In the Season 4 Finale of the OCD Family Podcast, Nicole welcomes back leading OCPD expert, Dr. Anthony Pinto, to discuss his brand new, co-authored self-help book: The Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder Workbook. Together, they explore burnout, shame, procrastination, rigidity, and the hidden emotional toll of OCPD—along with practical CBT tools that can help people build more flexibility, balance, and connection without losing themselves in the process.

They also answer listener questions about relationships, narcissism and more. Whether you live with OCPD, love someone who does, or are learning about it for the first time, this episode offers compassion, insight, and hope. So join the conversation, and celebrate the hope that awareness and evidence-based tools can bring!

In this episode, Nicole Morris, LMFT sits down with Michael Parker, LCSW (OCD Space) for a deep dive into Inference-Based CBT (I-CBT) and some of the most common questions surrounding this evidence-based OCD treatment approach.

Together, they explore inferential confusion, feared possible selves, differences between ERP and I-CBT, and why emotionally powerful feelings do not equal evidence that OCD’s story is true. The episode also includes a practical case conceptualization to help listeners understand how I-CBT works in treatment.

Intrigued!? Come learn with us, because we continue to be better together.

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.