In episode 559 I chat with Saraa D. Lee, MSW, LCSW. Saraa is an OCD therapist who also lives with OCD. After recently getting remarried and having a second baby, her experience with OCD led her to take a different approach to helping people with OCD find, build, and maintain lasting love in their lives. As a licensed therapist and Clinical Supervisor specialising in Love, Marriage and OCD, she treats the full picture: ROCD, dating with OCD, marriage/couples with OCD, perinatal and postpartum OCD, and parenting with OCD by combining Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) with Gottman Method Therapy tools and other evidence-based therapies for supporting healthy relationships.

We discuss an update on her, the topics of love, marriage and OCD, working with the whole person, when someone feels like they struggle with key life stages, some of her own recent struggles, dating and pregnancy, relationship skills and OCD, and much more. Hope it helps.

Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/saraa-559

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In episode 558 I chat with Dr Anthony Pinto and Dr Michael Wheaton. Anthony Pinto, Ph.D. is Senior Director of the Northwell Health OCD Center at Zucker Hillside Hospital on Long Island and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Dr. Pinto has published over 100 manuscripts/chapters on OCD/related conditions and has an extensive record of conference presentations, invited lectures, and media appearances. He is the leading clinical and research authority on obsessive compulsive personality disorder (OCPD). He co-edited a comprehensive academic book on OCPD (2020) and co-authored a self-help OCPD workbook (2026). He is the lead author of the self-rated Family Accommodation Scale for OCD and the Pathological Obsessive Compulsive Personality Scale, both of which are being used worldwide. He serves on the International OCD Foundation’s Scientific and Clinical Advisory Board and is on the teaching faculty for the IOCDF’s Behavior Therapy Training Institute. Michael Wheaton, Ph.D. is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology at Barnard College, where he teaches classes related to clinical psychology and conducts research on OCD and related disorders, including OCPD. Dr. Wheaton earned his PhD in clinical psychology from UNC-Chapel Hill and completed his postdoctoral training in the Center for OCD and Related Disorders at the New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University Medical Center. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, American Psychological Foundation, and International OCD Foundation. He also runs a private practice focused on OCD and related disorders (including OCPD) in New York, NY.

We discuss their therapy backgrounds, what obsessive compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) is, the diagnostic criteria for it, the overlap with OCD, the comorbidity rate with OCD, their new OCPD workbook, plenty of skills for helping people with OCPD, and much more. Hope it helps.

Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/anthony-and-michael-558

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In episode 557 I chat with Krista Reed. Krista is a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker (LSCSW). Krista is passionate about working with patients who have Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders.

We discuss her therapy and OCD journey, being your authentic self, struggling to develop an acceptance of her authentic self, learning to be authentic, the Inference-based CBT (ICBT) feared possible self, feeling regret, OCD impacting one’s ability to be authentic, Krista gives lots of examples from her own life, and much more. Hope it helps.

Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/krista-557

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