Felix Murad, LPC-S, LMHC, CMHC, NCC
Clinical Care for OCD, Anxiety, Trauma, and Shame-Based Stuck Points
I work with adults struggling with OCD, intrusive and taboo thoughts, anxiety, trauma, and the kind of shame that keeps people stuck in silence.
Treatment is structured, evidence-based, and designed to help you stop responding to OCD instead of getting stuck trying to think your way out of it.
A Focused Clinical Practice, Led by Felix Murad
Felix Murad, M.Ed., LPC-S, brings over a decade of high-acuity clinical experience to the table. Licensed in Texas, Washington, and New Hampshire. Registered to provide Telehealth in Florida, Felix specializes in the intersection of complex diagnostics and systemic stressors. While his experience over the past 10+ years has given him the opportunity to help many people with different presenting problems. Felix specializes and works best with clients who are living with OCD, BFRB’s (skin picking, hair pulling, etc.), Anxiety, and Trauma. He also treats commonly co-occurring diagnosis that tend to show up.
The Failure of Generalist
Most of my clients arrive having already “done therapy.” It provided support, but it did not provide targeted treatment. There is a clinical reason for that: generalist care often misses complexity. Not because they are bad therapists but the diagnoses I specialize in require specialized care and consultation to work ethically.
Talk therapy can sometimes make OCD worse when it turns into reassurance, rumination, or endless analysis. In my experience, many clients were previously misdiagnosed or treated with general therapy before finally receiving ERP for the first time.
Precision Matters
In this practice, we don’t guess. Evidence-based treatment is not a suggestion; it is the framework. OCD does not yield to talk therapy; it requires Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). Trauma is not managed through willpower; it is integrated through EMDR. Habitual behaviors (BFRBs) are not “bad habits”,they are neurological loops that require Habit Reversal Training (HRT). Applying a general approach to a specific pathology is why the needle stops moving.
Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor (TX)
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Registered Telehealth Provider-LMHC (FL)
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Licensed Mental Health Therapist (WA)
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Clinical Mental Health Counselor (NH)
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What Good Therapy Actually Is
Good therapy is not a weekly check-in, and it is not open-ended conversation with no direction. Good therapy is structured, evidence-based, and honest. It draws on what the research actually supports, applied to you specifically, not a generalized version of your presenting concern. It asks something of you. And it is grounded in a genuine clinical relationship, not a transactional one. Felix’s practice is built on this: humanistic at its core, evidence-based in its methods, direct in its delivery. The right treatment depends on the diagnosis. OCD, trauma, panic, and BFRBs each have evidence-based approaches that are distinct, and distinct for a reason.
Clinical Philosophy
My clinical philosophy is that therapy should be clear, direct, and anchored in change. Insight matters, but insight alone is cheap if nothing shifts outside the room. People are not weak for struggling, and they are not healed by being handled softly forever. Real work means identifying what is maintaining the problem, making space for discomfort, and building new ways of responding that actually hold under stress. The relationship matters, but it serves the work. The goal is not to sound deep. The goal is to help people live with more freedom, more honesty, and less control from fear.
What Working With Felix Looks Like
Sessions are structured and purposeful, never aimless. Depending on what you came in for, you will know the framework, why it is being used and what progress looks like. Felix brings clinical rigor without clinical distance. He will be direct with you. He will tell you what he thinks. He will also sit with you in the hard parts without trying to resolve them prematurely. He has done his own work. That matters not as a credential, but as a reason the relationship feels different. He is not performing neutrality. He is genuinely engaged.
What to Expect
Felix outside the office
What inspires me when I’m not in therapy sessions.
Politics, philosophy, showing respect, and the kind of debate where both sides leave a little sharper.
Sundays with a game on, a good book on the nightstand. Keeps the mind honest. So does music while completing boring task.
AI, Bitcoin, finance, living a meaningful life based on my values; staying genuinely curious about where things are heading.
The Quality Problem in Mental Health
There is a significant gap between what therapy can be and what most people experience when they access it. Insurance-driven models prioritize volume. Group practices often rely on less experienced clinicians. Modality training is inconsistent. The result: most people have been to therapy before and come away feeling like it did not really work. This practice exists as a deliberate alternative. Small caseload. Specialist focus. Evidence-based methods applied with genuine care. The goal is to do the work well, not just to fill a schedule.
HOW TREATMENT IS PERSONALIZED HERE
Treatment Is Matched to the Problem, Not Forced Into a Generic Format
Good therapy is not just supportive. It is specific. OCD is not treated like generalized anxiety. Trauma is not treated like everyday stress. BFRBs are not treated like bad habits. In this practice, treatment planning begins with understanding what is actually driving the problem, what has already been tried, and where you keep getting stuck.
If OCD is driving the problem
ERP becomes central. ACT may be used to help you stay engaged with uncertainty instead of organizing life around rituals, reassurance, or avoidance.
If trauma is still living in the nervous system
EMDR may be considered when the past still feels present. Treatment planning also considers stability, pacing, and what you can actually tolerate.
If anxiety has quietly organized life around avoidance
Treatment looks at predictions, escape patterns, and the rules anxiety has built into daily life. The goal is more than short-term symptom relief.
If BFRBs are the issue
HRT and related behavioral work target awareness, triggers, motor patterns, and competing responses more precisely than general talk therapy can.
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