Since the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, the need for anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) treatment for youth has persisted, if not increased. This pandemic has introduced new triggers, intensified existing worries, and infused broader uncertainty. New triggers include illness concerns (i.e., worries about contracting or spreading COVID‐19), social isolation, disruption of routine, and increased family conflict. In contrast, however, the pandemic has increased access to care for some via the expansion of telehealth services. This article details the benefits and challenges the authors have experienced delivering exposure therapy, a treatment that involves gradually confronting feared stimuli, via telehealth.

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