hoarding

Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), Laura Lokers, has specialized training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and has extensive experience in identifying and treating hoarding disorders. Part 1: [...]

About the Speaker, Laura Lokers Laura Lokers is a founding member of the Washtenaw County Task Force. She is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) and worked in the University of Michigan’s [...]

The Kalamazoo Hoarding Task Force (KHTF) gathered together to answer questions directly from the community. At this event, KHTF representatives and Matt Paxton, extreme cleaning specialist from [...]

Back by Popular Demand: Matt Paxton Visiting Kalamazoo   —Event Has Passed— Watch video below for highlights of Matt Paxton’s seminar View related Matt Paxton topics: What [...]

A big thank you to everyone involved in our efforts and community events these past couple months. We have been very busy, as you probably are to, and we want to share a few things that (1) you [...]

Education about Hoarding The KHTF wants our community to be educated about hoarding. The need for helping hoarders is on the rise, and the disorder is being talked about, studied, and relatively [...]

Do you need the best information about hoarding? Or maybe need to know how to deal with a hoarder? Matt Paxton, from TV Series “Hoarders: Family Secrets”, is an extreme cleaning and [...]

Watch Hoarders Episodes TV Series Back on Air “Hoarders” was cancelled in 2013, but the show is back at the end of May with a slightly different title–“Hoarders: Family [...]

Informing Our Community Since February 2015, we’ve had 100’s of insurance agents, insurance adjusters, and the general community come to our newly offered “Extreme Cleanup: Handling a Hoarding [...]

Interview with Hoarding Specialists of Kalamazoo   What is one important/interesting thing you learned from the classes?  “Hoarding is recognized by the ADAA as mental [...]