Therapist Explains How Culture Impacts OCD and Treatment  | Get to know OCD Ep 10
Get to know OCD5 Syys 2024

Therapist Explains How Culture Impacts OCD and Treatment | Get to know OCD Ep 10

One of our own NOCD therapists, Saraa Lee, joins us on this episode of the Get to know OCD podcast. Treating OCD from a cultural lens is one of Saraa's many specialties.

She believes our culture can shape our identities as it has hers, as well as influence how we do or don't treat OCD. In this candid interview, she opens up about her challenging upbringing and offers deep insights into her approach to helping others manage OCD. Saraa leaves no stone unturned, delivering a powerful conversation about the intersection of culture and mental health.

Show Notes:

0:00 Intro

1:19 Saraa’s own story

7:48 Why Saraa HAD to be a therapist

9:56 What Saraa has learned from being a therapist

12:26 What happens when someone resists Saraa's therapy

17:26 Creating space to be vulnerable

21:19 Not making assumptions based on culture

25:41 OCD IS treatable

27:23 Saraa’s intrusive thoughts about race

36:50 Culture and ancestry creating distrust in therapy

45:36 ERP Therapy

49:40 Existing in the vanguard

53:19 How an OCD therapist and talk therapist differ

55:50 Saraa’s message to aspiring therapists


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