Hoarding Services

Online Self-Help Support Groups for Hoarders

Children of Hoarders
A group for/to support those who grew up in a hoarding environment and/or currently have a relative who hoards. Many resources, online videos, shared stories and more.

Squalor Survivors
Stories, photos, tools, community forums and chat, resources and information for people who know someone who hoards.

Additional Hoarders/Hoarding Resources

My Teleclasses

Introduction to Hoarding

Presented by Geralin Thomas, CPO-CD®

This class will provide an overview of hoarding. We will discuss the fundamental components, complexities and characteristics concerning issues involving those with a hoarding disorder.

Purchase and listen to this teleclass

If you have more specific questions or would like to speak to me privately, I offer a half hour phone consultation.

1+1 Hoarders Guidance Call – Personal+Private Half Hour Conversation with me

$50Add to Cart

Hoarders on A&E

To view episodes where I’m organizing see below (my clients are in bold). To watch episodes, please visit the A&E website, Netflix, and Get Glue.

Season 4

Verna / Joanne
Jan / Dee
Mike / Bonnie
Judy / Jerry
Beverly / Megan
Phyllis / Janet

Season 3

Michelle / Kim
Laura / Penny
Carolyn / Jo
Gordon / Sir Patrick
Kathleen / Margree
Mary Lynn / Ingrid
Andrew / Shania

Season 2

Bob / Dick
Deborah / Jim
Warren / Gail
Jill / Tra

Season 1

Kerrylea and Geoffrey / Lauren
Jennifer /Jill
Missy and Alex /Paul

Hoard House
Compulsive Clutter in NYC  – Multimedia project that explores the impact of hoarding on hoarders, psychologists, cleanup specialists and social workers for whom hoarding is a defining phenomenon.

My Mother’s Garden
An award-winning film that documents a 61-year-old woman’s daily life as a hoarder, filmed by her daughter, director Cynthia Lester.

Packrat by Kris Montag

Possessed by Martin Hampton
Enters the complicated world of four hoarders

Stuffed by Awren Curry and Cerissa Tanner
This film dispels the stereotype that all “packrats” are isolated, elderly derelicts.

Hoarding and Clutter. (2004, December 29). The Infinite Mind. Lichtenstein Creative Media.
Retrieved December 1, 2007 from http://www.lcmedia.com/mind355.htm.
Transcripts and audio may be purchased at http://lcmedia.stores.yahoo.net/hoarclut.html.

The Story of Stuff
An animated documentary about the life-cycle of material goods written and narrated by Annie Leonard. Note: critics consider the documentary to contain incorrect and misleading information and/or to be politically partisan.

Wasteland in Brazil

Books About Hoarding

To Buy or Not to Buy: Why We Overshop and How to Stop by April Lane Benson. Trumpeter, 2008.

Don’t Toss My Memories in the Trash by Vickie Dellaquila,  Mountain Publishing, 2007.

Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What by Lee Eisenberg. Free Press, 2009.

Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy Frost and Gail Steketee. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding: Why You Save and How You Can Stop by Fugen Neziroglu, Ph.D., Jerome Bubrick, Ph.D. and Jose Yaryura-Tobias, M.D.  New Harbinger Publications, July 2004

Changing For Good by J. O. Prochaska, J. C. Norcross & C. C. DiClemente. HarperCollins, New York, NY, 1994, 2002.

Compulsive Hoarding and Acquiring: Workbook and Compulsive Hoarding and Acquiring: Therapist Guide by Gail Steketee, Ph.D. and Randy Frost, Ph.D.  Oxford University Press, 2006

Buried In Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving and Hoarding by David F. Tolin, Ph.D., Randy O. Frost, Ph.D.  Oxford University Press, 2007.

Digging Out: Helping Your Loved One Manage Clutter, Hoarding, and Compulsive Acquiring by Michael A., Ph.D. Tompkins and Tamara L. Hartl. New Harbinger Publications, 2009.