• OCD treatment follows currently accepted treatment guidelines in providing individual, comprehensive behavior therapy. This approach incorporates cognitive therapy, exposure and response prevention, and family support to alleviate obsessions and compulsions in children, adolescents, and adults. Therapeutic options include brief intensive treatment, in vivo therapy, family education, school consultation, life counseling, and others.

  • Treatment for BFRBs (hair pulling disorder and skin picking disorder) has been offered at BTC for over two decades. Comprehensive cognitive behavioral treatment for BFRBs is provided using a treatment model developed at BTC and described in professional publications authored by BTC staff members. Therapy is geared to the specific needs of each individual, with special considerations given to family and parental involvement in treatment of children and adolescents. Click here for our current BFRB Therapy Program, which combines group and individual therapy.

  • Compulsive Hoarding is characterized by the acquisition of, and failure to discard a large number of objects that appear useless or of limited value. It results in unusable living spaces and significant distress or impairment. The specialized Compulsive Hoarding Treatment offers individual therapy services that target the nature of hoarding and its impact on many aspects of life (including physical and emotional health, interpersonal relationships, and self-esteem). Treatment focuses on skills to address hoarding problems, strategies to work on setbacks, and possible barriers to the decluttering process. In vivo sessions (“home visits”) emphasize the practice of decluttering skills with assistance, while challenging associated thoughts and feelings in the moment and developing situation-specific strategies.