PSP 371: Boosting Self-Esteem During Anxiety and OCD Struggles

PSP 371: Boosting Self-Esteem During Anxiety and OCD Struggles

Anxiety and OCD can rob our kids of so many things, including their self-esteem and self-worth. It is easy for them to feel hard on themselves when their anxiety or OCD is knocking them down. Often kids are extra hard on themselves during these times.

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PSP 368: Why OCD Can Get Worse with the Wrong Therapist 

PSP 368: Why OCD Can Get Worse with the Wrong Therapist 

When you bring your child to a cardiologist, you expect they know all the evidence based treatment interventions to help your child. When you bring them to an endocrinologist you assume they are an expert in all things endocrinology.

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When OCD is Bothering Your Child What Should They Do?

When OCD is Bothering Your Child What Should They Do?

Your kids have a predictable relationship with OCD. OCD gives them an intrusive thought or feeling and they do their part in responding. A key part in getting OCD relief is disrupting this predictable OCD loop. In this week’s Youtube video, I’ll teach them how to disrupt OCD compulsions to throw OCD off-kilter and start taking their life back.

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PSP 311: Improving Executive Functioning in Kids with Anxiety or OCD

PSP 311: Improving Executive Functioning in Kids with Anxiety or OCD

Anxiety and OCD can impact executive functioning in so many different ways. When our children are being bombarded with upsetting thoughts, executive functioning skills can go out the window. In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I invited Rachel Kapp and Stephanie Pitts, educational therapists and the hosts of the Learn Smarter Podcast, to discuss ways we can help our kids improve their executive functioning skills.

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