Coaching With Mendy
Religious OCD, Anxiety & Parenting: How to Help a Struggling Child | Eli Weinreb, LCSW and Mendy
FEELING WORRIED ABOUT YOUR CHILD'S ANXIETY, OCD, OR EMOTIONAL STRUGGLES?When a child or teenager is struggling with anxiety or OCD, parents often wonder: How can I help without making things worse?In this powerful conversation, Eli Weinreb, LCSW joins Mendy Klein on Coaching With Mendy to explore OCD, anxiety, religious OCD, parenting, therapy, and the challenges that children and families can face within the Jewish community.Eli shares his perspective on why not every child fits into the same box, how parents can better understand their children's emotional experiences, and why therapy should be individualized rather than forcing everyone into the same framework.The conversation also explores parenting styles, validation, OCD and compulsions, exposure therapy, religious OCD, IFS, CBT, DBT, anxiety, ADHD, medication, and somatic work.Most importantly, this conversation highlights an important message for parents:Supporting your child starts with understanding what they are experiencing—not simply trying to fix it.In This Episode You'll Discover:✅ Why not every child or teenager fits into the same “box”✅ How community and family expectations can affect mental health✅ The four parenting styles: authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and neglectful✅ The “phone battery” analogy for understanding your child's emotional capacity✅ Why validating your child's feelings matters✅ What OCD is and when normal thoughts or habits can become disruptive✅ How compulsions and avoidance can reinforce anxiety✅ How exposure therapy can help someone face anxiety instead of continually avoiding it✅ What religious OCD can look like✅ How CBT, DBT, and IFS can be used in therapy✅ Why anxiety can sometimes function as a protective response✅ How grounding and somatic approaches can support emotional regulation✅ When medication may become part of a conversation around OCD or ADHD✅ Why parents may need to work on themselves alongside their children✅ Why individualized support matters in mental health and therapy━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH MENDY KLEINMendy Klein is a Life Coach, Somatic Practitioner, and Breathwork Facilitator helping individuals work through anxiety, emotional overwhelm, feeling stuck, relationship challenges, and personal growth.His approach incorporates coaching, somatic awareness, breathwork, and body-based practices to help clients develop greater clarity, awareness, and regulation. Website:https://kleinscoaching.com Blog:https://kleinscoaching.com/blog/ Email:kleinscoaching@gmail.com Phone:347-977-6675 Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/coachingwithmendy/️ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/033iZifyxsuMyAifzhgmme Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coaching-with-mendy/id1896880248━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT ELI WEINREB, LCSWEli Weinreb, LCSW discusses his work with teens and adults and shares his experience with different therapeutic approaches, including CBT, DBT, IFS, exposure work, motivational interviewing, inner-child work, and other individualized approaches.Instagram https://www.instagram.com/eliweinreblcswLinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/eli-weinreb-lcsw-3a045b1b7Website https://eliweinreblcsw.com/━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⭐ SUPPORT THE CHANNELIf this conversation was valuable to you: Like the video Comment with your thoughts Subscribe to Coaching With Mendy Share this episode with a parent, family member, or someone who may benefit from itYour engagement helps these conversations reach more people who may need them.Thank you for watching!
