Rev. Katie O’Dunne, DMin, serves as the Consultant for OCD & Religion at the OCD Institute of Texas. She is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and the founder of Stick with the Ick, an inclusive interfaith virtual community and app offering resources across traditions for those navigating faith and OCD.
Katie works to educate clinicians and clergy in order to promote culturally responsive OCD treatment across diverse religious and spiritual traditions. Her work focuses on helping clinicians understand theological nuances in treatment, guiding clergy in offering spiritual support without reassurance, and empowering individuals with OCD to reimagine treatment as an opportunity to take a leap of faith.
Before focusing her chaplaincy on OCD and faith, Katie served for seven years as Academy Chaplain and the Pauline and R.L. Brand Jr. ’35 Chair of Religious Studies at Woodward Academy in Atlanta, Georgia, while also consulting nationally on interfaith programming. She currently chairs the IOCDF Faith & OCD Action Council, teaches chaplains about scrupulosity through the Mental Health Integration in Chaplain Services program as part of Vanderbilt University’s Doctor of Ministry, and received Vanderbilt’s Doctor of Ministry Award for Distinction in Integrative Care Practices.
