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Lisle
Contact: Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D. (708) 852–3870
Open to: Individuals with OCD
Frequency: Wednesday, 7:30–9 P.M.
Location: 5007 Lincoln Ave., Suite 215
Fee: $25 per group
Professionally assisted group
Updated February 1997
Naperville
Contact: Jane Bodine, M.A. (630) 416–3146
Open to: Individuals with OCD, family, spectrum disorder; must contact leader prior to attending group
Frequency: 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 6:30–7:45 P.M.
Location: 10 W. Jefferson
Fee: $25
Professionally assisted group
Updated May 1997
Contact: Jane Bodine, M.A. (630) 416–3146
Open to: Young adults
Frequency: Wednesday, 3:30 P.M.
Location: 10 W. Jefferson
Fee: $25
Professionally assisted group
Updated May 1997
Contact: Jane Bodine, M.A. (630) 416–3146
Open to: Trichotillomania group, support people, children and adolescents
Frequency: 1st and 3rd Wednesday
Location: 10 W. Jefferson
Fee: $15
Professionally assisted group
Updated May 1997
Contact: Jane Bodine, M.A. (630) 416–3146
Open to: Individuals in current treatment
Frequency: 3–4 times a year
Location: 10 W. Jefferson
Fee: $25
Goal-oriented ERP group; ten-week therapy group
Updated May 1997
New Town Alamo Center
Contact: Patrick (312) 929–7275 or (312) 271–6822
Open to: Individuals with OCD
Frequency: Saturday (contact group leader for time)
Updated February 1997
Nortbbrook
Contact: Pam Kohlbeck, M.S. (847) 604–2502
Open to: Parents of children with OCD
Frequency: 4th Monday, 7:30 P.M.
Location: Glencoe Public Library
Professionally assisted group
Updated February 1997
Nortbfield
Contact: Karen Cassiday, Ph.D. (847) 577–8809
Open to: Individuals with OCD, family, and friends
Frequency: 1st and 3rd Monday, 7:30–9 P.M.
Location: Anxiety and Agoraphobia Treatment Center
Fee: $5 per group
Contact: Penny Silverman (847) 432–0446
Interested in starting a group for body dysmorphic disorder
Springfield
Contact: Janice Phelan (217) 523–2740
Open to: Individuals with OCD, family members
Frequency: Last Monday of the month, 5:30–7 P.M.
Location: Christ Episcopal Church, Jackson St.
Updated October 1997
INDIANA
Fort Wayne
Contact: Robert Collie, Ph.D. (219) 485–6687
Open to: Individuals with OCD and family members
Location: Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, Room 37
Frequency: Monday, 7–8:30 P.M.
Professionally assisted group
Updated July 1997
Indianapolis
Contact: Kerri Bova (317) 888–6753, Vikki Sutton (317) 963–3210, Homer (317) 576–0625, or Phil Clendenen (317) 297–0625
Open to: Individuals with OCD, family, and friends
Frequency: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Monday, 6:30 P.M.
Location: 7440 N. Shadeland Ave., Room 202
Mutual-help support group
Professionally assisted group
Updated April 1997
Contact: Kerri Bova (317) 888–6753, Vikki Sutton (317) 963–3210, Homer (317) 576–0625, or Phil Clendenen (317) 297–0625
Open to: Individuals with trichotillomania
Frequency: 2nd Monday
Location: 7440 N. Shadeland Ave., Room 202
Mutual-help support group
Professionally assisted group
Updated April 1997
Contact: Kerri Bova (317) 888–6753, Vikki Sutton (317) 963–3210, Homer (317) 576–0625, or Phil Clendenen (317) 297–0625
Open to: Individuals with general anxiety
Frequency: 4th Monday, 6:30–8 P.M.
Location: 7440 N. Shadeland Ave., Room 202
Professionally assisted group
Updated April 1997
Contact: Dr. Hilgendorf (317) 578–4213
Open to: Individuals with OCD
Frequency: Monday, 7:30–8 P.M.
Location: 7440 N. Shadeland Ave., Room 202
Professionally assisted group
Updated April 1997
South Bend
Contact: Nancy Sechrest (219) 299–1483
Open to: Individuals with OCD
Frequency: Thursday, 7 P.M.
Updated April 1997
IOWA
Iowa City
Contact: Nancee Blum (319) 353–6180
Open to: Individuals with OCD
Frequency: 2nd and 4th Thursday, 7–8:30 P.M.
Location: 1942 JPP, University of Iowa
No fee
Professionally assisted group
Updated May 1997
Contact: Nancee Blum (319) 353–6180
Open to: Family members of individuals with OCD
Frequency: 2nd Thursday, 7–8:30 P.M.
Location: 1942 JPP, University of Iowa
No fee
Professionally assisted group
Updated May 1997
KANSAS
Lenexa
Contact: Jane Condra (816) 763–8174
Open to: Individuals with OCD and family members
Frequency: Thursday, 7–9:30 P.M.
