OCD Care in Walterboro, SC
Careful evaluation and medication management for obsessive-compulsive disorder, with exposure-based therapy or a referral to an ERP specialist, for adults in Walterboro and nearby Beaufort, Bluffton and Hilton Head Island by secure video.
OCD Care for Adults in Walterboro
Hope Behavioral Medicine provides OCD care for adults in Walterboro and across Colleton 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 Walterboro
Compared with Colleton County as a whole, Walterboro has higher estimates for short sleep, lack of social and emotional support, loneliness and fair or poor self-rated health and lower estimates for depression, while frequent mental distress is about even.
Against the median of the 34 South Carolina communities on this site, Walterboro 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.
Walterboro has the fourth-highest estimate for fair or poor self-rated health of the 34 communities on this site, and physical and mental health usually move together.
For lack of social and emotional support, Walterboro ranks eighth-highest among them.
Its estimate for short sleep is the tenth-highest of the group.
Among nearby communities on this site, the frequent mental distress estimate for Walterboro sits above Beaufort, Bluffton and Hilton Head Island.
An estimated 17.1 percent of households in Walterboro have no broadband subscription, the sixteenth-highest share of the 34 communities on this site, and a video visit needs a steady connection on a phone, tablet or computer.
| Measure | Walterboro | Colleton County |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with 14 or more days of poor mental health in the past month | 17.8 percent | 17.8 percent |
| Adults ever told by a health professional they have depression | 21.9 percent | 22.6 percent |
| Adults who usually sleep less than seven hours a night | 38.7 percent | 38.1 percent |
| Adults who lack social and emotional support | 27.4 percent | 26.4 percent |
| Adults who report feeling lonely | 33.9 percent | 32.9 percent |
| Adults who rate their own health as fair or poor | 27 percent | 25.9 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.
Colleton County Figures From County Health Rankings
In Colleton County, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, 2025, counts 19.7 percent of adults with frequent mental distress, above the statewide 16.7 percent, the second-highest frequent mental distress figure among the South Carolina counties in this data, while CDC PLACES gives Walterboro the twelfth-highest frequent mental distress estimate of the 34 communities on this site.
| Measure | Colleton County | South Carolina |
|---|---|---|
| Average poor mental health days adults reported in the past month | 6 days | 5.2 days |
| Adults with two weeks or more of poor mental health in the past month | 19.7 percent | 16.7 percent |
| Adults who usually sleep less than seven hours a night | 39.4 percent | 36.6 percent |
| Mental health providers, counted against residents | one for every 659 residents | one for every 437 residents |
| Working-age adults with no health insurance | 16.7 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 Walterboro
Walterboro became the Colleton County seat in 1817 and was incorporated in 1826; starting over in a new place often means rebuilding friendships and routines from scratch.
Charleston is 48 miles east of Walterboro; telehealth brings care to you, without the long drive.
More than 500 Tuskegee Airmen trained at Walterboro Army Airfield during World War II.
Boat builders, a shelf-stable food and beverage plant and other manufacturers are among Walterboro's employers.
The city calls the Walterboro Wildlife Sanctuary, more than 800 acres of creeks and hardwood flats, the largest city park in the state.
Campuses serving Walterboro include USC Salkehatchie and Technical College of the Lowcountry (Colleton campus).
Walterboro's economy centers on boat and food manufacturing and education.
Sources for these local facts: postandcourier.com,governor.sc.gov,walterborosc.org.
OCD Care for Busy, Growing Communities
Demanding jobs and a busy household can hide how much time rituals take until they start costing hours each day.
Treatment can include medication when indicated, decided jointly with the patient, exposure-based therapy or both, with follow-up visits by video.
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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Adults anywhere in South Carolina, including Beaufort, Bluffton and Hilton Head Island, can see us by secure video, or you can browse every South Carolina community we serve
OCD Care in Walterboro: Questions
Yes: adults in Walterboro and the rest of Colleton 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, Walterboro has the eleventh-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 21.9 percent of adults in Walterboro, the fifteenth-lowest figure among the 34 South Carolina communities on this site, against 22.6 percent across Colleton County.
In Colleton County, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, 2025, counts one mental health provider for every 659 residents, fewer providers for its population than the statewide one for every 437 residents, the seventh-highest residents per mental health provider figure among the South Carolina counties in this data, while CDC PLACES gives Walterboro the eighth-highest lack of social and emotional support estimate of the 34 communities on this site.
The plans we accept are Medicare, most major commercial plans, and all South Carolina Medicaid managed care plans except Select Health (First Choice), and our front desk checks your coverage before your first visit.
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.