2.7. Hoarding

Hi, and welcome to this week’s blog post on our series on Hoarding. In the other posts in this series, we have been preparing you for taking this important step to support your loved one. It’s important to talk about

Hi, welcome to this blog post on hoarding. where we are focusing on staging an intervention, and to keep it simple, we will be breaking it down into 4 simple steps. We have previously discussed (in step 1) how as

Hi, welcome to this blog post on hoarding. This post is dedicated to the relatives and friends of hoarders, which are usually the ones that are aware of the problem, sometimes a long time before the hoarder realises what they’re

Hi, and welcome to this blog post on hoarding, where we’ll be looking at other mental health problems which were mentioned in a past post. Mental health issues aren’t straighforward to spot, and neither is it straightforward to pinpoint their

In this post of the hoarding mini-series, we will focus on the possible causes (and consequences) for hoarding and understanding that everybody is different and there could be many reasons as to why the person is hoarding. Different people will

Hi, and welcome to this post on hoarding, where we’ll be talking about some causes of hoarding (and why focusing on the individual is important. As a counsellor, I am aware of the medical model, which focuses on making a

Hi, and welcome to this blog post on hoarding where we will be focusing on 3 consequences of hoarding on the person’s well-being. Many aspects of well-being can be impacted when someone has too much clutter and keeps acquiring material

Hi, and welcome to this Hoarding mini-series blog post, where we’ll be talking about what hoarding is, from a psychological and a practical perspective. The psychological effects of hoarding are intertwined with the more tangible aspects of hoarding. For example,

Hi, and welcome to this blog post series. I originally wrote this series with Stacey Sabido, right before the pandemic hit in 2020. We had planned to work in a holistic way, where she’d go into your home and help