OCD and Anxiety Center Children's Residential Care

Our campus in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin is a safe, secure environment where parents can rest assured their child is receiving quality care while living on site for approximately 45 to 60 days.

Treatment components

Each child’s treatment at Rogers is unique to their needs. They will experience individual and group therapy with a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist, a therapist, and a behavioral specialist several times a week.

In these sessions, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the proven effective foundation of care, along with an emphasis on exposure and response prevention (ERP) for OCD and anxiety. Both are treatments of choice for OCD and anxiety.

We help each child reduce symptoms as they learn to identify and correct errors in thinking and gain skills to manage thoughts that can impact behavior. With ERP, they develop hierarchies to gradually increase exposure to their obsessions and compulsions—and learn to manage them.

Experiential therapy is important, too. Walking on a trail, planting spring flowers, being challenged on a ropes course, spending time with a pet… all are experiences that help build communication, cooperation, confidence, and skills like problem-solving.

Treatment and therapy may also include: 

• Medication management
• Nutrition and health education 
• Field trips and outings
• Spiritual care
• Personal recovery plan for continuing care

Family involvement 

Parents and family members play an important role in successful treatment outcomes. Family education and therapy sessions help parents and their child work through common challenges and build stronger relationships.

Parent University helps parents and caregivers become familiar with the types of treatment and terminology a child learns during treatment. Through a series of educational seminars, our clinical staff helps parents feel more confident and comfortable in applying the principles they learn, and by joining in, it helps ensure a successful transition back home.

Education services and advocacy 

We help children stay as active in school as possible during their stay with daily school sessions. Rogers’ certified teachers will, with consent, work directly with a child’s school to assess educational needs and help with reintegration.

Our unique environment allows our staff to gauge a child’s ability to interact with other children, to assess their progress in therapy activities, and see first-hand how they will react when facing a variety of challenging situations.

We provide structured therapeutic treatment seven days per week. Here’s what a typical weekday looks like:

In addition to the individual sessions with the psychiatrist and other treatment team members scheduled throughout the day and week, residential care specialists are available 24 hours a day. The residential care specialists provide assistance and one-to-one support to help children stay compliant with treatment, set daily goals, problem solve, identify their feelings and assist with other issues that may be part of the treatment plan.

Our staff members excel at connecting with the children in their care. They know how to strike a balance between enthusiastically guiding a child through the center’s activities and providing emotional support during challenging situations or tough transitions.

Children in our care have access to a full range of health specialists specifically trained for their age group, including:

• Board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrists
• Licensed clinical psychologists
• Master’s level therapists
• Behavioral specialists
• Pediatric, family practice and internal medicine physicians
• Registered psychiatric nurses
• Registered dietitians
• Experiential therapists
• Certified teachers
• Child and adolescent trained counselors

Our staff stays up-to-date with the latest advances in emotional and behavioral treatment and can provide valuable guidance to help children reach their goals.