If you’re dealing with chronic dizziness, PPPD, vestibular migraine, or other neural circuit symptoms but feel stuck—no matter what recovery tools you try—OCD or obsessive-compulsive thought patterns could be silently hijacking your progress. In this powerful interview, Dr. Yonit Arthur (The Steady Coach) sits down with Melissa Mose, licensed marriage and family therapist and pioneer…
This episode explores the intersection of OCD and sexuality through an IFS lens, examining how obsessive-compulsive tendencies can impact sexual intimacy and relationships. Guest Melissa Mose, a Certified IFS Therapist and OCD Specialist, discusses her approach to treating these conditions with an integrative approach. She shares her personal journey as a parent of a child…
When Internal Family Systems therapists first encounter clients with OCD, they often apply the framework they know: find the exile, unburden the belief, watch the protectors stand down. It works beautifully in most presentations. With OCD, it doesn’t — and the confusion that follows is clinically costly. Clients usually don’t improve the way they should.…
There is something quietly thrilling happening at the intersection of Internal Family Systems therapy and OCD treatment. Clinicians who have trained in both worlds are increasingly finding that these frameworks don’t just coexist — they actively strengthen each other. And yet, this integration also carries real risk if it’s done without a solid grounding in…
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facilitates an experiential process of internal differentiation among the parts of a person that may have distorted or outdated views and feelings.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.
