Center for Discovery Granite Bay

i was here for 6 weeks and every day i begged my family to pick me up. The structure of the day is not at all accurate, we had to constantly ask for groups and activities we were told would happen daily. The staff do not communicate with one another making it so frustrating for us as the patients, one staff will tell us one thing and another something completely different. As a minor the staff treated me different to the point i was friends with the miliue bc they felt bad for me( not all staff was like this for example atoosa, bella, alliyah, julie, reba we’re amazing staff they treated us like people and had conversations w us had groups with us and took us on walks/ drives. as for the other staff they made everything seem like a chore they would lock the bathrooms so we had to ask to go to the bathroom and staff would tell us they were busy/ habe us wait or make us ask someone else. both the therapist were invalidating, i thought i was the only one that thought that but then another patient came to me crying after a session saying what she was telling her and she was frustrated as was everyone else we talked about it in the miliues debrief while shift change we would al sit with eachother and talk about the day and what we needed to talk/ get off out chests. my mental health and not only mine got soso bad being there the staff would also purposely do things like hang up our calls make us sit in other rooms take away our phone time, change our food requirements to make us eat more/ change our chosen meal’s without telling us the diet tech haley was not consistent on portioning and had many many talks and confrontations with and still no change also triggering things being said/ immature jokes to patients and blaiten favoritism. not to mention the staff/ admin taylor, cristina, haley, making comments about appearences/ comparison to others and not redirecting comments when told something about it no accountability for them what so ever i was told multiple times im “being to sensitive” i dont wish anyone to ever go through this during my stay 4 people went AMA fue to how they treated us and 1 got kicked out after asking staff to story they way they were behaving i habe so much more to say like how we didn’t have washer/ dryer for 3 weeks and we washed our clothes in the sink and begged for laundry outings which did not happen and taylor even called our parents and told them we had a new wash and dryer installed which was a lie and when i confusingly asked the other patients they said there parents were told the same thing i am so sorry but i dont habe more room. please do ur research and find a place who treats u with respect pleasee do not go here

I was at CFD twice; first in 2019 and again in 2020 during Covid. Treatment isn’t fun. It’s hard. You’re forced to step outside of your comfort zone. My first time at cfd I didn’t want to be there at all (honestly was just there to get medically cleared so I could go back to school) but it took going back a year later and spending 7 weeks there for me to realize and appreciate how much I needed treatment at the time. I would just say to anyone planning on coming here: have an open mind. Every person stepping through the doors of residential is suffering. And I understand you if you’re afraid of letting go of your ED. It’s valid. It is scary. But it’s also incredibly fulfilling to be freed from disordered eating. It is a beautiful process: learning to love yourself. It’s not easy. There was a lot of tears. But you’re surrounded by peers who understand exactly what you’re going through and the group therapy sessions help a lot. If your family cares enough to support you in your recovery please show gratitude because not everyone has a family there to cheer them on or come visit them while they’re struggling. Cherish your loved ones and be grateful for life everyday. Food isn’t the enemy. Food nourishes the soul and body and you deserve to be happy! Also it’s nice to cheer each other on in treatment. I know EDs can be competitive and even if you don’t mean to you might subconsciously end up comparing yourself to the other patients (idk maybe not but I did) but realize that you are both there for the purpose of healing and recovering and comparing yourself to another sick individual isn’t getting anyone anywhere. Instead focus on yourself and tell ur peers ur proud of them if u notice they struggled but got through a meal. It’s important to be there for each other. I’m reallyyyyy shy but to this day I’m still in touch with some of the other girls I met at cfd. It’s great. Also.. JOURNAL! journal everything. Every emotion. Every outburst. It’s healing. If you’re spiritually inclined, right now is the perfect time to get close to your higher power. You won’t have your phone for the most part so reading the Bible, praying, etc…. Now is the time to do that haha god is great. Especially when you think no one else is there for you. Nobody forces religion or spirituality on you here it’s not like the 12 steps in AA/NA but I’m just saying getting closer to god is such a bonus and will aid you tremendously in your recovery process if you seek him out. Good luck to everyone in their recovery journey!! You got this! Can’t really speak for their current staff but I had great support from the therapists and nurses (especially) at the time when I was there. Hopefully it’s the same or better now!

Croutons aren’t a starch ☝️🤓 Tbh I hated this place with my whole soul when I came there. I’m a peaceful person and I was arguing with staff. But it changed my life. Like hallelujah god sent me there to have the best therapist who was so patient with my argumentative self. Literally if you actually learn and apply it to your life it changes everything. Like I used to dread every meal but now I can enjoy food again and it’s wonderful. (Eating isn’t the problem. It’s all ego. It’s how your brain survives in or after trauma) But omg was it the hardest therapy program in my whole life. 10/10 would do it again

