Melissa Mose: Integrating IFS and ERP for OCD (#511)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In episode 511 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 new book for therapists on internal family systems therapy (IFS) for OCD, what is IFS, integrating IFS and exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), working with parts that get in the way of therapy, noticing and working with OCD parts, understanding parts of us, understanding OCD parts in detail so that we can notice intuition better, and much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The OCD Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.5 | The OCD Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding around obsessive, |
| 0:11.1 | compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, psychologists, and people |
| 0:16.8 | who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD Stories. |
| 0:25.9 | And welcome to episode 511 of the OCD Stories podcast. And in this one, I got back on Melissa Moes. Melissa is a licensed marriage and family therapist |
| 0:32.6 | who treats OCD. Melissa is president of the ISDF affiliate OCD SoCal. And just on that note, OCD SoCal are running a two-day |
| 0:42.8 | online OCD conference on November the 15th and 16th of this year, obviously. And if you're |
| 0:50.6 | interested in that or want to attend, I'll put a link in the show notes, or you can just Google OCD, SoCal, to find out more. |
| 1:00.5 | So in this episode, we discuss her new book for therapists on integrating internal family systems therapy for OCD. |
| 1:07.7 | What is IFS, which is obviously internal family systems therapy for short, integrating |
| 1:13.2 | IFS and exposure response prevention therapy, working with parts that get in the way of therapy, noticing |
| 1:19.8 | and working with OCD parts, understanding parts of us, understanding OCD parts in detail so that we can |
| 1:26.4 | notice intuition better and much, |
| 1:29.0 | much more. So IFS is a much more relational therapy. So I think it's a really nice addition, |
| 1:36.1 | or maybe a nice addition to OCD, you be the judge, I should say nice addition to ELP or IBCBT. |
| 1:44.5 | So, yeah, I'm probably going to cover more relational-based therapies because we've got the |
| 1:50.1 | kind of behavioral element covered. |
| 1:52.2 | So we can look more at the relational as well as the behavioral and integrating the two. |
| 1:57.5 | And thanks to our podcast partners, no CD. |
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