I was honored to be featured on a recent podcast exploring new ways to understand and treat OCD. While traditional approaches to OCD can be life-changing for many, there are still clients who don’t find full relief and who need care that honors both their symptoms and their internal experience. My work focuses on integrating…
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facilitates an experiential process of internal differentiation among the parts of a person that may have distorted or outdated views and feelings.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…
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.
Work in a thriving Calabasas private practice, specializing in working with children, adolescents, and adults with OCD and anxiety! Melissa Mose, LMFT is seeking an AMFT interested in learning to effectively treat OCD and anxiety disorders, and/or a licensed therapist with experience in this domain, and an interest in utilizing integrative approaches, including IFS. These…
This information provided by OCD SoCal: About this event Join us for the 6th annual OCD Southern California conference–a virtual event this year! We are thrilled to present a diverse panel of keynote speakers who will share their inspirational stories about their struggles and triumphs with OCD. Following the keynote speakers, there will be a…
This weekend, the International OCD Foundation is excited to present the 2022 Online OCD Camp. This will be a two-day virtual event for kids and teens with OCD, and their families! This online camp was created especially for youth between the ages of 6 and 17. It will feature two days of interactive sessions and activities for…
