The Kathryn Zox Show: Therapy for OCD

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…

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What Is Self-Led Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)?

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facilitates an experiential process of internal differentiation among the parts of a person that may have distorted or outdated views and feelings.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…

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Individual Therapy

Internal Family Systems: What is IFS and How is it Used in Therapy?

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…

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My Personal Journey to Become an OCD and Anxiety Therapist

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…

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