What Is Hoarding Disorder
Hoarding disorder is an obsessive-compulsive need to accumulate things or animals excessively. Objects can be gathered by purchasing, collecting free bits and pieces, dumpster diving, stealing, and leftovers from a previous loss, as well as by other means. Due to the excessive buildup of stuff or animals, an overwhelming amount of clutter is seen by onlookers. Since people engaging in hoarding behaviors experience difficulties with discarding items whether they are valuable or not, space typically becomes very limited.
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More about Sherrie L. King, M.S, LPC, GC-C
Sherrie L. King is part of the Flourishing Hope Counseling team. She is an excellent clinician. Mrs. King is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Grief Counselor with over eight years of experience has transformed her life after enduring narcissistic abuse. Thriving in her recovery, she has helped countless children, adolescents, spouses, and adult children of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) parents.
Sherrie understands the heightened levels of distress, grief, PTSD, family estrangement, and abandonment these individuals face due to the complexities of the NPD family dynamic. She is dedicated to healing the mother wound and, as a post-trauma thriver with 15 years of no contact, she knows firsthand the importance of being heard and understood on the healing journey.