This review is intended for a parent looking at this place as an option to assist your child in Disordered Eating Treatment. RUN!!! DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILD HERE! This place is not the place, unfortunately, WA state does not have quality resources for your child with ED. I recommend looking at the Varitas Collaborative (any location) or Eating Recovery IN DENVER (NOT the local Bellevue location).
Center For Discovery has a very high turnover rate of its employees, so much so that their website is rarely up to date. This is a red flag. In order to find out who may be at the facility at the same time as your child, the best but not complete resource will be a LinkedIn search! When searching employees of CFD you will notice a pattern of them hiring brand new graduates of therapy to be a lead therapist. In my personal experience, we were assigned a therapist as her very first clients and it did not go well. ED is a very complex mental health diagnosis and a fresh-eyed 20-year-old does not have the needed experience to treat such a complex case. On top of that, there was no supervision of this fresh therapist until I requested it, and then it was only for show. I later found out that despite asking for my child to have a different therapist and CFD said they would... that they only provided the more experienced therapist to do the family sessions while telling me my child was seeing them as well, I did not find out until months later that my child still saw the unqualified new therapist that I had requested NOT to be over their care. We are still undoing the damage this young therapist caused.
Additionally, once my child was admitted to CFD Edmunds it became very apparent I had made a mistake. In the chaotic world of finding an open bed and not wanting to go out of state right off the bat, I took the open bed at Edmunds, thinking if the warnings I had received were accurate that I could simply transfer to another facility. CFD Edmunds did everything they could to block a transfer from happening, they lied and denied sending records to the other facilities I wanted to transfer to. They did not have my child's heath as a primary concern, just their own pride and financial pockets.
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