While IFS therapy does not speak the same language as CBT, each has roots in the same underground spring of mindful awareness and similarly facilitates an experiential process of internal differentiation among the parts of a person that may have distorted or outdated views and feelings. This brings into power the actual Self in the…
Driven by my passion to find a better way to support the healing of individuals with OCD as well as their families, I’ve concluded that therapists need a greater variety of effective tools to address some of the missing pieces in OCD treatment. My experience and research over the past decade have demonstrated that the…
Developing this approach to treating OCD has been a highly integrative experience for me, drawing from many facets of both my personal and professional experience. I studied at Pacifica Graduate Institute because of its interdisciplinary and cutting-edge approach. My Education and Training Like many clinicians in the early ’90s, I was trained in psychoanalytically based…
Despite having doubt and fear as their nearly constant companions, roughly half of all individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are not getting the help they need (National Institute of Mental Health). They aren’t getting diagnosed early enough, they’re paying for years of therapy that isn’t helping, or they’re avoiding treatment entirely because they see it…
IFS Talks has long been one of my favorite podcasts, so it was an honor to speak with Aníbal Henriques and Alexia Rothman about understanding OCD through an IFS lens.
In this episode of The OCD Stories podcast, Melissa Mose discusses her therapy story, what is Internal Family Systems therapy (IFS), the idea of parts of us, merging IFS with exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), OCD being a cluster of parts, thinking about parts of self during exposures, and much more.
In this episode of The One Inside podcast, Melissa Mose discusses the challenges of being the parent of a child with OCD from both the perspective of having been the parent and as a therapist who works with parents.
