What We Do

Child, Teen & Family Therapy

I help parents gain some perspective on what’s going on in their child’s mind, including the neurological changes that occur during adolescence

Group Therapy

Group therapy works because it fosters connections between people facing similar life issues. Often we tend to dwell on the problems…

Individual Therapy

With practice and insight we can learn to be less driven by our fears, less reactive to our own thoughts as well as the actions of others…

Meet Melissa Mose, LMFT

mellissamose-2

Melissa Mose is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Calabasas, CA for 30 years. She primarily treats anxiety, OCD, addiction, relational issues and trauma using Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Cognitive Behavior Therapy including exposure (ERP).

Melissa works with teens and their families and has a particular interest in exploring the role of family accommodation (FA) in perpetuating OCD. She provides treatment for parents of children and teens with OCD and Anxiety using Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) combined with an IFS-informed approach to Self-led parenting.

Melissa is a graduate of the IOCDF Behavior Therapy Training Institute (BTTI) and BTTI 2 Advanced Training Forum and is currently the President of the Board of Directors of OCD Southern California, the Southern California affiliate of the IOCDF. Melissa has completed all three levels of IFS training and is a certified IFS Therapist and approved IFS consultant. She continues to work as a Program Assistant in IFS trainings. Melissa is certified to teach mindfulness and meditation and is currently the Clinical Director at the Mindfulness in Recovery Institute.

More