OCD Straight Talk

By Chris Leins, MA, NCC, LPCC-SHealth & Fitness Mental Health

OCD Straight Talk episodes

May 05, 2020 Am I Doing the Thinking or is the Thinking Doing Me?
Chris discusses mental rituals and how to decipher between mental rituals and intrusive thinking.
18 min
April 29, 2020 Where's Waldo?
In this episode, Chris discusses not only the clinical importance of stopping all compulsions, but of finding them. Safety-behaviors (or compulsions) don't scream and shout, saying "Hey, I'm a compulsions. Stop me." They have something to be gained by not being stopped. "What?" you ask. Well, if you're not identifying them as compulsions, you're not stoppin' 'em; and of youre not stopping them, then your anxiety-related disorder will continue on and on.
22 min
April 13, 2020 Habituate, Don't Fluctuate
Chris deals with an important element of exposure therapy, technically called Habituation.
19 min
April 08, 2020 Cracking the Code
Chris discusses cognitive therapy and cognitive-behavior therapy with the exposure-component as treatment-modalities for the anxiety-related disorders. Tune in for this educational talk on symptoms and treatment.
14 min
April 02, 2020 Your Anxiety Disorder's Not Happening to You, but You're Happening to your Anxiety Disorder.
Victor Meyer's 1966 study points us in the direction of the evidence-based protocol. Chris explains the basic symptom-dynamic and -functionality of the anxiety-related disorders.
16 min
March 13, 2020 Anxiety & OCD treatment specialist introduces a new podcast on a troubling theme.
In this brief podcast Intro, Chris mentions a treatment theme of individuals not making sufficient therapeutic progress by way of conventional treatments, and launches a new podcast that seeks to inform listeners as to "good treatment" in the world of the anxiety, and OCD sufferer.
3 min