Dr. Jenny Yip: Kids And Moms Coping With OCD

Jenny Yip, Psy.D., ABPP, is a clinical psychologist, author, speaker and a nationally recognized Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and anxiety expert. Since childhood, Dr. Yip has fought her own personal battle with OCD. Like so many others, she found herself falling victim to the daily struggles that OCD can bring to one’s life. Inspired by her childhood struggles and motivated to helping others overcome theirs, Dr. Yip established the Renewed Freedom Center in Los Angeles to help those suffering from OCD and anxiety disorders by providing the most advanced treatment available. She developed the Family Systems Based Strategic CBT, integrating Mindfulness Training and Strategic Paradoxical Techniques with Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). For over a decade, she has successfully treated severe OCD and anxiety disorders with this comprehensive modality.

I am so grateful to Dr. Yip for coming on the show and so openly sharing her story of postpartum Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I know many moms will be able to relate to the crippling effects of anxiety during that postpartum time. Dr. Yip does an excellent job shedding light on postpartum anxiety, hypervigilance, and OCD.

After we cover adult OCD, we dive into what OCD can look like in children of all ages. You might be surprised, as OCD can manifest in many different ways in kids. If you have a child you think might be struggling with impulses, anxiety/worry, routines, depression, defiance, attention – there might be some new insights in this conversation for you.

Listen in to hear Dr. Yip share:

All the ways OCD can manifest, as well as the 3 different ways it showed up in her family growing up
The crippling grip Postpartum OCD had on her and what it cost her in her relationships with her twin sons
How adults can use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Exposure Therapy to quickly improve their OCD symptoms
What OCD looks like in children – what is quirky kid behavior vs OCD behavior
Why OCD is often misdiagnosed as ADD, ADHD, or Oppositional Defiant Disorder in kids
What kinds of treatment models are successful in treating kids with OCD and anxiety

Links Mentioned:

Work with Dr. Yip and her team: Renewed Freedom Center
Dr. Yip’s Podcast: The Stress-Less Life with Dr. Yip
Jenny Yip on Facebook
Jenny Yip on Twitter
Jenny Yip on Instagram
Book: Productive, Successful YOU! End Procrastination by Making Anxiety Work for You Rather Than Against You
International OCD Foundation
Anxiety and Depression Association of America

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