Founder Cory Chalmers Returns as a Featured Expert on A&E's 'Hoarders'

Our founder, Cory Chalmers, continues his long-running work as a featured hoarding-disorder expert on A&E’s “Hoarders.” For families in Greater Cincinnati, that national work is not a marketing footnote. It is the source of the method behind our hoarding cleanup in Cincinnati and the training every Ohio crew receives before a single job.

Why a Television Show Matters to a Local Cleanup Company

“Hoarders” changed public understanding of this condition more than any clinical paper did. Before it aired, most people thought hoarding was laziness. After, a lot more people understood it as a recognized mental health disorder with real treatment pathways.

That shift matters to us practically. Families who understand hoarding as a disorder call earlier, approach their loved one differently, and are far more open to a collaborative cleanout instead of a forced one. Those projects succeed at a much higher rate.

Cory has been on these interventions for three decades, working alongside therapists and organizers on some of the most severe cases in the country. Everything our Ohio technicians are trained to do, working at the client’s pace, keeping the homeowner in control of sorting decisions, never forcing an outcome, comes directly out of that experience.

The through line

The person comes first, the property second. Get that order wrong and the house refills within a year. Get it right and the result holds.

What This Means for Ohio Families

The corporate brand behind Cincinnati Hoarding Pros has operated since 1995 and now runs more than 40 franchises nationwide, adding over 25 in a recent one-year span. Across all of them, more than 10,000 people have been helped.

Our Ohio branch, run by Heidi and Bob for over 24 years, has restored more than 500 hoards in this region alone. The national training standard and the local crew are the same organization, which is not true of most companies that advertise this service.

Practically, that means a family in West Chester or Covington gets crews trained to a national standard on the psychology side and biohazard response trained, OSHA compliant, and certified in hazardous materials handling on the technical side. Those two skill sets rarely live in the same company.

Speaking and Education Work Continues

Alongside the show, Cory speaks internationally on hoarding disorder to clinicians, first responders, code enforcement officers, and family groups. Much of that work is about the same message: the intervention that looks fastest on paper, showing up with a dumpster and clearing the house, is usually the one that fails.

If your organization works with people affected by hoarding in the Greater Cincinnati area, from social services to property management to emergency response, we are glad to talk about education sessions.

If You Are a Family Reading This

You do not need a television crew and you do not need to be at crisis point to call. Most of the work we do never appears anywhere, which is exactly how our clients want it. We arrive in unmarked vehicles, the conversation stays confidential, and the estimate is free.

The helpline is answered 24 hours a day, every day of the year. There is no charge to describe your situation and ask what it would take to fix.

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