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Caasi O’Day on Being “Too Much,” Somatic Healing, and Treating the Clients Others Avoid
Licensed clinical social worker Caasi O’Day, founder of Las Vegas practice Polarized Parts, shares her path from being a “lost cause” teen in a small Iowa town—angry, self-harming, using drugs, and distrustful of therapy—to becoming a clinician known for radical honesty, dark humor, and working with clients often judged or labeled “treatment resistant.”
She explains why she centers nonjudgment, authenticity, and self-disclosure, and outlines DBT’s four modules (mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness) alongside internal family systems and somatic work. The conversation explores intimacy, attachment, rejection fears, her fast engagement and later divorce (requested June 2024), and her practice of taking a year off dating after breakups.
O’Day discusses ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, her own first experience (panic attack, then joy after letting go of control), and the importance of integration and body awareness. She also covers therapist self-care, private practice boundaries, and future plans for more somatic workshops, teaching, and nature-based offerings, ending with what she’d tell her 16-year-old self: “You are not too much.”
00:00 Meet Caasi O'Day
01:09 Early Life Template
02:25 Acting Out and Therapy
05:31 Sent Away and Too Much
06:56 Becoming the Therapist
09:37 Working With Outcasts
12:13 DBT Skills Breakdown
14:56 Nonjudgmental Client Care
19:21 Intimacy and Self Worth
23:53 Marriage Divorce and Growth
28:47 Talking About Sex Safely
34:39 Curiosity Over Assumptions
34:57 Erotic Communication Skills
37:41 Puberty And Mixed Signals
41:10 Receiving Honest Feedback
43:05 Desire Changes Over Time
44:20 Somatic Clues In The Body
46:53 Beyond Talk Therapy
51:39 Ketamine And Integration
58:00 Therapist Burnout Boundaries
01:01:59 Rebuilding And Future Vision
01:05:26 Advice To The Sixteen Year Old Cassi
https://polarizedparts.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587040433132
https://www.instagram.com/polarized_parts
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By Andrew PhippsCaasi O’Day on Being “Too Much,” Somatic Healing, and Treating the Clients Others Avoid
Licensed clinical social worker Caasi O’Day, founder of Las Vegas practice Polarized Parts, shares her path from being a “lost cause” teen in a small Iowa town—angry, self-harming, using drugs, and distrustful of therapy—to becoming a clinician known for radical honesty, dark humor, and working with clients often judged or labeled “treatment resistant.”
She explains why she centers nonjudgment, authenticity, and self-disclosure, and outlines DBT’s four modules (mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness) alongside internal family systems and somatic work. The conversation explores intimacy, attachment, rejection fears, her fast engagement and later divorce (requested June 2024), and her practice of taking a year off dating after breakups.
O’Day discusses ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, her own first experience (panic attack, then joy after letting go of control), and the importance of integration and body awareness. She also covers therapist self-care, private practice boundaries, and future plans for more somatic workshops, teaching, and nature-based offerings, ending with what she’d tell her 16-year-old self: “You are not too much.”
00:00 Meet Caasi O'Day
01:09 Early Life Template
02:25 Acting Out and Therapy
05:31 Sent Away and Too Much
06:56 Becoming the Therapist
09:37 Working With Outcasts
12:13 DBT Skills Breakdown
14:56 Nonjudgmental Client Care
19:21 Intimacy and Self Worth
23:53 Marriage Divorce and Growth
28:47 Talking About Sex Safely
34:39 Curiosity Over Assumptions
34:57 Erotic Communication Skills
37:41 Puberty And Mixed Signals
41:10 Receiving Honest Feedback
43:05 Desire Changes Over Time
44:20 Somatic Clues In The Body
46:53 Beyond Talk Therapy
51:39 Ketamine And Integration
58:00 Therapist Burnout Boundaries
01:01:59 Rebuilding And Future Vision
01:05:26 Advice To The Sixteen Year Old Cassi
https://polarizedparts.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587040433132
https://www.instagram.com/polarized_parts