The OCD Stories
Welcome to The OCD Stories, hosted by Stuart Ralph. The podcast has been heard over 7million times globally. Check out your first episode from our existing hundreds of episodes featuring experts, and people experiencing symptoms just like you today. If you do, you may just feel understood, heard and possibly help you identify your next step in your own personal journey to healing.
Disclaimer - this podcast is not a replacement for therapy. Please seek treatment from a licensed mental health professional.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 512
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Story: Rebekah Collins (Contamination & harm OCD, PMDD, advocacy) (#482)
In episode 482 I chat with Rebekah who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us.
We discuss her early compulsions, trauma, an eating disorder, social anxiety and depression, agoraphobia, pan…
Story: Zoey (Fears of choking, obsessing over partners porn use, BDD) (#481)
In episode 481 I chat with Zoey who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us.
We discuss fears of choking and swallowing, obsessing over her partners porn use, therapy, exposure and response…
Chrissie Hodges: Advocating for taboo OCD themes (#480)
In episode 480 I chat with Chrissie Hodges. Chrissie is a Peer Support specialist, founder of OCD Gamechangers, and Author of ‘Pure OCD: The Invisible Side of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder’. Chrissie…
Jonny Say: Ideas for when people struggle with therapy for OCD (#479)
In episode 479 I chat with Jonny Say. Jonny is a UK based therapist and co-director at The Integrative Centre for OCD Therapy.
We discuss an update on him, we talk about ideas for when people strugg…
Dr Josh Spitalnick: Health Anxiety, and living life well (#478)
In episode 478 I chat with Dr Josh Spitalnick. Josh is a licensed psychologist, owner and clinical director at the Anxiety Specialists of Atlanta, an outpatient clinic. He is co-author of “The Comple…
Story: Jakob (Panic, derealisation, the fear of ‘going crazy’, existential OCD) (#477)
In episode 477 I chat with Jakob who has kindly agreed to share his OCD story with us.
We discuss his story, panic, derealisation, the fear of ‘going crazy’, existential OCD, his advocacy work, expo…
Story: Megan (Worries of choking, health anxiety, existential and religious OCD) (#476)
In episode 476 I chat with Megan who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us.
We discuss her story, worries of choking, hyperawareness of swallowing, her compulsions, other themes including…
Nate Gruner and Meaghan Cleary: Functional Analytic Psychotherapy for OCD (#475)
In episode 475 I chat with Nate Gruner and Meaghan Cleary. Nate is a staff behavioural therapist at the obsessive-compulsive disorder institute at McLean hospital. Meaghan is a licensed mental health…
Catherine Goldhouse: I-CBT, feared self, and understanding inferential confusion (#474)
In episode 474 I chat with Catherine Goldhouse. Catherine is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) who specialises in anxiety, OCD, and relationships.
We discuss Catherine’s OCD stor…
Stephen Smith share’s NOCD’s story (#473)
In episode 473 I chat Stephen Smith. Stephen is the Cofounder and CEO of NOCD.
Stephen shares his OCD story, the story of NOCD, the ups and downs of getting it to where it is today, the commitment f…
Stories: Nick Sireau & Margherita Zenoni (& Orchard OCD) (#472)
In episode 472 I chat with Nick Sireau and Margherita Zenoni about their stories. Nick founded Orchard OCD a not-for-profit for advancing global OCD research, and Margherita manages the communication…
Story (and therapist): Bronwyn Shroyer (OCD, PTSD, EMDR, I-CBT) (#471)
In episode 471 I chat with Bronwyn Shroyer. Bronwyn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who specialises in two treatment areas: OCD and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Bronwyn has lived exper…
Dr Steven Phillipson: The treatment of children and adolescents (9-25) with OCD (#470)
In episode 470 I chat with Dr Steven Phillipson. Steven is a licensed clinical psychologist who specialises in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for OCD. Steven is the Clinical Director at the Center for …
Story: Rachael (harm OCD, postpartum OCD, fears of developing psychosis, health anxiety, existential OCD) (#469)
In episode 469 I chat with Rachael who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us.
We discuss OCD themes including harm, postnatal fears of developing psychosis, existential, religious, and he…
Emily Hemendinger: OCD and pets (#468)
In episode 468 I chat with Emily Hemendinger. Emily is clinical director of the OCD Program at the University of Colorado Health Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic.
We discuss what Emily has been up to, t…
Jonny Say: Understanding and practicing ACT skills (Therapist’s perspective – part 2) (#467)
In episode 467 I chat with Jonny Say who offers the therapist’s perspective to Jack’s episode last week titled: Understanding and practicing ACT skills (Client’s perspective). Jonny is a therapist an…
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Jack: Understanding and practicing ACT skills (Client’s perspective - part 1) (#466)
In episode 466 I chat with Jack who came back on to talk about his approach to learning ACT skills and practising them between his therapy sessions.
We discuss his therapy including exposure and resp…
Molly Schiffer: Using cognitive processing therapy for trauma that interferes with OCD therapy (#465)
In episode 465 I chat with Molly Schiffer (LCPC). Molly is a therapist and associate director at The Center for OCD and Anxiety at Sheppard Pratt.
We discuss her therapy story, cognitive processing …
Story: Carey Marie (magical thinking, BDD, existential OCD) (#464)
In episode 464 I chat with Carey who has kindly agreed to share her OCD story with us.
We discuss her OCD story, magical thinking, body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), fears around medication, feelings o…