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: Sara (#388)
In episode 388 I chat with Sara who has kindly shared her story with us.
We discuss her story, themes of OCD: sexual orientation, harm, existential, and relationship. We talk about panic disorder, d…
Dr Katia Moritz and Dr Jonathan Hoffman: Cracking the nut (case)
In this midweek special episode I chat with Dr Jonathan Hoffman and Dr Katia Moritz of the Neurobehavioral Institute (NBI) in Florida.
We discuss the analogy Cracking the nut, who cracks the nut (ca…
Emily Hemendinger: Executive functioning, and decision making in OCD (#387)
In episode 387 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’s new with her, what is…
Kelley Franke: OCD Story, and being a therapist (#386)
In episode 386 I chat with Kelley Franke. Kelley is Licensed Marriage and Family therapist and founder of the Center for OCD.
We discuss Kelley’s OCD story, experiencing 3 major deaths in a short pe…
Madelaine Sanfilippo: Group Therapy for OCD (#385)
In episode 385 I chat with Madelaine Sanfilippo. Madelaine is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist in the state of California and Head of Groups at The Center for Anxiety and OCD.
We discuss her …
Dr Steven Phillipson: Living within the variability of being human, being centred, autonomy, and assertiveness in relation to OCD (#384)
In episode 383 I chat with Dr Steven Phillipson. Steven is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for OCD. Steven is the Clinical Director at the Center for …
Ethan Smith, Kyle King, and Dr Katia Moritz: Client and Therapist Perspectives of Two OCD Stories
In this midweek special episode I chat with Dr Katia Moritz of the Neurobehavioral Institute (NBI) in Florida, and advocates Ethan Smith and Kyle King.
In this episode we discuss Ethan and Kyle’s OC…
Story: Reed Amber (#383)
In episode 383 I chat with Reed Amber who has kindly shared her story with us. Reed is a Sex Educator, Sex Worker and co-founder of ComeCurious and host of the award-winning F**ks Given podcast.
We …
Professor David Veale and Dr Rob Willson: Overcoming Health Anxiety (#382)
In episode 382 I chat with Professor David Veale and Dr Rob Willson (PhD). David is a consultant psychiatrist specialising in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Rob is a Cognitive Behaviour Therap…
Rich Gallagher: Disgust-Based OCD (#281)
In episode 381 I chat with Rich Gallagher. Rich is a therapist (LMFT) based in Ithaca, NY. He is the author of numerous self-help books including The Anxiety Journal (Rockridge Press, 2022), Stress-F…
Dr Sam Greenblatt: What can therapy change? (#380)
In episode 380 I chat with Dr Sam Greenblatt. Sam is a licensed clinical psychologist.
We discuss what is new with him, OCD metaphors, what therapy for OCD can change, the difference between pain an…
Nate Gruner: Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) for OCD (#379)
In episode 379 I chat with Nate Gruner. Nate is a staff Behavioral Therapist at McLean OCD institute.
I chat with Nate about functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP), the history of FAP, what is FAP,…
Dr Jonathan Hoffman and Dr Katia Moritz: How the sausage is made - Behind the scenes of an OCD treatment centre
In this midweek special episode I chat with Dr Jonathan Hoffman and Dr Katia Moritz of the Neurobehavioral Institute (NBI) in Florida.
In this episode we discuss what goes on behind the scenes of an…
Eva Surawy Stepney: The history of intrusive thoughts (#378)
In episode 378 I chat with Eva Surawy Stepney. Eva is a research student studying for her PhD at the University of Sheffield. Her thesis title is, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and the foundati…
Mike Heady: Inference-based Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (I-CBT) (#377)
In episode 377 I chat with Mike Heady. Mike (LCPC) is the Co-Owner & Co-Director of the Anxiety and Stress Disorders Institute of Maryland where he has specialized in the treatment of OCD, anxiety di…
Story: Ellen (#376)
In episode 376 I chat with Ellen who has kindly shared her story with us.
We discuss pocd, intrusive thoughts, self harm, experiencing sexual abuse as a child, going to inpatient and residential tre…
Dr Steven Phillipson: All spikes are created equal, however… (#375)
In episode 375 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 …
Dr Jonathan Hoffman and Dr Dee Franklin: Are Eating Disorders Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
In this midweek special episode I chat with Dr Jonathan Hoffman and Dr Dee Franklin of the Neurobehavioral Institute (NBI) in Florida.
In this episode we discuss what are eating disorders, are eatin…
Dr Jeremy Peterman: Emetophobia (#374)
In episode 374 I chat with Dr Jeremy Peterman. Jeremy is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and co-director at the Marin center for anxiety and behavioral therapy.
We discuss what is emetophobia, phob…
Story: SJ (#373)
In episode 373 I chat with SJ who has kindly shared their story with us.
We discuss their early OCD experiences, nightmares, SJ details many of their compulsions including praying, counting, organis…