OCD Family Podcast

This is a podcast for anyone who loves someone suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Author: Nicole Morris, LMFT

I am Nicole Morris, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and Mental Health Correspondent. I am here to create a community of support for family members, spouses, partners, parents, adult children (as there may be adult words) and chosen family of OCD Sufferers and their community.
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S4E158: OCD Treatment: Learning to Sail & Calm the Storm with Dr. Michael Greenberg
Episode 158
Friday, 6 March, 2026

In this episode of the OCD Family Podcast, Nicole Morris welcomes back Dr. Michael Greenberg, licensed clinical psychologist and creator of Rumination-Focused ERP, to explore a deeper way of understanding OCD.Dr. Greenberg shares insights from his article “OCD as a Defense Mechanism,” where he integrates behavioral approaches like ERP with psychoanalytic perspectives on emotional conflict and relational development. Together, Nicole and Michael discuss how OCD symptoms may function as defenses that displace difficult emotions into obsessions and compulsions.This conversation invites clinicians, families, and those with lived experience to consider a both-and approach to OCD treatment—one that addresses symptoms while also exploring the emotional dynamics that may fuel them.