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.
About The OCD Stories Podcast
Stu Ralph is one of the OCD community’s gems. He donates so much of his time to sharing the stories of others and raising awareness about OCD and he does so in such a Self-led, curious and open-minded way. I am thrilled that he has invited me and others to come onto the show and discuss using IFS with OCD.
My approach tends to be different that some IFS therapists who talk about using IFS with OCD. As I explain to Stu, I do think that OCD requires some expertise as many types of OCD are tough to recognize and therapists can fall into interactions such as reassurance that actually make OCD worse. That said, IFS is perfectly suited to treat OCD because it is not talk therapy and it is inherently experiential. This conversation begins to highlight some of the highlights of my upcoming book which conceptualized OCD through the lens of parts and multiplicity.
Find out more about Melissa
- Website: https://www.melissamosemft.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melissamosemft/
Resources
- OCD SoCal: http://ocdsocal.org/
- No bad parts book by Dr Richard Schwartz: https://amzn.to/3F2ch0T
- Greater than the sum of our parts audiobook by Dr Richard Schwartz: https://amzn.to/3F1O1fe
- Dr Eli Lebowitz: SPACE episode
- Resources: https://theocdstories.com/resources
- Link to the episode
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