As a trellis does with plants, our hope at Trellis Recovery Centers is to provide gentle, foundational, support that allows our clients to grow in their own way. Just as no two plants would grow on a trellis the same way, no two individuals will experience their eating disorder and treatment in the same way. Our team utilizes cognitive exploration, emotional processing, development of skills, movement and art therapies, community outings, group activities, clinical exposures, kitchen experience, and medical and nutritional education to support clients in their well-rounded journey toward eating disorder recovery.
We believe in going beneath the surface of the eating disorder.
Our philosophy is based in the understanding that demonizing eating disorder beliefs and behaviors does not support long-term recovery. Individuals struggling with eating disorders engage in their behaviors for many reasons. The eating disorder has served a purpose for them that contributes to their attachment to the disorder and the difficulty in letting it go. Considering this, our treatment focuses not on solely reducing presenting eating disorder behaviors but, instead, on exploring the deeper mediating factors beneath the eating disorder.
We work to move beyond the acute crisis stage of treatment with the aim to access and address the deeper struggles our clients face and which underlie their eating disorder and mental health challenges. Our treatment focuses on acknowledging the function the eating disorder once had as well as creating space for our clients to learn other ways of achieving these functions without the eating disorder.
We see beyond the eating disorder to the human in front of us.
At Trellis, it is a foundational part of our treatment that we never lose sight of the human we are treating. To this end, we are committed to giving each person individualized care that is tailored to their unique personality and experiences. We want to know our clients for who they are and what they stand for, not only for their eating disorder. We want our clients to feel that they are seen and heard by their treatment providers.
Further, we know that our clients are not defined by their illnesses and we believe in their innate power to heal themselves. Our mission is to support each individual in our care as they discover this innate power and utilize it to create a reality wherein they no longer feel they need eating disorder behaviors in order to cope, feel empowered, and live fulfilling lives.
We are committed to client advocacy.
At Trellis Recovery Centers, our goal is to be our client’s fiercest advocates. We provide case management and insurance support services that allow our team to directly advocate for the needs of each client.
We place emphasis on setting clients up for success.
Individuals that receive care at Trellis Recovery Centers may not be with us for the other levels-of-care needed, however, this does not mean we don’t support in planning for these transitions.
Every aspect of the Trellis program is focused on strengthening each individual’s plan and skills for transition out of residential care. We do this through meal exposures, teaching kitchen skills, providing support groups for both client and support system, community outings and activities, education coordination, and alumni groups.
We recognize that the goal is to plant seeds for sustained recovery, not solely recovery in residential treatment.
We believe that full eating disorder recovery is possible.
Even under the most difficult circumstances, there is always hope for eating disorder recovery. At Trellis, we hold this hope for every individual in our care as they work to find this hope for themselves. While we acknowledge that social pressures and eating disorder thoughts might arise again in one’s lifetime, we believe in the power of the individual to experience these and make recovery-focused choices. We believe that recovery from eating disorders is absolutely possible and achievable for everyone.
Balance, flexibility, and resilience are key components of mental health, and are central themes in treatment at Trellis Recovery Centers.