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…
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…
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.
