Center for Discovery - Beverly Hills - Beverly Hills, California

Yaniii

The Beverly Hills location is quite amazing. The staff are so kind, very welcoming, very understanding, super accommodating, and they incorporate a level of flexibility to help patients feel more comfortable. They are very proactive about new food items to provide for the patients. They have very great one on one conversations with each patient and they truly do their best at helping us through recovery, while also allowing us to go at a comfortable pace.

Benny M.

Brooke is so funny and amazing, and it makes the meals great, I don’t have an eating disorder but I came to see what the hype was about, you get free meals and snacks with your insurance if you say that have an eating disorder which I had never heard of before. They even let you cook with George. Brooke is the one with heterochromia and blue eyes. One thing if you come here, stay away from Tremontana go to the coffee shop across Wilshire. They don’t stalk you there.

Monse R.

Truly from the bottom of my heart, CFD Beverly Hills has begun to transform my life. Prior to starting my PHP treatment here, I was struggling in various aspects of my life such as school, work, and personal relationships. CFD BH continuously welcomes me with open arms everyday, ready to challenge my thoughts and maladaptive coping mechanisms. We have various group classes/conversations about topics such as DBT, living in your body, recovery life skills, menu planning, kitchen skills, and so much more. We also have about three one on one sessions per week with a clinician. I am beyond grateful for the staff, clinicians, dietitians, and everyone who helps me everyday here. I love this place so much I can’t express it in words. Thank you CFD Beverly Hills for beginning to transform my life, I look forward to continuing my treatment here and stepping down levels. I highly recommend this place to anyone who is ready to challenge their ED and maladaptive coping mechanisms. Strength and power to everyone reading this!

Nakailah H.

Coming from a patients perspective, it’s a really great PHP to go to for ED treatment, especially compared to other’s. The staff are really easy to work with and super nice. They’re very good at giving everyone 1 on 1 attention and they help meet everyone’s different needs.

Vanessa-Rose J.

All of their staff are trainees - it’s like a training ground rather than a real medical facility. Instead of teaching us how to have a relationship with food in a way that’s conducive to our goals of recovery, they teach their patients that being healthy is bad and the consequence of this is that anyone who expresses a desire to recover from their disorder by eating meals with nutrition is discouraged. They shouldn’t be teaaching us being healthy and eating nutrients is bad, they should be re educating us as to what that means for us on an individual basis.

Further to that, my therapist had so many mental health isssues of her own, it was concerning. Instead of leading process groups, she’d join in on them.

They don’t know the first thing about nutrition and actively discourage their patients from learning about nutrition.

Carlos M.

If I could rate it any lower I would. They made me sign a non-disclosure agreement which means there would have been ramifications if I criticized their program while attending it. I am speaking for the Lakewood, Los Alamitos, and Beverly Hills location. The Beverly Hills location was slightly more organized and strict then the rest, I'll give them that. However, the pervasive ideology did not really help me at all. The therapists were even slightly threatening at times. My family did not have the financial resources to help me, so we went to DCFS for aid. The social worker from DCFS was the main threatening force and the therapists just played along with it. They attempted to squeeze as much money out of DCFS as possible by extending my stays in residential and PHP. I told them what they were doing would not be fruitful. Holding someone there with the looming threat of being separated from their family due to Anorexia is pitiful as a motivating force. I am glad I signed myself out of there upon turning 18. I am in a much better place now doing this on my own. It's been difficult, but I wouldn't have it any other way. The groups are boring, useless, and overly abundant, especially in the residential setting (i.e. Lakewood). As for the Los Alamitos location, I wasn't able to request a transfer to the Beverly Hills location during my time because my twin brother was going to be transferred there. That would have saved us hundreds in Uber fares! My Mom used up our savings to transport me to this excuse for a PHP facility. Sure, some of the people are nice, but their groups are ineffective, pre-planned, dare I say, "cookie-cutter" activities with very little substance. Now, on to the Lakewood location. The staff was really kind, but they blatantly try to deceive you. I can only speak for myself, but when I asked them why they were giving me Ensures, there reasoning was to get my heart-rate beyond 50 bpm when I am sleeping. Now, prior to my arrival there I was engaging in physical activity and trying to eat well; however, when coupled with my family's genetic trend of low heart-rates and low blood pressure, it would be logical to assume that I would have a low heart-rate. When I asked how exactly feeding me nutritionally devoid, pharmaceutical supplements (that's really what the company Abbot deals with, they are a "medical" center (they don't refer to themselves as such though) after all) would help me, they told me I would gain weight, that the extra calories would only help my heart. I guess the doctor forgot her basic Thermodynamics because she was plainly wrong. They made me gain an exorbitant amount of weight. I left there at around 115 lbs (I am only around 5'4). I had always been extremely thin and underweight, even prior to the development of this illness, and I felt extremely uncomfortable in that weight. It seemed they only got me there as a contingency because they feared I would lose it upon release. Maybe they did it because of a warped perception of how males should weigh, I don''t know. NOW I WILL ADDRESS SOMETHING OF EXTREME CONCERN, the medications. The psychiatrist's answer to everything is to increase the dose. Why provide anorexics with medication designed for schizophrenics? Why give them medication with extreme side effects, such as an increase risk for strokes, cancer, etc.? As for there reasoning, it had to do with Serotonin Reuptake this and that and "it will help with rumination and your thoughts", which they don't seem to comprehend completely either. Bottom line, the only program that I would recommend is not this "franchise". I cannot specify which location is actually beneficial and utilizes techniques that are peer-reviewed (unlike this company using their own research), but I hope you find it because I ruined my chances in the place that I am referring to (NOT CFD) due to not complying. Overall, I can't tell you to stay away. Who knows, it might work for you, if you or your kid can tolerate being a room with other kids with similar or the same condition ("wow what a great idea, huh?").

Samback U.

Do not go here. Staff is rude and terrifying. Very deceitful. Very disorganized. They plainly seem to be harmful.

Amy H.

The staff could not be kinder and more accommodating. They saved my life!