Location: CPC College Meadows Hospital, 14425 College Blvd., conference room
Self-help group
Updated May 1997
Wichita
Contact: Rob Zettle, M.D. (316) 978–3081
Open to: Individuals with OCD
Frequency: 1st and 3rd Monday, 7 P.M.
Location: Charter Hospital of Wichita, Room 23
Mutual-help support group
Updated April 1997
KENTUCKY
Lexington
Contact: Deborah A. Krause, Ph.D. (606) 271–2881
Open to: Individuals with OCD and significant others
Frequency: 1st Thursday, 7 P.M.
Professionally assisted group
Updated May 1997
Louisville
Contact: Dr. Jeff Romer, C.M.F.T. (502) 899–5991
Open to: Individuals with OCD, spectrum disorders. Contact group leader prior to attending group.
Frequency: Tuesday, 7–8:30 P.M.
Location: Lutheran Child and Family Counseling
Professionally assisted group
Updated January 1996
LOUISIANA
New Orleans
Contact: Pattie Lemonn (504) 588–5405
Open to: Individuals with OCD, family, and support people.
Contact group leader prior to attending group.
Frequency: 2nd Tuesday, 6–8 P.M.
Self-help group
Updated January 1996
MAINE
Bangor
Contact: Charles Casey (207) 794–3501 or (207) 794–3161
Open to: Individuals with OCD and family members. Contact Charles prior to attending.
Frequency: Date to be determined each meeting, 7–9 P.M.
Location: Bangor Counseling Center
Self-help group
Updated May 1997
Berwick
Contact: Sandy Skammels (603) 692–9851
Interested in starting a support group again. Contact if interested.
Updated January 1996
Clinton
Contact: Tina Couturier (207) 873–0145
Open to: Individuals with trichotillomania, family, and friends
Frequency: 3rd Friday, 7–9 P.M.
Location: Brown Memorial United Methodist Church
Self-help group
Updated January 1996
MARYLAND
Annapolis
Contact: Peg Duvall (410) 544–5918 or Charlotte Lindsley, M.S.W. (410) 263–3987
Open to: Individuals with OCD, and support people
Frequency: 1st Wednesday, 7:30–9 P.M.
Updated October 1997
Arnold
Contact: Peg Duvall (410) 544–5918 or Charlotte Lindsley, M.S.W. (410)263–3987
Open to: Individuals with OCD and family members
Frequency: First Wednesday, 7–9 P.M.
Location: Please contact group leader for location.
Updated October 1997
Kensington
Contact: Lorett Gaiser (301) 929–0156
Available twenty-four hours a day to talk with individuals with OCD or trichotillomania and guide to meetings.
Updated January 1996
Rockville
Contact: Roslyn Lehman, L.C.S.W.-C. (301) 469–0108; fax (301) 762–5711
Open to: Support for family members
Frequency: 1st Thursday, 2–4 P.M.
Location: 20 Courthouse Square, Suite 217
Self-help group
Updated April 1997
Wbeaton
Contact: David (301) 495–7806
Open to: Individuals with OCD. Contact David prior to attending.
Frequency: 1st and 3rd Tuesday, 7:30–9:30 P.M.
Location: 2424 Reedie Dr.
Self-help group
Updated January 1996
MASSACHUSETTS
Belmont
Contact: Diane Baney, R.N., M.B. (617) 855–3279
Location: OCD Institute, McLean Hospital
Partial hospital and intensive residential care for individuals seventeen and older who suffer from severe or treatment-resistant OCD.
Boston
OCF Greater Boston Affiliate
Debbie McDowell, president (781) 376–3784
Greater Boston affiliate sponsors four self-help groups: Professionally assisted group for individuals with OCD, family, and friends; Trichotillomania group; Spectrum disorders; Child and adolescents group
For further information, please call helpline: (617) 376–3784.
Contact: (617) 376–3653
Open to: Individuals with OCD
Frequency: Wednesday, 7:30 P.M.
Location: United Presbyterian Church, 32 Harvard St., basement
12-step approach, Obsessive-Compulsive Anonymous
Self-help group
Updated January 1996
Contact: Christina (617) 231–9053
Open to: Individuals with OCD and family members
Frequency: Wednesday, 7–8 P.M.
Location: Shaughnessy-Kaplan Rehabilitation Hospital
12-step approach, Obsessive-Compulsive Anonymous
Updated November 1995
Brookline
Contact: Roberta Brucker, L.I.C.S.W. (617) 499–7979
Open to: Individuals with OCD. Must contact leader prior to attending.
Frequency: Weekly for 1 1/2 hours
Fee
Professionally assisted group
Updated January 1996
Contact: Roberta Brucker, L.I.C.S.W. (617) 499–7979
Open to: Family members of individuals with OCD. Must contact leader prior to attending.
