OCD Family Podcast

Join your host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, as she welcomes back return guest, Mike Heady, LCPC. Mike joins the OCD Family Community to talk more about his journey in understanding the difference between Generalized Anxiety Disorder and OCD based on research. Nicole holds a different perspective, but nothing says family like disagreement, right!? Ha! So join us and weigh i...

Join host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, as she welcomes back Psychiatrist and OCD Specialist, Dr. Ryan Vidrine, MD. for Part II of our medication conversation. Ryan graciously shares his thoughts on some hot topics, including differential diagnostic considerations for psychosis and other mental health disorders, as well as sharing the emerging research around psychedelics i...

Join your host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, as she welcomes Psychiatrist and OCD Specialist, Dr. Ryan Vidrine, MD, to our family gathering! During Part I or this two part series on medication support and it's role in the treatment of OCD, Nicole and Ryan discuss some common questions and concerns related to taking medication, fears and establishing expectations when it...

Join host, Nicole Morris, LMFT & Mental Health Correspondent, as she welcomes Mama Bear Extraordinaire and IOCDF Advocate, Kim Vincenty, to our family table. Kim shares about her journey as a mother trying to support her son with OCD. Kim describes their journey from his youth through adulthood, as well as how she fell in love with the OCD community of warriors. Kim founded the non-profit, JAC...

Join host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, as she welcomes Dr. Frederick Aardema, Ph. D. to the OCD Family Community. Most notedly, Fred is one of the Co-Founders of Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT), along with the late Dr. Kieron O’Connor, Ph. D. Nicole and Fred discuss the culmination of how I-CBT came to be, what it is and more. So join the conversation,...

Join your host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, in the Season 2 Premiere of OCD Family Podcast. Nicole welcomes Dr. Patrick McGrath, Chief Clinical Officer for NOCD , to our family table for a chat about Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and OCD. The discussion is framed to support loved ones and chosen families as they support their OCD and SUD sufferers. Nicole and Patrick discus...

Join your host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, for the final Water Cooler Chat of the summer! This week, Nicole discusses the tricky, sticky nature of mental compulsions. She reviews the 3 treatments that quench from earlier this season, further applying their evidenced-based power to OCD. Join us to learn more!

Join your host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, as she celebrates the one year mark with the OCD Family Community. Nicole overviews Season 1, lessons learned from the Water Cooler and what we can look forward to for the Season 2 Premiere. So join the conversation or watch over on YouTube .

Join your host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, for another chat around the water cooler! This week, Nicole is talking about BFRBs in the summertime! If you aren’t familiar with B ody F ocused R epetitive B ehaviors (BFRBs), consider this a special invitation to learn more! Because Nicole’s guess is that the OCD Family Community runs into this OCD-Related Disorder more often t...

Join your host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, as she unpacks this year's IOCDF Annual Conference. She is joined by special guest and handsome hubs, Patrick Morris. Patrick attended his first ever OCD conference, and he shares some of the highs and lows from their recent trip. So join the conversation, fam, and learn how this recap turned into re-crap on our return home.

Join your host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, as she dishes with the OCD Family Community on all things Imposter Syndrome. While this was intended to be published during the 28th International OCD Conference in San Francisco, CA, some technical and logistical difficulties presented a delay. To hear more about that, check out S1E51 for our conference recap! There’s quite a st...

Join host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, for another chat around the Water Cooler! This week we’re talking about Pride for our LGBTQIA+ OCD fam and loved ones! We talk about the history of Pride, particular stressors that the queer community can experience, mental health and of course, OCD! Please note that there is a trigger warning for this episode, as many of the facts an...

Welcome back, OCD Family Community! Today we take quite the trek to the Water Cooler as we chat about congested intersections and how they impact OCD. It's an important conversation that have talked and will continue to explore during our family chats. So come carpool with me as we journey this road together!

Hey there, OCD Family Community! We are continuing our exploration of treatments that quench OCD with Medication Support. Do you have to take meds to treat OCD? Join the conversation to learn more! Also, please remember that I'm not a doctor and this is not medical or mental health treatment. But check IOCDF's medication guidance for better support in advocating for you or your OCD and OCD...

Hey there, OCD Family Community! The Summer Series is continuing on with a timely Water Cooler Chat about I-CBT. I-CBT stands for Inferenced-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and it’s another Evidenced-Based Treatment for OCD. If you’ve been around our family gathering for awhile, you’ve heard us chat about I-CBT and ERP quite a bit. It can be hard to wrap your mind around, particularly for fami...

Join your host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, as she shares about her go-to treatment options for OCD by starting with an overview of Exposure and Response Prevention therapy, or ERP. For newer fam, this is a very broad overview. But you can check out more information regarding ERP at ocdfamilypodcast.com on this episode’s blog. This podcast is not therapy, but there is a lo...

Welcome to the Water Cooler Chats, OCD Family Podcast’s Summer Series, of brief shorts to give the OCD Family Community continued support and rehydration as we continue to support our loved ones and chosen family battling OCD and OCD-Related Disorders. Also, check out the video podcast new on Youtube .

Join your host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, as she welcomes back her handsome hubs, Patrick Morris. Together, Nicole and Patrick discuss lessons learned from Season 1 of the OCD Family Podcast before launching into the Summer Series: Water Cooler Chats. Nicole and Patrick discuss OCD, ERP and I-CBT through some games and trivia, as we celebrate and share a laugh or two wit...

Join your host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, as she welcomes Social Media Influencer, @obsessivelystrong , Madison Marie! Madison is an OCD Advocate turned graduate student who is learning from her journey with OCD to create more awareness and understanding in the Mental Health community. She creates informational graphics, posts and reels about the what OCD really is, addr...

Join host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, as she welcomes back Debbie Pelissero Morris, LMFT. Debbie joined the OCD Family Community last week to discuss her experience of OCD and Emetophobia, and she graces the fam with her presence once more to talk in depth about her Religious Scrupulosity OCD. Whether you, your loved one and chosen family has dealt with this subtype of OC...

Join your host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, as she welcomes her mother-in-law, Debbie Pelissero Morris, to the OCD Family Community. After sharing a story or two like any good family members do, we discuss the how Emetophobia and OCD first presented itself in Debbie's life, and we skim the surface regarding Scrupulous and Existential OCD themes. Lastly, we start a conv...

Join host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, as she welcomes Dr. Jenna DiLossi, PsyD, to our OCD Family table. We are dishing up a conversation about the incredible overlap of Eating Disorders (ED) when it comes to OCD, anxiety and more. Jenna shares her insights as an OCD expert, as well as an Eating Disorder Specialist. Join as we learn about how a malnourished brain can mimic...

Join your host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, as she concludes Part III on her miniseries about Autism & OCD with the knowledgable Dr. Jeremy Shuman, PsyD. Nicole and Jeremy discuss some of the edgier and more controversial aspects of this intersection, including how Autism can function as a precursor for OCD, the controversy of autistic females being under diagnosed, ma...

Join host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, as she welcomes back Dr. Jeremy Shuman, PsyD, for Part II of this 3 part series on Autism & OCD. Today’s episode is all about taking a closer look at Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). In Part I, Dr. Shuman provided a foundation for neurodiversity-affirming therapeutic approaches to mental heal...

Join your host, Nicole Morris, LMFT and Mental Health Correspondent, as she welcomes Dr. Jeremy Shuman, PsyD, to our family table! This week we're starting a 3 part series with Dr. Shuman on the important topic of Autism & OCD. In today's episode, we will be laying a foundation for understanding neuro-affirming therapeutic approaches with particular focus on the phenomenology of Autism...