Rev. Dr. Katie O'Dunne

Founder, Stick with the Ick (formerly Faith & Mental Health Integrative Services)

January 2022-Present

• Lead an international, inclusive virtual scrupulosity community app for clinicians, clergy, and individuals with OCD

• Help individuals with OCD and related disorders live into their faith traditions in value-driven ways as they navigate evidence-based treatment

• Offer Interfaith Literacy for ERP Courses for Clinicians and Support Without Reassurance Courses for Clergy

• Support individuals with OCD, clinicians/OCD treatment centers, and faith leaders

• Facilitate the process of separating faith from OCD during ERP, reconnecting with faith in a value-driven way, embracing uncertainty, and engaging in exposures with a focus on cultural competence

• Work directly alongside clinicians as an adjunct to ERP so that we can integrate a client's specific religious background respectfully into their exposures

• Use extensive experience as an interfaith chaplain & education as a faith/mental health integrative specialist to help clients uncover their own uniquely beautiful beliefs through a spiritual application of ACT, without imposing personal theology

• Develop an assessment tool for clergy to be certified in ethical faith-based understanding work alongside clinicians specializing in ERP

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Academy Chaplain / The Pauline and R.L. Jr. ‘35 Chair of Religious Studies

Atlanta, GA — 2015-2022

• Develop a project-based model for Comparative Religions that fosters empathy/religious literacy & teach 150 Upper School students per year

• Provide pastoral care to 600 faculty/staff and 2,700 students in times of joy and crisis from an interfaith perspective

• Coordinate age-appropriate religious life activities for PK-12th grade on two campuses

• Serve on the Woodward Council and other boards/committees to provide a voice for all faiths

• Manage the Religious Life budget/endowment

• Create the Chaplain’s Council made up of 20 student leaders from various faith backgrounds for student-led faith initiatives on campus

• Lead interfaith prayer services and other religious understanding initiatives

• Lead the invocation, benediction, and prayers at all major campus events (Opening of School, Veteran’s Day, Founder’s Day, Baccalaureate, Commencement, etc.)

• Serve as a calming presence on campus engaged in student life

• Create/facilitate DEI workshops while encouraging faculty to create safe spaces for students

• Lead policy revisions to better support our transgender and non-binary students

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OCD Advocate

• Lead advocate on the National Level for the International OCD Foundation (2021-2024)

• Vice President of the OCD Georgia Board of Directors (2021)

• Assisted with planning & leadership of the first IOCDF Faith & Mental Health Conference (2021)

• Planned, facilitated, & moderated the first Southeast Regional OCD Conference (2021)

• Plans/facilitates/speaks at multiple mental health conferences per year with the IOCDF & local affiliates

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Center for Spiritual & Ethical Education

• Planned & facilitated annual School Chaplaincy Conference

• Planned & facilitated annual Grief Conference

• Regular publications on chaplaincy, grief, and interfaith programming

• Consultant helping schools build & assess interfaith chaplaincy programs

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Student Minister, Kirkwood United Church of Christ

Atlanta, GA — 8/14-8/15

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Program Intern, Back on My Feet

Atlanta, GA — 5/14-8/14

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Clinical Pastoral Education, Atlanta VA Medical Center

Atlanta, GA — 6/13-8/13​

 

Pastoral Care Intern, Twin Lakes Continuing Care Retirement Community

Burlington, NC — 3/11-5/11​

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Case Management Intern, Family Abuse Services

Burlington, NC — 5/10-7/10​

 

Service-Learning Intern, Ralph Scott Lifeservices for Individuals Experiencing Developmental Disabilities

Burlington, NC — 9/09-12/09​

 

Student Ambassador & Peer Advisor, Candler School of Theology at Emory University

Atlanta, GA — 9/12-5/15​