OCD Care in Florence, SC
Careful evaluation and medication management for obsessive-compulsive disorder, with exposure-based therapy or a referral to an ERP specialist, for adults in Florence and nearby Hartsville and Lake City by secure video.
OCD Care for Adults in Florence
Hope Behavioral Medicine provides OCD care for adults in Florence and across Florence County by secure video, with in-person visits at our West Ashley office in Charleston for anyone who prefers them; we accept Medicare, most major commercial plans, and all South Carolina Medicaid managed care plans except Select Health (First Choice).
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is not among the CDC PLACES measures, so these figures are the nearest measures: frequent mental distress, the share of adults with two weeks or more of poor mental health in a month, and the share ever told by a health professional that they have depression.
OCD Care: What the Local Figures Show in Florence
Compared with Florence County as a whole, Florence has higher estimates for short sleep, while frequent mental distress, depression, lack of social and emotional support, loneliness and fair or poor self-rated health are about even.
Against the median of the 34 South Carolina communities on this site, Florence sits above the middle on short sleep, lack of social and emotional support, loneliness and fair or poor self-rated health, while frequent mental distress and depression are close to the middle.
Florence has the eleventh-highest estimate for loneliness of the 34 communities on this site, and loneliness often travels with depression and anxiety.
For lack of social and emotional support, Florence ranks twelfth-highest among them.
Its estimate for short sleep is the thirteenth-highest of the group.
Among nearby communities on this site, the frequent mental distress estimate for Florence sits below Hartsville and Lake City.
An estimated 24 percent of households in Florence have no broadband subscription, the sixth-highest share of the 34 communities on this site, and a video visit needs a steady connection on a phone, tablet or computer.
| Measure | Florence | Florence County |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with 14 or more days of poor mental health in the past month | 17.3 percent | 17.6 percent |
| Adults ever told by a health professional they have depression | 22.3 percent | 22.7 percent |
| Adults who usually sleep less than seven hours a night | 37.9 percent | 37.4 percent |
| Adults who lack social and emotional support | 26 percent | 26.2 percent |
| Adults who report feeling lonely | 34.9 percent | 35.3 percent |
| Adults who rate their own health as fair or poor | 23.5 percent | 23.1 percent |
Figures in this section come from CDC PLACES, 2025 release (model-based estimates from 2022 and 2023 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data), with the American Community Survey, 2017 to 2021, via CDC for households without broadband; ranks compare the 34 South Carolina communities on this site.
Florence County Figures From County Health Rankings
In Florence County, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, 2025, counts 18 percent of adults with frequent mental distress, above the statewide 16.7 percent, the ninth-highest frequent mental distress figure among the South Carolina counties in this data, while CDC PLACES gives Florence the fifteenth-lowest frequent mental distress estimate of the 34 communities on this site.
| Measure | Florence County | South Carolina |
|---|---|---|
| Average poor mental health days adults reported in the past month | 5.6 days | 5.2 days |
| Adults with two weeks or more of poor mental health in the past month | 18 percent | 16.7 percent |
| Adults who usually sleep less than seven hours a night | 38.2 percent | 36.6 percent |
| Mental health providers, counted against residents | one for every 332 residents | one for every 437 residents |
| Working-age adults with no health insurance | 13 percent | 13.4 percent |
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps builds these county figures from the CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2022 for the survey measures, the CMS National Provider Identification file, 2024 for provider counts and the Small Area Health Insurance Estimates, 2022 for insurance; ranks compare the South Carolina counties in this data.
Living and Working in Florence
More than 13,500 people work in health care in Florence County, the medical hub of the Pee Dee; health care workers face high rates of burnout, and video visits can fit around demanding shifts.
Francis Marion University and Florence-Darlington Technical College both have their campuses in Florence; we see students 18 and older by secure video, around class schedules.
In 2026 SteelFab announced a $38.92 million Florence plant with 108 jobs making steel parts for U.S. naval defense.
Florence grew up around a railroad depot site bought in 1853 and takes its name from Florence Harllee, daughter of the railroad's president.
Florence National Cemetery dates to 1865 and lies about a quarter-mile from the site of a Civil War prison camp.
Campuses serving Florence include Francis Marion University and Florence-Darlington Technical College.
Florence's economy centers on health care and automotive and retail distribution.
Florence County is federally designated as a mental health professional shortage area, meaning there are too few mental health professionals for the people who live there; telehealth lets Florence residents see a provider without waiting for a local opening.
Sources for these local facts: fcedp.com,southcarolinapublicradio.org,governor.sc.gov,cityofflorencesc.gov,cem.va.gov.
OCD Care That Fits Around Shift Work
Checking rituals can eat into a shift and make it hard to finish on time, and visits can be scheduled around your work hours.
Your plan can include medication when indicated, decided jointly with the patient, and exposure-based therapy, with careful follow-up because OCD often needs a longer treatment trial.
OCD brings intrusive, unwanted thoughts and the rituals meant to quiet them, and people with it generally spend more than an hour a day on obsessions or compulsions.
Request an appointment for OCD care, call (843) 737-0312, or read about OCD care by telehealth across South Carolina and in person at our West Ashley office.
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OCD Care Nearby
Not in Florence?
Adults anywhere in South Carolina, including Hartsville and Lake City, can see us by secure video, or you can browse every South Carolina community we serve
OCD Care in Florence: Questions
Yes: adults in Florence and the rest of Florence County can see Hope Behavioral Medicine by secure video, with in-person visits at our West Ashley office in Charleston for anyone who prefers them, and a video visit needs no ride; for comparison, Florence has the fourteenth-highest estimate for transportation barriers of the 34 communities on this site.
In part: our nurse practitioners and therapists can bring exposure-based techniques into cognitive behavioral therapy by secure video, and when full exposure and response prevention fits better, we refer you to an ERP specialist and keep your plan connected.
CDC PLACES puts it at 22.3 percent of adults in Florence, the fifteenth-highest figure among the 34 South Carolina communities on this site, against 22.7 percent across Florence County.
In Florence County, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, 2025, counts one mental health provider for every 332 residents, more providers for its population than the statewide one for every 437 residents, the fifth-lowest residents per mental health provider figure among the South Carolina counties in this data, while CDC PLACES gives Florence the twelfth-highest lack of social and emotional support estimate of the 34 communities on this site.
Video visits run Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, and you can book one during a break or before or after work, with no drive.
Hope Behavioral Medicine is not an emergency service: call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, at any hour, and in an emergency call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.