Hi,
I have been dealing with severe OCD and also scrupulosity for a while now. I have found a Christian Therapist in my area. I emailed and asked her if she had experience treating people with severe OCD and scrupulosity. She mentioned that she had worked with some. For some reason I have a feeling that she may offer more talk therapy with some therapy applicable to an OCD patient rather than intensive specialized OCD therapy... It's just a feeling I have, feelings can be wrong. I plan to call her tomorrow to ask further questions to see if she is really equipped to help someone in my case.
If she is more talk therapy style with experience working with people who have OCD and scrupulosity rather than a therapist that provides intensive therapy targeted at OCD, do you think I should still go to her (seeing that she has a Christian worldview), or do you think I should try to find someone who has the experience intensively treating severe OCD? What if I cannot find a therapist who holds a Christian world-view for the therapy. It's important that my therapist understands where I am coming from, and I am most comfortable with a therapist that has the same motivations as me in terms of wanting to be right before God.
Have any of you had therapy and faced any of these types of therapists or situations? Do you have any advice on a therapist?
Please pray for me to be able to get treatment and for a therapy situation which will give the most healing the fastest that will also be pleasing to God?
Thanks.
I have been dealing with severe OCD and also scrupulosity for a while now. I have found a Christian Therapist in my area. I emailed and asked her if she had experience treating people with severe OCD and scrupulosity. She mentioned that she had worked with some. For some reason I have a feeling that she may offer more talk therapy with some therapy applicable to an OCD patient rather than intensive specialized OCD therapy... It's just a feeling I have, feelings can be wrong. I plan to call her tomorrow to ask further questions to see if she is really equipped to help someone in my case.
If she is more talk therapy style with experience working with people who have OCD and scrupulosity rather than a therapist that provides intensive therapy targeted at OCD, do you think I should still go to her (seeing that she has a Christian worldview), or do you think I should try to find someone who has the experience intensively treating severe OCD? What if I cannot find a therapist who holds a Christian world-view for the therapy. It's important that my therapist understands where I am coming from, and I am most comfortable with a therapist that has the same motivations as me in terms of wanting to be right before God.
Have any of you had therapy and faced any of these types of therapists or situations? Do you have any advice on a therapist?
Please pray for me to be able to get treatment and for a therapy situation which will give the most healing the fastest that will also be pleasing to God?
Thanks.