Center for Discovery - Granite Bay

"My daughter was in the granite bay location and her experience there wasn’t the best, so much so that I had to remove her from this place after the director was telling her if she ran away the cops and neighbors have guns an it wouldn’t be her problem anymore and that was the director! I don’t let me get into details of the facility itself, not having heating inside wasn’t a concern staff member were as far as Ik very good staff but the therapist and the director were very questionable in my opinion . I would not recommend this specific location! 12/23--01/24"

"They make you eat a lot and get little to no exercise. Every moment of every day you’re sitting in a poorly lit group room for hours on end. You can’t walk around freely. There was a cook named Madeline or something like that and she was easier to accidentally trigger than the other patients. Courtney has a superiority complex, but not as insufferable as Braden’s god complex. Meanwhile I think his name was Austin, reminded me of the skater preacher from one episode of King of The Hill. Also he gets upset at you for cussing. I was there in like 2019?"

"The therapists and dieticians provide tangible skills for clients and family members to overcome the harms of eating disorders. Once you trust the treatment team, anything is possible. If the client wants to leave initially, that's normal: recovery takes trust and time. Trust that the treatment team can help the client more than the eating disorder. Lean into the groups, validate the pain and celebrate the progress. They will work with you to find a step-down program to empower you to maintain recovery in lower levels of care. The individualized care at Center for Discovery is unbelievable (and generally hard to find in residential settings). They work to meet clients' diverse needs (ie discussing food and body image as it relates to diverse cultures, people of color, queer and trans people, etc). If there's something that would help a client that isn't in "the books", the team is flexible and open and responsive to feedback. Strongly recommend."

"This is a terrible place for treatment in almost every way, though maybe by some miracle, it had genuinely helped a couple of kids. Despite this, for the love of your child, do not send them here. Please."