Dr. Stephen Brodsky

Dr. Steven Brodsky is the Founder of the OCD Hotline (www.OCDhotline.com) a free public service that has replied to tens of thousands of questions emailed from around the world for decades. Dr. Brodsky is one of the foremost psychologists specializing in the treatment of OCD and Panic without medication for over 25 years. Everyone he treats has OCD. He has treated thousands of clients and hundreds of types of OCD. Dr. Brodsky is the Clinical Director of The OCD & Panic Centers of New York and New Jersey and the Nationwide OCD Teletherapy Service.

His education includes 5 degrees and multiple scholarships from the University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, and Yeshiva University, including his Psy.D. (Doctorate in Psychology). He began treating OCD during graduate school, working with top names in psychology research, several psychiatric hospitals, outpatient treatment clinics, medical institutions, and group practices, before going independent.

Dr. Brodsky regularly appears in the media for expert commentary on hundreds of television and radio programs, newspapers, magazines, and online media, which appear on his website. He also authored many articles on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ocdhotline on the intersection of psychology, society, and the media. He was the only mental health professional called upon by the City of New York to serve as a panelist in the New York City Mayor's Commission on Hoarding and OCD. He has presented to clinicians, educators, government officials, law enforcement, legal professionals, social service agencies, family and professional organizations, nonprofit and religious organizations. He wrote or contributed to several highly acclaimed books, including the popular series Conscious Care Guides: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Recognize and Overcome Behaviors for a Healthier, Happier You, as well as a self-help book series for teens It Happened to Me: Anxiety, the Ultimate Teen Guide, and Confronting the Bully of OCD: Winning Back Our Freedom One Day at a Time, written and dedicated to Dr. Brodsky by his former client, Linda Maran.

In addition to psychology, Dr. Brodsky also has graduate degrees in painting and political science, an undergraduate degree in economics, and an unquenchable thirst for biology and evolution.