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Kaylie Bolin

Kaylie Bolin

Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) specializing in OCD and anxiety therapy; founder of The Human Collective Therapy Group.

Jul 14, 2026

12:35
Wait, can you talk more about that?
12:37
Yes.
12:37
So somatic obsessions, kind of as I mentioned a little bit ago, there are different subtypes of OCD.
12:43
So health OCD, relationship, contamination, um, the list goes on and on.
12:50
One of them that tends to be very big for a lot of people is somatic obsessions, and it is obsessions that are rooted in how your body feels.
13:00
This can take many different forms.
13:04
Um, sometimes I'll have people who will all of a sudden recognize how they're breathing or feel like they're not taking a full breath in, and then they're super focused on their breathing.

5 MINS LATER

18:28
but how they're not actually helping long-term?

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