In episode 402 I chat with Melissa Mose. Melissa is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who treats OCD. Melissa is president of the IOCDF affiliate OCD SoCal.

We discuss 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. Hope it helps.

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Find out more about Melissa: 

Website: https://www.melissamosemft.com/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melissamosemft/ 

Resources: 

OCD SoCal: http://ocdsocal.org/  

No bad parts book by Dr Richard Schwartz: https://amzn.to/3F2ch0T 

Greater than the sum of our parts audiobook by Dr Richard Schwartz: https://amzn.to/3F1O1fe 

Dr Eli Lebowitz: SPACE episode

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All the best,

Stuart