IOP Built By a Founder Who Spent 10+ Years Searching for Effective OCD Treatment

Highly recommend The OCD Treatment Center! After struggling with obsessive thoughts for quite some time, I decided to reach out for help when things got too difficult to manage alone. I was pretty nervous to set up my first appointment, but Portia was extremely kind and welcoming when I made the call. My experience with my therapist Alyssa was nothing but amazing. She is a very calm, patient, and attentive person with a nice sense of humor too. She made me feel comfortable during our sessions and there was no judgement whatsoever. I couldn’t be more grateful for all the time she took to teach me the tools to break the OCD cycle and not let the obsessive thoughts control me. Good luck to whoever is reading this, you or your loved one can make it to the other side! :)

This place is amazing. It's been about 8 months now since I finished the three week intensive outpatient program and I just had to come on here and share my experience because my time here seriously changed my life and I just have so much gratitude for this center and the people that work here. I was skeptical about the program at first because I had spent a lot of time in regular therapy for my OCD and no one was able to help me get past some compulsions I had been dealing with for over 10 years that seriously interfered with my daily life but what they do here truly works. I still have hard days sometimes but my OCD is so much more under control than it was before coming here! I am so glad I took a leap of faith and let these people help me. I pretty much had given up hope that I would ever be able to get past some of my biggest and most problematic compulsions but with the guidance and support I got from this place I was able to get my OCD under control and start living the life that I want and I can't thank them enough!

It’s been about 5 months since I began the IOP at the OCD Treatment Center, and I feel like it’s finally been long enough for me to say that this program—and Madasen in specific—completely changed, and likely even saved, my life. Before starting this program, I was attending school once or twice a week and was barely able to leave the house. I felt like there was no way out of the hole I was in, and I was unsure that a three-week program would be enough to help me. Thankfully, I was completely wrong. When I took my first assessment before beginning the IOP, my OCD symptoms were severe, and by the end of the program, my symptoms were already subclinical.

The one-on-one format of the program, combined with daily sessions and “homework” in between them, was exactly what I needed to break the cycle I was in. Before this, weekly therapy just wasn’t cutting it for me. I’d leave sessions feeling motivated but would almost immediately fall back into compulsions, always telling myself I’d start making real changes “tomorrow.” Dedicating three weeks to focus on my recovery paid off in a big way, and I ended up being able to finish my last semester of college on the best foot possible, both academically and personally.

Madasen made me feel safe enough to open up about my obsessions and compulsions more honestly than I ever had before, and having the opportunity to work with someone who has personal experience with OCD was an absolute game-changer for me. I never felt like I had to fear being judged for what I was experiencing, and she truly helped me understand for the first time that my OCD is not my fault, nor do my thoughts and obsessions align with who I am as a person and what I really want in my life.

If you’re reading these reviews and thinking you’re the outlier and that you can’t be helped, I was right there with you before I started the IOP, and today, my life is exponentially better in ways that I cannot even put into words. I now have the tools and confidence to handle triggers when they arise, and I am no longer living in fear. While I still have difficult days, they’re far less common than the good ones. Now, even a day that might seem mediocre to most feels incredible to me, because even if I’m spending my day studying, for example, at least I’m free.

If you're struggling and unsure where to turn for help, I strongly encourage you to reach out to the incredible team at The OCD Treatment Center. I cannot recommend this program, and especially Madasen, highly enough.

Take the leap, put your all in, and commit time to building the life you want. I’m confident you’ll come out of treatment stronger and more self-assured than before.

You got this!

The OCD Treatment Center staff and program genuinely changed my life. I thought I was stuck with my severe OCD for the rest of my life and it was not until I started working with Madasen that I started to see a change. At The OCD Treatment Center, Brad's framework consists of three main factors: skill set, tool set, and mindset. My mindset was so low, as I have been living with severe OCD for the past 15 years! I got so used to hiding my OCD and compulsions, that I felt so hopeless. The first week of the IOP really delves into the psychoeducation behind OCD and although this first week felt like a month, I learned SO much! Heading into the second week of the IOP, I was equipped with the knowledge to better understand my OCD, meanwhile we had done a lot to create a separation between myself and my OCD. We are NOT our OCD. We are NOT our scary/uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. Madasen really showed me that this mindset and the tools truly do work. It was NOT easy work, but I felt so supported along the way. Madasen and Brad truly invest their time, energy, and compassion into your healing journey.

