Colorado OCD
& Anxiety Treatment
Recommended Resources
"In this powerful and personal conversation, I sit down with Lacey Pacheco, MA LPC-S, to explore the realities of living with OCD and anxiety—and the many pathways to healing. We talk openly about our own experiences, how these conditions can show up in everyday life, and how to take the first steps toward understanding and managing them.
Lacey brings her clinical expertise as a licensed professional counselor supervisor to break down therapy options, misconceptions, and what healing really looks like. Whether
you’re struggling with intrusive thoughts, anxiety, or just beginning to wonder if therapy could help—you’re not alone. This is your sign to start the journey toward healing."
Topics We Cover:
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What OCD really is (and isn’t)
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How anxiety can sneak into your daily life
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Therapy types that actually help (ERP, CBT, and more)
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Reducing shame and stigma around mental health
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What "being on" can mean, and how to spot it
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Our personal healing stories—and how you can begin yours
Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD is one of our recommended resources for parents and caregivers of children and teens struggling with anxiety or OCD. The book introduces SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions), an evidence-based, parent-focused approach that helps families understand how their responses to anxiety can influence the anxiety cycle.
Parents naturally want to protect their children and reduce their distress. However, reassurance, avoidance, changing family routines, or other accommodations can sometimes unintentionally allow anxiety and OCD to become more powerful over time. This book helps parents recognize these patterns and learn how to gradually replace accommodations with responses that communicate both acceptance of their child’s struggles and confidence in their ability to cope.
We especially appreciate that SPACE focuses on changes parents can make without requiring the child or teen to participate in treatment or immediately change their behavior. With practical strategies, worksheets, and real-life guidance, this book gives parents concrete tools to support their child while helping the entire family become less controlled by anxiety and OCD.
A teenage girl coping with anxiety, and her mother's determination to help her overcome it using SPACE Treatment.
For more information go to:
https://www.spacetreatment.net/
Breaking Free of Picky Eating is a practical and compassionate resource for parents and caregivers of children struggling with severe picky eating or Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID). When eating becomes a source of anxiety or conflict, families can understandably begin making accommodations to help their child eat and reduce distress. While these accommodations come from a place of love and concern, they can sometimes unintentionally reinforce restrictive eating patterns.
This book introduces SPACE-ARFID, a parent-based approach adapted from the evidence-based SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) treatment model. Rather than placing pressure on a child to eat or participate directly in treatment, SPACE-ARFID helps parents change how they respond to restrictive eating while remaining supportive and compassionate.
With step-by-step guidance, real-life examples, worksheets, and practical strategies, parents learn how to reduce accommodations, create more structure around mealtimes, respond supportively to their child’s distress, and encourage greater flexibility around food.
We recommend this resource because it gives parents concrete tools to support meaningful change while reducing power struggles and keeping the parent-child relationship at the center of the process.
Unstuck: An OCD Kids Movie
Kids, teens and adults with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) are trapped in a vicious cycle of worries, intrusive thoughts and rituals. While loved ones are desperate to help them, defeating OCD takes time and specialized therapy. To uncover what OCD is, and what it isn’t, filmmakers Kelly Anderson and Chris Baier focus on an unlikely group of experts: kids!
UNSTUCK is an award-winning short film that explains OCD through the eyes of young people. It avoids sensationalizing compulsions and obsessions, and instead reveals the complexity of a disorder that affects the brain and behavior. As the group of resilient kids and teens roadmap their process of recovery, the film will inspire you to believe it is possible to fight your worst fears and defeat OCD.
For more information go to: www.ocdkidsmovie.com/familypurchase