Sheva Rajaee: Relationship OCD Couples Therapy (#492)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In episode 492 I chat with Sheva Rajaee. Sheva is a psychotherapist who specialises in the treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and other related anxiety disorders. She is the founder of the Center for Anxiety and OCD (CAOCD). Sheva authored the book Relationship OCD: A CBT-Based Guide to Move Beyond Obsessive Doubt, Anxiety, and Fear of Commitment in Romantic Relationships.
We discuss an update on her, her center’s couples protocol for working with relationship OCD (rOCD), treating the system with rOCD, attachment theory, attachment insecurities, emotion focused therapy (EFT), having healing couples conversations, helping the partner navigate the OCD and relationship, self compassion in the context of the couple, sex and intimacy, values based sex, 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. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, psychologists, and people |
| 0:16.8 | who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD Stories. |
| 0:26.6 | And welcome to episode 492 of the podcast. And in this one, |
| 0:33.9 | I got back on Shiva Rajai. Shiva is a psychotherapist who specializes in OCD. She is also the director and founder of the Center for Anxiety and OCD. |
| 0:43.6 | Sheva authored the book Relationship OCD, a CBT-based guide to move beyond obsessive doubt, |
| 0:47.1 | anxiety and fear of commitment in romantic relationships. |
| 0:49.1 | So it's great to have Shiva back on. |
| 0:57.3 | And in this one, we talk about her center's new protocol for working with couples in relationship OCD. |
| 0:58.1 | So she'll work with the person with relationship OCD, but then also see the partner at the |
| 1:05.5 | same time. |
| 1:06.9 | So it's sort of couples work for relationship OCD. |
| 1:10.1 | So she breaks this protocol down and what that looks like. |
| 1:13.5 | We also talk about treating the system within our OCD, attachment theory, attachment |
| 1:19.0 | insecurities, emotion focused therapy, having healing couples conversations, helping the partner |
| 1:26.3 | navigate the OCD and relationship, self-compassion, |
| 1:30.7 | in the context of the couple, sex and intimacy, values-based sex, and much more. |
| 1:38.4 | If OCD is interfering with your life, no CD can help. |
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