Annie Anderson who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us. 

We discuss her OCD story, relationship OCD, we discuss her religion (The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat…