Shari B. Kaplan explains that children with OCD or severe anxiety often lack bodily safety. Talk therapy alone doesn't work; clinicians must first use movement, sound, and humming to regulate the nervous system, then add herbal medicine, dietary changes, and functional psychiatry before conventional psychotherapy.
So say that child comes in and has developed OCD because they're so anxious because they don't feel safe. Well, you're not going to get the kid to feel safe by talking to him, right? Yeah. You're going to actually have to do things so that their body feels safe. And once you can get them moving their body using different types of modalities, whether it's sound, movement, humming, whatever you are doing, To engage that child. Then you can start talking about, hey, maybe we need some herbal plant medicine. Maybe we need to change your diet. Maybe we need to engage a functional medicine psychiatrist. And then you're going to do the psychology piece.