I looked at a lot of facilities before deciding on The OCD Treatment Center. I had pursued OCD treatment from an online source the year prior and was so discouraged when it was not working. So this time, I knew I wanted to really do my research and do treatment right. The OCD Treatment Center was everything they promised to be and more. When I had gone in initially to meet the staff and see the facility, Brad (who is the founder and I'm sure a VERY busy man), offered to take over and answer any of my questions so that his staff could go to lunch. He did not have to do that but it was his kindness and his genuine belief in my ability to get better and overcome OCD that ultimately made me continue with the IOP at their facility.

I could write a book about all the ways in which Madasen, Brad, and the The OCD Treatment Center genuinely changed my life and actually gave me my life back. OCD and compulsions were taking up 8+ hours of my day and now I am pretty much compulsion free!!! I got my power back and all the work we did helped me realize I have a choice in the matter. My OCD does not run my life anymore, I do!!

Of course I have good and bad days still. However, the tools and skills I built with Madasen really do provide and support me through the harder, more stressful days. My OCD does not define me and I am forever grateful for the guidance and unwavering support from The OCD Treatment Center team. My life is forever changed because of them.

This review is from my son who just completed an intensive outpatient with Madasen.

The OCD Treatment Center helped me control my ocd for the first time in my life. They use evidence based treatment methods, and explain each step of the way, so I felt as if I was making clear progress. I've gained the tools necessary to stop any future relapse of symptoms on my own.

The OCD Treatment Center changed my life. If you are on the fence about seeking intensive treatment, do it. I was absolutely terrified to start for so many reasons. But I'm so glad I did it; it was worth every penny. My experience here made me feel seen, heard, and helped in a way different than any other therapist or clinic had before.

They tailor treatment to each individual, which is truly a critical piece to recovery, as each person's OCD manifests in different ways. They not only gave me the tools I need to recover, but they explained the "how" and the "why" behind them. They helped me comb throught my OCD with a fine toothed comb so that I was able to fully understand it and recognize it from a mile away. This was a game changer because it helped me establish a foundation for recovery and to fully trust the process.

I was worried that I would be treatment resistant or that my OCD was the "worst" but I now know better. Not only did we practice ERP, but they helped me change my core foundational beliefs about myself and my outlook on life. Although ERP is hard, I know have the confidence and experience to know that I can face my biggest fears head on, and that the feelings that come with that will not kill me. I am strong enough to handle it.

Recovery from OCD is so much more than ERP; it takes self compassion, acceptance, developing healthy core beliefs, recognizing cognitive distortions, being cognizant of what your OCD looks like and how it manifests for YOU, having a support system, and having trust in not only the process, but yourself. The OCD treatment center helped me in all of these areas, all of which have been integral to my recovery. I will be forever grateful to the OCD treatment center, but especially to my therapist Madasen, and Brad. They are amazing and will change your life; I know they did for me.

I took the intensive program with Brad Wilson. I was highly skeptical in the beginning of the program about how much the program would be able to help me with my severe OCD in three weeks. I was quickly proven wrong. First and foremost, I'd like to say that Brad is the best OCD therapist I've ever worked with. He is able to diagnose, trouble shoot, and motivate clients to help them with their OCD so that they take ownership and personal accountability of their disorder. He also was able to personalize the program and is very creative about making visual presentations and imagery so that clients can see a healing path for their OCD from a more systematic, yet, flexible approach. I've personally been to Rogers IOP and UCLA's IOP, and did not get near the same results as with the OCD Treatment Center. With Brad personally working with me for three hours a day for three weeks, I felt like he gave me the "keys" to the handbook on how to treat my OCD including using the right tools, having the right mindset, and skillset to use the tools. Having the right mindset is one of the keys to his program, because the goal is to cut down performing compulsions as much as possible (even to zero), so I found it extremely important to pay attention to this aspect of the program while having the grit and determination, in combination with the tools, to overcome the OCD cycle and free up my life. I highly recommend this program.

The OCD treatment center is one of those places that really understands OCD, both in the complexity of its manifestations and the naunces of treatment. My therapist, Tiffany, has been a key part of my recovery---from developing effective strategies and tools for treatment, to helping me better understand the person I am. I'm very grateful for the OCD treatment center.