Mental Health Guides

Welcome to The Anxiety Center’s Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program. This program is designed to provide teens and their families with high quality evidence based mental health care in a supportive outpatient setting. Our adolescent IOP serves teens between the ages of 14 and 17. The program is rooted in evidence based treatments that help individuals manage anxiety regulate emotions and build effective coping skills. The Adolescent IOP is a group based program that oper

Starting an Intensive Outpatient Program for anxiety or OCD can feel overwhelming. Many people come in with the same fears and questions. Those concerns are completely valid. Below are the most common concerns we hear from patients before starting IOP. What if my anxiety or OCD looks different from everyone else’s? This is one of the most common concerns we hear. It is also one of the most misunderstood. While the themes and triggers of anxiety and OCD can look different from

Sometimes the hardest part isn’t the thoughts themselves, it’s the feeling that you can’t trust your own mind anymore. You catch yourself...

You don’t need visible rituals to be struggling with OCD. Maybe your thoughts feel stuck in a loop. Or your actions don’t feel like a...

It starts with a whisper you can’t ignore. “Did I lock the door?” “What if I hurt someone?” “Am I a bad person for thinking that?” You...