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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How to Support Your Child with OCD Without Losing the Rest of Your Family
Tuesday, November 10, 2026 • Duration 42:04
When your child is struggling with OCD, it can start to shape the routines, decisions, and emotional energy of the whole family. You want to help your child, but you also want your family to have room for connection, joy, and the ordinary parts of life.
In this episode, I’m talking about how parents can begin to make that room again while still supporting a child with OCD. You don’t have to change everything at once. Finding one manageable place to start can help your family move forward.
If you’re looking for support with that first step, register for my free AT Parenting Survival Series. I’ll teach you how to create a therapeutic home environment.
This podcast episode is sponsored by NOCD. NOCD provides online OCD therapy in the US, UK, Australia and Canada. To schedule your free 15 minute consultation to see if NOCD is a right fit for you and your child, go to
The First Step in Helping Your Child With OCD May Not Be Therapy
Tuesday, November 3, 2026 • Duration 44:47
When our kids start struggling with OCD it is normal to want to get them into therapy as soon as possible, especially Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) therapy, the first line treatment for OCD.
But going into therapy when a child isn’t ready can be a costly mistake and can sabotage the success of future therapy sessions.
In this episode I outline four key components needed to make therapy a success. Often therapy is a middle step, not the first step.
Want to know exactly where YOU should start? In my free series, Survival Tools for Parents Raising Kids with OCD, I teach you how to assess your particular situation and learn where to focus your energy to get the most long term success.
This podcast episode is sponsored by NOCD. NOCD provides online OCD therapy in the US, UK, Australia and Canada. To schedule your free 15 minute consultation to see if NOCD is a right fit for you and your child, go to
This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be used to replace the guidance of a qualified professional.
Parents, do you need more support?
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Moral OCD: What to Do When Your Child Keeps Confessing
Tuesday, October 27, 2026 • Duration 51:03
When a child with moral OCD keeps confessing, even small or uncertain things can start to feel like evidence that they’ve done something wrong. They may feel driven to tell a parent every detail, ask whether they’re a good person, or keep revisiting something they said or did until it feels settled. To a parent, it can be difficult to tell where a child’s conscience ends and OCD’s demand for certainty begins.
The urge to confess can bring brief relief, but it often leaves the child needing to confess again the next time doubt shows up. Parents can feel caught between wanting to comfort their child and not wanting to strengthen that cycle. This episode explores how to meet that challenge with compassion while helping a child make room for uncertainty and move forward without waiting to feel completely sure.
Parenting kids with OCD can be tough. Especially since much of how to navigate OCD is counterintuitive.
After over two decades supporting parents raising kids, teens and young adults with OCD, I have consistently seen a pattern in what parents get wrong about OCD.
In this episode I break down the six most common things parents get wrong, that delay long-term progress and keep families stuck.
This podcast episode is sponsored by NOCD. NOCD provides online OCD therapy in the US, UK, Australia and Canada. To schedule your free 15 minute consultation to see if NOCD is a right fit for you and your child, go to
Six Parenting Struggles No One Talks About When Your Child Has OCD
Tuesday, October 13, 2026 • Duration 50:52
Parenting a child with OCD can feel lonely in ways people don’t always understand. Even when you know what OCD is, know what you’re supposed to do, and are doing everything you can to help, there are parts of this experience that can feel overwhelming, confusing, and incredibly hard to talk about.
In this episode, I’m getting into some of the parenting struggles that often happen behind closed doors when your child has OCD — the parts that don’t always make it into books, treatment plans, or conversations with other parents. If raising a child with OCD has ever left you thinking, “Surely I’m not the only parent dealing with this,” this episode will help you feel a lot less alone.
This podcast episode is sponsored by NOCD. NOCD provides online OCD therapy in the US, UK, Australia and Canada. To schedule your free 15 minute consultation to see if NOCD is a right fit for you and your child, go to
Why Doing the Right Thing for Your Child’s OCD Can Feel So Wrong
Tuesday, October 6, 2026 • Duration 41:38
Sometimes doing the right thing for your child’s OCD can feel completely wrong.
When you start pulling back accommodations, your child may actually become more distressed, irritable, or angry. That can leave you wondering: Am I helping, or am I making this worse?
