YouthCare is a residential treatment center that specializes in providing treatment for teens and young adults with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). We provide individualized treatment plans tailored to a young person's unique needs and strengths, including evidence-based therapies, family and group counseling, and medication management. Our experienced and caring staff are committed to providing the highest quality of care and support to youth and their families, helping them understand and manage their OCD symptoms, and ultimately helping them lead more fulfilling lives.
OCD can be paralyzing and hijack your life. Skills from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) can help you change your relationship to obsessive thoughts and channel your behaviors toward living your values more fully.
OCD can feel limiting and time-consuming. Facing OCD can increase life satisfaction. We can use exposure therapy principles to help you break unhelpful cycles of behaviors that never fully do what they promise - bring peace. Learning to distinguish between obsessions and compulsions is an important first step, followed by building skills to be with discomfort (rather than driven to reduce discomfort) and take action toward meaningful life goals.
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)- a type of CBT- is the gold-standard treatment for OCD. We use ERP to treat all varieties of OCD, including contamination OCD, intrusive thoughts, perfectionism, symmetry OCD, harm OCD, scrupulosity OCD, and more.