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Hi! I'm Natasha Daniels

I’m a therapist who offers online support to parents raising kids with anxiety and/or OCD. Check out my podcast, Youtube, Courses & Membership. Sign up for my newsletter:

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Hacks to Help Kids with Anxiety or OCD

Hey Reader-Are you waiting to work on your child’s anxiety or OCD until you get a therapist? Or is your child in therapy and you are anxiously waiting to see results? Anxiety and OCD won’t wait until… You get off that waitlist. It won’t wait until your child starts using the skills they learn in therapy. It continues to grow and spread its roots into a home’s foundation, threatening to crack stability. Here’s the truth: Anxiety and OCD involve the family, so it takes the family to make a...

Hey Reader-Are you wondering WHY your child with anxiety or OCD isn’t making progress? It can be super frustrating when you feel like you are doing all you can and yet they continue to get worse. There is a reason for this. Often parents are throwing skills and resources at their kids without a plan. Some parents have missed some foundational steps and are diving into the deep end when their child isn’t ready. Could that be you? In the first video of my 3 part video series we’ll figure that...

Hey Reader Tomorrow marks the start of Survival Tools for Parents Raising Kids with Anxiety or OCD—and I hope you’ll be joining me! This free series is designed to provide powerful strategies and support for parents like you. If you’re feeling alone, overwhelmed, or uncertain about how to help your child, you’re in the right place. Over the next week, I’ll walk you through practical, proven tools to create a home environment that truly supports your child’s mental health. Busy? Don’t Worry!...

Hey Reader, If you’re raising a child with anxiety or OCD, you know there’s a problem—but finding a real solution can feel like an endless search. You may have tried everything, only to find that the issues keep coming back. How can you fix your child’s anxiety or OCD? You need effective tools, not temporary fixes. You don’t have time to waste. You need to know exactly how to address this issue with skills and approaches that will be effective. Don’t waste time. Get tools that work. As a...

Are you struggling to find a child therapist who specializes in OCD? Or have you found someone who says they treat OCD, but clearly doesn’t have the expertise or knowledge to treat your child 😩. 💣 Here is a truth bomb… Believe it or not, most therapists are NOT given the specialized training to treat OCD. That’s a scary fact! And without that training, they can do more harm than good. Just ask parents who went to the wrong therapist. You shouldn’t have to sit around watching your child get...

Harm OCD is one of the most misunderstood OCD themes children and teens experience. These intrusive thoughts can be dark, scary, and completely out of character—causing intense fear and shame. Unfortunately, when therapists or parents don’t understand Harm OCD, kids can be mislabeled as a danger to themselves or others when in reality, they are terrified of these thoughts and desperate to make them stop. In this video, I’ll show you realistic examples of how Harm OCD can show up in everyday...

Helping our kids with anxiety and OCD can be counterintuitive; especially with OCD! Trusting your gut, or even an unskilled mental health professional, can sometimes make things worse. I learned that the hard way myself. After my kids had several bad therapists, I realized that my role was pivotal. Even now, with both kids seeing fantastic therapists, I am still the one dealing with their crises and immediate struggles 24/7. My guess is, so are you. That is why I don’t want you to miss the...

Whenever I do something new (like deciding to give away all my courses at 50% off this week 😳), I get emails with questions. Like, are you crazy?! No, but seriously perhaps you had questions too? I decided to make an email with answers to the most common questions I’m getting. If you still have questions after this just hit reply and I’ll be happy to answer them. 🤎 How long do we get access to the courses? You get ongoing access to the courses and can take them at your own time or even...

As parents we have a front row seat to our child’s anxiety or OCD struggles. Their issues don’t stay neatly contained in a box. It explodes and impacts everyone around it. -We inadvertently grow it at times. -We coach (and sometimes beg) our kids to not listen to it. -We see it hiding in our child’s behaviors (even when they deny it). -We notice the impact it has on our other kids and on our adult relationships. We don’t get a choice whether these issues impact our child and our family. But...

Can you believe it takes an average of 14 to 17 years from the time OCD first appears for people to seek and receive appropriate OCD treatment? Yes, over a decade. And yet 50% of people with OCD report their symptoms started in childhood. Why should kids have to suffer for so long? But that doesn’t have to be your children’s fate. In fact, that’s the very issue that drives me to make sure parents have access to evidenced-based courses to help their child with OCD no matter what. There is a...