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🗓️ 24 July 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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In episode 339 I chat to Dr Heather Sequeira. Heather is a consultant psychologist specialising in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
We discuss her therapy story, trauma and OCD, what is post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), what is complex or developmental trauma, what’s going on in the brain with trauma, disgust in trauma and OCD, doubt and uncertainty, treating OCD and trauma together, the role of compassion, when the OCD theme directly links to the trauma, focusing on what we want to do now, shame around the freeze response, and much more. Hope helps.
Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/heather-339
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0:00.0 | You're listening to The O. C.D do this for interviewing inspired therapists, |
0:15.2 | psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories. |
0:22.4 | And welcome to episode 339 and in this one I |
0:26.2 | interviewed Dr Heather Sequera. Hever is a consultant psychologist based in the UK and I got around specifically to talk about trauma and I |
0:35.0 | of course trauma is a massive topic that I could probably cover |
0:41.0 | over hundreds of episodes but this episode does a good job I feel |
0:45.6 | at answering some of those questions and getting the ball rolling and I will look to cover |
0:50.2 | the variations of trauma in much more detail in the future. |
0:53.3 | But in particular we discuss her therapy story, so what got her to be a psychologist |
0:58.6 | and specifically with trauma and OCD. |
1:01.5 | She shares what is post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. We discuss |
1:06.2 | what is complex or developmental trauma. What's going on in the brain with trauma? We look at disgust in trauma and |
1:13.8 | OCD, doubt and uncertainty. We also discuss |
1:17.7 | treating ICD and trauma together. |
1:20.8 | The role of compassion. When the OCD theme directly links to the trauma, focusing on what |
1:26.6 | we want to do now and our values and shame around the freeze response. |
1:31.6 | I really enjoy chatting with Heather and I think you guys will |
1:35.1 | enjoy the conversation. And thank you to NOCD for supporting the podcast. NOCD offers |
1:39.9 | affordable, effective and convenient therapy available in the US and outside the US. |
1:46.0 | To find out more about no CD, their therapy plans, if they currently take your insurance or |
1:50.4 | to download their free app, head over to go dot treat my OCD.com |
1:55.1 | forward slash the OCD stories or the link will be in the episode description. |
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