Rogers Behavioral Health - OCD and Anxiety for Children and Teens

Do you want to get your treatment rushed, be lied to about various things, get tricked into doing things that you didn’t consent to doing, get treated unfairly and that others are better than you, belittled and invalidated for your feelings? Then this is the place to go!

I am not sure if things have changed at this facility, however this program gave my daughter her life back in 2020. It's top notch! Yes, therapy was brutal, their were plenty of tears, however she desperately wanted the help and she knew she needed help. She put the work in and got 85 percent better. She was not able to function before she left.

I stayed at Rogers for nine weeks this spring. Overall I liked it. Most of the staff were kind and supportive, and the programming was helpful. My OCD improved a lot. However this program could be substantially improved by addressing co-occurring conditions. Many, many people with OCD also have Autism and/or ADHD, and sustained symptom relief is not likely without caring for the whole person. Therefore, I encourage Rogers to consider how it can consider Autism, ADHD, and other co-diagnoses when treating OCD.

This place changed my life John is the best therapist dudes a legend 🤞

I was pretty much out of options when I was sent to this place as the partial care I was in before with Rogers wasnt enough to treat me. I have very mixed feelings and experiences with this place so I'll start with the positives first. It was great at fully immersing me in my anxiety's and forcing my OCD to make compromises and me want to work hard to improve my symptoms. It was also a very beautiful landscape and brought peace to someone who needed to cool off and destress often. Most* of the staff were at least friendly most of the time. This is unfortunately all the good I have to say. The program on paper should work well and the treatment itself is designed well but it just didn't run at all how it should. The main therapist would meet with you somewhat often and was very friendly but for someone with severe anxiety and OCD they left you alone way to much. The same can be said about my behavioral specialist. And the other staff pretty much just sat in the offices socializing 90% of the time instead of checking in on us or helping us with exposures even when instructed to by the therapists. Also the group therapy sessions on paper are great, but there was barely any content related to what I needed and I'm sure a lot of people felt the same. If I'm being honest, it felt a lot more like we were prisoners than patients who needed help and the ankle monitor did not help that. Ultimately the program was only 20% of the reason I improved enough to get out. The other 80% was becuase I was completely miserable and drained every day and my motivation to improve was so that I didn't have to stay on minute longer than I had too. I was at my weakest and lowest point in my life here and needed the most emotional support I've ever needed and this facility provided none of that and it felt like we were just numbers for people. There was nobody I was comfortable talking to there and I fought everyday to get home to my family and friends who I was completely alone here without. I do not exxagerate when I say that the Partial programs I was in before and after were way better and guiding and providing assistance to you which is absolutely not how it should be. And when I had greatly improved my symptoms and was ready to go home, I had to fight them for two weeks to let me leave because they were hyperfixated on averages and statistics rather than my personal experience, which isn't shocking considering they rarely even checked in to see for themselves how my symptoms were. Overall if this is your only option to take your life back from OCD like it was for me I would still say to do it because even with this facilities major flaws it still will give you the motivation you need to improve your life regardless. You will probably be miserable here for many reasons but when I look back two years later, I would still do it if I went back in time because my life has completely changed for the better and I would still trade a month of my life if that meant I could live my life without OCD in control.

The medications my son was put on by the psychiatrist at Cedar Ridge - Dr. Weisensel - almost cost him his life. My son was put on two different meds for his OCD - both with known serious side effects and controversy. The psychiatrist only ever agreed to one extremely brief family meeting, over a period of three months, to discuss his treatment and then she only gave us approx. 5 minutes. At about the two-month mark, the psychiatrist had increased one of our son's meds to an extremely high level, and our son had an extreme adverse reaction, was suicidal and we almost lost him. We had requested several times to speak with the psychiatrist, along with our son, and she refused to talk with us and refused to wean him off the meds that almost caused him to take his own life. He signed an ROI by the way! Additionally, our son has been home for a week and the PHP program he was referred to, still has not received a discharge summary from Cedar Ridge and they were told that the psychiatrist is still "writing up the discharge summary." I do not feel like our son had good care from the psychiatrist at Cedar Ridge and this incompetence overshadowed his entire stay and impacted his treatment outcome. Throughout his stay, he spent and is still spending a great deal of time trying to cope with the horrible side effects from the shitty psych. drugs he was placed on and overmedicated with at Cedar Ridge.

I was wrongly sent to Rogers and the assessment team at Rogers should have caught that it was not appropriate for me to be there. I was coming there to get help for my trauma and PTSD without ever having thoughts of harming myself. They treated me like a prisoner and I had no rights in the 24 hours I was there. The phycologist told me to take some vitamin D and it might make me feel better. I was also never told I would have a roommate or have my belongings searched or have things on the list they emailed to me taken away. They also shine a light on you every 30 mins at night. They also escort you to every place you go besides the bathroom. Now I have to recover from the trauma I expirenced while staying there on top of my other PTSD. Definitely do your research and ask lots of questions before going...

Awful program. Multiple peers during my stay with better financial means went on to various other programs after their stays, due to the ineffective treatment offered at cedar ridge Rodgers. Which sucks for me. 1,000+$ dollars a day maybe exhaust all options before this one!