In this week’s episode, I talk about why things can get harder when you stop participating in OCD, what that increased distress actually means, and how to support your child without accidentally getting pulled right back into the OCD cycle.
This podcast episode is sponsored by NOCD. NOCD provides online OCD therapy in the US, UK, Australia and Canada. To schedule your free 15 minute consultation to see if NOCD is a right fit for you and your child, go to
Maybe they can go to school, visit friends, or function fairly well outside the house, but the second they get home, OCD seems to take over. That can leave parents wondering why the rules, avoidance, contamination fears, or compulsions seem so much stronger in one environment than another.
In this episode, I explain some of the reasons OCD can look different at home, including why home may become a “safer” place for compulsions, how contamination chains can build up over time, and why certain family members or spaces can become incorporated into OCD’s rules. I also talk about what can happen when families start believing that changing locations will solve the problem—and why OCD often finds a way to come along for the ride.
If you’ve ever wondered, “Why is their OCD so much worse here?” this episode will help you understand what may be going on beneath the surface and what to do about it.
This podcast episode is sponsored by NOCD. NOCD provides online OCD therapy in the US, UK, Australia and Canada. To schedule your free 15 minute consultation to see if NOCD is a right fit for you and your child, go to
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Understanding Your Child’s Sensory Needs with Laura Petix
Tuesday, September 22, 2026 • Duration 51:04
If your child seems to have big reactions to sounds, textures, clothing, food, transitions, or everyday experiences, sensory processing may be playing a bigger role than you realize.
In this episode, I’m joined by occupational therapist Laura Petix, from The OT Butterfly and author of The Sensory Code.
We talk about how parents can better understand their child’s unique sensory needs, recognize what may be happening underneath challenging behavior and big emotions, and respond with more empathy and less frustration.
Laura also shares practical ways we as parents can help accommodate our child’s sensory issues while empowering them to help themselves.
When you pre-order, you’ll also receive three special bonuses from Laura.
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This podcast episode is sponsored by NOCD. NOCD provides online OCD therapy in the US, UK, Australia and Canada. To schedule your free 15 minute consultation to see if NOCD is a right fit for you and your child, go to
How Parents Can Cope While Raising a Child With Anxiety or OCD with Janine Halloran
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 • Duration 51:30
When you’re raising a child with anxiety or OCD, so much of your energy can go toward helping them cope that it’s easy to forget that you need coping skills too.
We talk about what it looks like to take care of yourself when parenting feels stressful, overwhelming, or emotionally exhausting, and why the coping strategies that work for one person may not work for another.
If you spend a lot of time thinking about what your child needs but rarely stop to think about what helps you regulate, recharge, and keep going, this conversation is for you.
This podcast episode is sponsored by NOCD. NOCD provides online OCD therapy in the US, UK, Australia and Canada. To schedule your free 15 minute consultation to see if NOCD is a right fit for you and your child, go to
This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be used to replace the guidance of a qualified professional.
Parents, do you need more support?
🌸 Here’s are resources I offer parents 👇🏻❤️
The Three Skills I Wish Everyone With OCD Knew
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 • Duration 44:07
If I could sit down with every person who has OCD and teach them just three skills, these are the ones I would choose.
In this episode, I’m sharing the three skills I come back to again and again when helping people change their relationship with OCD. They’re simple concepts, but learning how to actually use them when OCD is loud, convincing, and demanding is another story.
I’ll talk about why these skills matter, how they work together, and why you don’t have to feel confident or ready before you start practicing them.
These ideas are also at the heart of my new book, where I break down OCD recovery in a practical, easy-to-understand way without getting lost in clinical jargon.
Learn more about my new book, OCD Sucks: A Survival Guide:
This podcast episode is sponsored by NOCD. NOCD provides online OCD therapy in the US, UK, Australia and Canada. To schedule your free 15 minute consultation to see if NOCD is a right fit for you and your child, go to
This podcast episode is sponsored by NOCD. NOCD provides online OCD therapy in the US, UK, Australia and Canada. To schedule your free 15 minute consultation to see if NOCD is a right fit for you and your child, go to
Details about AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety, a podcast by Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and Child OCD Expert