lily was amazing and deserves a raise big enough to allow her to purchase her own private island to retire within the next 30 days. kaitlyn and abi were good cooks and interacted with us a lot so it was nice having someone else other than a therapist or counselor to talk to. reba was a great nurse to talk to aswell and most complaints about taylor are false, you barley see her anyways around the house but when i did she was fine and nice only complaint is the program itself. i came here with bulimia (against my will so my opinion may not be all that) but it felt like it catered towards anorexia more instead of a diverse set of eating disorders so being at the table from anywhere between 20-40 minuets a day six times a day surrounded by people who struggled with eating kinda sucked. oh also they would make random rules up and never really implement them and go back and forth on the rules it was super confusing. one of the new rules i hated is after going back from a pass, there had to be two people in the room as they strip search you which was really uncomfortable. esp since i was a minor. the groups were often dead silent so everyone was bored and phone time was such a small amount in the day that it sucked because of how isolating it felt. they used phone time as an incentive to eat but i think there are so many other ways to gain incentives because the phone is the only connection you had for friends and family but it was so limited. also the lack of things to do was hard, you couldn’t have any time alone in the bedroom, you had to stay upfront with almost nothing to do so most of the days blur together and nothing memorable really happens. another thing about the bedroom situation is that they would room minors and adults together, and i’m not talking about 17&18 but more of like lower end of the age range allowed and the upper end of the age range so it was kinda weird for me to see that. but yeah it was pretty okay. the people make or break the stay 🤷‍♀️

Taylor, the Granite Bay director, is so unnecessarily mean. I can name example after example of instances where she intentionally made decisions that directly conflicted with what was in the best interest of my care. Taylor's baseless and biased edicts would knock me off my feet— had me feeling like a "nothing." She applied rules unfairly, changed them on a whim which confused staff and patients, rewarded patients that she favored arbitrarily, and failed to recognize that eating disorder recovery oftentimes elicits uncharacteristic and obstreperous behavior in vulnerable patients because old habits die screaming. The way Taylor treated me made me feel like a toxic disease that needed to be controlled, corrected, and cast-out, but I'm damned if I do give a damn what people say and I'm still extremely appreciative of the treatment team that advocated so fiercely on my behalf. Kristy, Lily, and Reba are the greatest RD, Therapist, and RN of all time and Taylor truly didn't know how lucky she was when she had the 3 of them on her staff. While they sought to understand the source of my emotional dysregulation and support my needs, Taylor sought to punish me by making harmful decisions regarding my treatment. She failed to support the individualized needs of patients, and the constant threat of punishment, demotion, and discharge made it difficult to make progress on the internal work I was at Granite Bay to focus on. She felt that I was brash and boisterous— if standing on chairs, coping with stress by visiting the neighbor's horse, and developing a sense of mutual trust and respect with staff members is truly as catastrophic as she implies, then I have to say I had a marvelous time ruining everything. I won't be returning to a center where the director repeatedly beats me down. I like to explore and I like to be silly and I like to have fun— I'm going to play, play, play, play, play while haters like Taylor hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. I hope that some sort of karmic intervention persuades her to direct the program with more empathy, compassion, and understanding— me and karma vibe like that so I like to think that someday Taylor will be nicer.

I went here a couple of years ago. I was 15 turning 16 and I was struggling. After two weeks they told me I wasn’t fit for their program and sent me to the children’s depression & anxiety residential, which was a couple houses down. They basically told me that I wasn’t sick enough to be there, I cried and begged for them to keep me in the eating disorder res but they did not care at all. I knew I needed help with my eating disorder but apparently they thought they knew me better. A year or two passed and I tried going to an eating disorder PHP (which is a step down from residential) I ended up going for two weeks before they told me I was TOO SICK FOR THEM & proceeded to tell me I had to go back to residential (which I couldn’t afford anymore) this entire process could’ve been avoided if this place had just listened to me or at least considered my feelings. I am now 19 and my ED ended up becoming so bad I was severely underweight at one point. I struggle every day & I can’t afford this kind of treatment anymore. This place sucks and the children’s depression and anxiety residential sucks even more. Oh and one last thing, when they transferred me to the children’s depression & anxiety res they told me that I would still get help for my eating disorder. They told me they would visit to ensure I was still getting care for my anorexia. They lied. They didn’t visit a single time & I received no help. This place made me feel like I wasn’t sick enough, which worsened my ED because my mind thought “I should restrict even more so I could prove im sick enough”. Don’t go here.

I can not thank Center for discovery enough!! It was tough for my 18yr old daughter especially at first, but it was successful ! The staff has communicated with me through the whole process. They have helped my daughter immensely. She has an excellent therapist who she really connected with. He doctor and psychiatrist both listened and adjusted medications to her needs. Her stay there was life changing and we are both finally filled with hope. Thank you to everyone . You all make a difference ❤️

horrible, the lady who runs it (Taylor) threatened to call cps on my mom for trying to pull me out, wouldn’t give a reason why. the therapist there sucks, his name is Thomas and you can’t get him switched to their other therapist, also no reasoning for that. you’re stuck in a day room all day, can barley go outside. it’s basically a prison, the only think i liked about this place was the beds, more comfortable than the beds in the er. Taylor doesn’t give any information to your parents or you, the groups suck and don’t teach you anything, especially if you are already used to talking about coping skills and DBT. DONT SEND YOUR CHILD HERE, The staff are very irritating and like to start drama with the kids, they treat us alike lesser individuals just because of our disorder and age, and they try to enforce strict rules that were never actually rules that applied to the program.