OCD Recovery Center

The OCD Recovery Center is a specialized residential treatment program designed for individuals whose obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) requires a higher level of care and daily therapeutic support. Within a structured, supportive living environment, residents engage in intensive, evidence-based treatment that addresses both the clinical and functional impact of OCD. Our residential setting allows individuals to practice skills in real time, with consistent guidance from a multidisciplinary team trained in OCD-specific care, including exposure and response prevention. Treatment is highly individualized, balancing therapeutic challenge with compassion and stability. By integrating treatment into everyday life, the OCD Recovery Center helps residents build confidence, resilience, and lasting tools for recovery.

What is ODC (Obsessive Compulsive Disoreder)?

Obsessions are unwanted, intrusive thoughts, images, or urges that trigger intensely distressing feelings. Compulsions are behaviors or thoughts an individual engages in to attempt to get rid of the obsessions and/or decrease distress or to prevent something bad from happening.

Most people experience unwanted or intrusive thoughts from time to time, and many of us have occasionally checked a door or appliance again even when we were fairly sure it was already taken care of. Having these experiences does not mean someone has “a little OCD.”

Obsessive‑compulsive disorder (OCD) is diagnosed only when obsessions and compulsions become so intense and persistent that they take up a significant amount of time (typically more than an hour a day), cause marked distress, or interfere with activities that matter to the person. Someone has OCD when these symptoms significantly impair their ability to work, attend school, maintain relationships, or participate fully in their community.

Facts about OCD

  • About 1 in 40 adults currently have OCD. That’s over three million adults in the United States, or the populations of Phoenix, AZ and Philadelphia, PA combined.
  • About 2.2 million children in the United States have OCD.
  • OCD affects men, women, and children of all races, ethnicities, and backgrounds.
  • On average, it takes over 7 years for an individual to receive an accurate OCD diagnosis.
  • More than ⅔ of the public cannot accurately identify OCD.
  • There is effective treatment for OCD
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We will treat all subtypes of OCD and almost all with have a combination of these symptoms:

Fear of coming into contact with perceived contaminated substances/things, such as:

  • Body fluids (e.g., urine, feces)
  • Germs/disease (e.g., herpes, HIV, COVID-19)
  • Environmental contaminants (e.g., asbestos, radiation)
  • Household chemicals (e.g., cleaners, solvents, battery acid)
  • Dirt
  • Fear of being responsible for something terrible happening (e.g., fire, burglary, car accident)
  • Relationship-related obsessions (e.g., excessive concern about whether one’s partner is “the one,” the partner’s flaws and qualities)
  • Fear of harming others because of not being careful enough (e.g., dropping something on the ground that might cause someone to slip and themselves)
  • Fears of sexually harming children, relatives, or others
  • Excessive concern about evenness or exactness
  • Excessive concern with a need to know or remember
  • Fear of losing or forgetting important information when throwing something out
  • Excessive concern with performing tasks “perfectly” or “correctly”
  • Fear of making mistakes

Unwanted thoughts or mental images related to sex, including:

  • Fears of acting on a sex-related impulse
  • Fears of performing aggressive sexual behaviors towards others
  • Fear of offending God, damnation, and/or concern about blasphemy
  • Excessive concern with right/wrong or morality

 

  • Excessive concern with one’s sexual orientation.
  • Excessive concern with one’s gender identity.
  • These types of obsessions can center around romantic partners, relatives, friends, and other relationships (also known as relationship obsessions).
  • Obsessions about death/existence (e.g., excessive preoccupation with existential and philosophical themes, such as death, the universe, and one’s role in “the grand scheme.”
  • Real event/false memory obsessions (e.g., excessive concern about things that happened in the past and what impacts they may have had)
  • Emotional contamination obsessions (e.g., fear of “catching” personality traits or personal characteristics of other individuals)

Evidence Based OCD treatments we offer

Exposure and response prevention (ERP)

Exposure and response prevention (ERP) is a type of treatment from behavior therapy that is widely used in the treatment of OCD. It is considered the first-line psychological treatment due to its very strong evidence base and effectiveness in reducing symptoms and improving functioning in people with OCD. Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is an evidence-based therapy that helps people gradually face fears, thoughts, or situations that trigger anxiety—without relying on compulsions or avoidance. Over time, this process teaches the brain that anxiety can rise and fall on its own, reducing the power those fears have. ERP is not about forcing, flooding, or retraumatizing someone, and it does not require eliminating thoughts or seeking constant reassurance. Treatment is collaborative, structured, and paced to support long-term change, not short-term relief.

Medication

Psychiatrist on staff, medication reviews as needed/if needed.

Combining ERP and Medication Treatment

Combining ERP with medication is a common treatment plan for many with OCD. The research behind this approach is inconclusive as to whether a combined treatment is better than doing either treatment alone. Clinical experience tells us that a combined approach may be better for people with more severe symptoms and/or comorbid mental health conditions.

Payment

  • Private pay (check, credit card or wire transfer)
  • Combination of private pay and financial assistance grants
  • In-network commercial insurance provider with select carriers
  • Out of network commercial insurance benefit may cover portion of care
  • Public pay, some residents may be referred to treatment by their community mental health provider (CMH)
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