Frequency: Weekly for 1 1/2 hours
Fee
Professionally assisted group
Updated January 1996
Cambridge
Contact: HPA, P.O. Box 614, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140
Open to: Individuals with trichotillomania only
Frequency: Wednesday, 7:15–8:45 P.M.
Location: Cambridge Hospital, Macht Bldg., Room 148, 1493 Cambridge St.
12-step approach, self-help group
Updated May 1997
Chicopee
Contact: Leslie or Mary (413) 567–5633
Open to: Individuals with OCD, family and friends
Frequency: 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month, 7 P.M.
Location: Charles River Hospital, West 350 Memorial Dr.
Updated July 1997
Great Barrington
Contact: Brent (413) 229–2994
Brent is interested in starting a mutual-help support group.
Ludlow
Contact: Patricia Ricci (413) 583–6750
Open to: Family members
Frequency: Wednesday evening short-term support group
Fee
Professionally assisted group
Updated January 1996
North Cambridge
Contact: Joris Jones or David Ligon, 458–0925 (beeper) or (617) 864–9902. He will return your call.
Open to: Individuals with OCD, family, and friends
Frequency: 3rd Wednesday, 7–9 P.M.
Location: Rear Mefitz Gerald School, 70 Rindge Ave.
Self-help group
Updated January 1996
Stoughton
Contact: Phil (508) 583–3205
Open to: Individuals with OCD in treatment
Frequency: Monday, 7–9 P.M.
Location: Goddard Center, Conference Room A. Call (617) 297–8200 for directions.
Self-help group
Updated May 1997
Worcester
Contact: Ann (508) 799–6784
Open to: Individuals with OCD and family members
Frequency: Every other Tuesday, 7:30–8:30 P.M.
Location: Hahnemann Hospital, 281 Lincoln St., 4th floor, Classroom 2. Use rear entrance.
12-step approach, Obsessive-Compulsive Anonymous
Self-help group
Updated January 1996
Contact: William Ferrarone (508) 792–8785
Open to: Individuals with OCD. Must contact group leader for evaluation and diagnosis.
Frequency: Friday, 3–4:30 P.M. Follow-up group meets monthly.
Location: Psychiatric Patient Services Medical Center, 15 Belmont, Lincoln Pavillion
Updated January 1996
MICHIGAN
Ann Arbor
Contact: Mary Jo (313)761–9167
Frequency: 4th Wednesday, 6–8 P.M.
Location: Washtenaw County Mental Hospital, 2140 Ellsworth
Updated August 1997
Battle Creek
Contact: Gerda (616) 965–4529
Frequency: 3rd Tuesday, 7–9 P.M.
Location: St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, 1079 Riverside
Updated August 1997
Dearborn
Contact: Wally Green (313) 563–5200
Open to: Individuals with OCD
Frequency: 1st and 3rd Thursday, 7–9 P.M.
Location: First United Methodist Church, Garrison and Mason St.
Mutual-help support group
Updated August 1997
Escanaba
Contact: Val (906) 474–9369
Open to: Public
Frequency: 3rd Monday, 7–9 P.M.
Location: Delta Community Mental Health Building, 2820 College Avenue
Mutual-help support group
Updated August 1997
Farmington Hills
Contact: Bobbie (313) 522–8907, or write THEO (Trichotillomania Helping Each Other), P.O. Box 871083, Canton, MI 48187
Open to: Individuals with trichotillomania only
Frequency: 1st and 3rd Sunday, 1–4 P.M.
Location: Botsford Hospital, 28050 Grand River
Self-help group
Updated August 1997
Contact: Greg (313) 438–3293
Open to: Adolescents and their supporters
Frequency: 3rd Wednesday, 7–9 P.M.
Location: Davis Counseling Center Park on the Green Center, 37923 West 12 Mile Rd. Building A (between Haggerty and Halstead)
Updated August 1997
Flint
Contact: David (810) 694–4845
Open to: Individuals with OCD and family members
Frequency: 2nd Wednesday, 7–9 P.M.
Location: Perry Center, 11920 S. Saginaw St., Grand Blanc
Updated August 1997
Grand Blanc
Contact: Ellen Craine (810) 695–0055
Open to: Parents of children and adolescents with OCD
Frequency: Tuesday, once a month, 6–7:30 P.M.
Location: 8341 Office Park Dr.
Fee: Most insurance accepted
Professionally assisted group
Updated August 1997
Lake Orion
Contact: Susan (248) 628–8029
Open to: Individuals with OCD
Frequency: Every Saturday 10 A.M.
Location: The Keep Coming Back Club, 33 Broadway St.
Updated October 1997
Lansing
Contact: Jon (517) 485–6653
Open to: Individuals with OCD and family members
Frequency: 1st and 3rd Thursday, 7–9 P.M.
Location: Delta Presbyterian Church, 6100 W. Michigan Ave.
