Rachel Kuchem Woodward: Faith, Scrupulosity and OCD (#534)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In episode 534 I chat with Rachel Kuchem Woodward (LCSW). Rachel is the owner of Re-Viving Lives Counseling, in Fort Worth. Rachel is a therapist holistically and clinically treating girls and women since 2019. Having her own 20+ year personal journey with OCD, Rachel is passionate about treating sufferers of OCD and educating faith circles on OCD, bridging the gap between biblical and clinical circles around this topic for clients, church leaders, and mental health leaders.
We discuss her therapy journey, how OCD can latch on to faith, telling the difference between a genuine faith based question and an OCD question, how pastors and churches can help, scripture and OCD, moving towards values, exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), addressing shame in therapy, bringing in family members, and much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The OCD Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.5 | The OCD Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding around obsessive, |
| 0:11.1 | compulsive symptoms. |
| 0:12.8 | I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, psychologists, and people who have experienced OCD. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to the OCD Stories. |
| 0:24.7 | And welcome to episode 534 of the podcast, |
| 0:31.3 | and in this one, I got on Rachel Ketchum Woodward. Rachel is the owner of reviving lives counselling in Fort Worth. Rachel is a therapist, holistically and clinically treating |
| 0:36.0 | girls and women since 2019. |
| 0:38.1 | Having her own 20-plus year personal journey of OCD, |
| 0:41.3 | Rachel is passionate about treating sufferers of OCD and educating faith circles on OCD, |
| 0:46.4 | bridging the gap between biblical and clinical circles around this topic for clients, |
| 0:50.8 | church leaders and mental health leaders. |
| 0:53.0 | In particular, we discuss her therapy journey, |
| 0:55.7 | how OCD latches onto faith, telling the difference between a genuine faith-based question and an OCD question, |
| 1:02.3 | how pastors and churches can help, scripture and OCD, moving towards values, exposure and response prevention |
| 1:09.1 | therapy, addressing shame in therapy, and bringing in |
| 1:12.7 | family members. And thanks to our podcast partners, no CD. If OCD is interfering with your life, |
| 1:19.6 | no CD can help. Their licensed therapists specialize in exposure and response prevention therapy, |
| 1:25.8 | the most proven therapy for OCD. With no CD, effective |
| 1:29.5 | treatment that is 100% virtual is available for children and adults with OCD. And most members can get |
| 1:35.7 | started within seven days on average. No hassle, just real, science-backed help and support between |
| 1:41.5 | sessions. Begin your journey at nocd.com or I'll put the link in the episode description. So I hope you enjoyed this episode and find it useful. And thank you so much to Rachel for a time. And of course, to you guys for listening, as always, it means a lot. About further ado, here is Rachel. Welcome to the podcast, Rachel. Hi, Stuart. Thanks so much for having me. Yeah, it's good to have |
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