
Ashley Kiefer
Former youth minister turned licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) in Minnesota, specializing in anxiety, OCD, scrupulosity, and faith-based therapy.
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Aug 6, 2026
From Youth Ministry to Mental Health: Faith, Fear, and Healing with Ashley Kiefer
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Chris DamianHOST
So I'd be really curious for you, you know, when you think about like, what is scrupulosity? What is OCD? Maybe we'll just start there.

Ashley KieferGUEST
So OCD, right, is when I have obsessions and obsessions can be in the form of thoughts or urges or images, often unwanted, that I feel won't leave my mind.

Ashley KieferGUEST
And in order to neutralize those thoughts, images, urges, or make them go away, I will do a compulsion, right? And I'm not saying I, just me, but any person that has it, right? Like, only me, I am OCD, no.

Ashley KieferGUEST
But but one will do a compulsion and it provides temporary relief, which is why it is so hard to break the cycle.
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I Left the Church: Talking With My Former Youth Minister about Mental Health
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Mm.

Ashley KieferGUEST
So obsessive compulsive disorder, right? And so a lot of times when we hear OCD, right, we think of people that maybe have a lot of fear of germs or need things in a particular order, and those certainly can be, um, types of, of OCD that we see.
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