Julie Church

Biographical Info Partial Hospitalization Program + Intensive Outpatient Program Opal: Food + Body Wisdom is a female owned, clinician led eating disorder treatment center in the heart of Seattle's University District. We provide Partial Hospitalization (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient (IOP) for people of all genders 18+ with eating disorders and disordered eating. Opal offers mental health counseling, nutrition counseling, family therapy and psychiatric services at all levels of care. Our treatment is grounded in Radically Open Dialectical Therapy, with unique programming for Exercise+Sport and an aim for clinic wide weight-inclusive practices. We are in-network with many major insurance companies. We also offer non-clinical lodging at a low fee for our PHP and IOP clients. Opal's approach to food+ body: Opal aims to offer non-diet and weight-inclusive treatment for eating disorder recovery. All staff, programs and attitudes align with this through and through. Our treatment approach challenges mainstream diet culture beliefs and offers groups and 1:1 sessions to deconstruct one's beliefs that may have contributed to the development and maintenance of one's eating disorders. Our nutrition team creates positive and therapeutic meal and snack experiences, which ultimately help clients find freedom from food and discover the eater they are naturally designed to be. Since our approach is individualized, we allow personalization of meal planning for all eating disorder diagnoses, while simultaneously re-teaching, and guiding the application of the basics of appetite regulation, metabolism, and general nutrition principles. Our goal for our clients is to have a practical, life-giving, trust based relationship with food and their bodies. What does treatment at Opal look like? A treatment day at Opal includes group therapy, individual sessions, group meals and snacks, movement sessions if desired, and time for rest and connect with fellow clients. Groups at Opal include: re-thinking exercise + sport process group, Radically Open DBT skills class, acceptance and commitment therapy group, life stories, art of non-productivity and pleasure, body wisdom, body wisdom skills class, movement group, RESTorative movement group, process group, self-inquiry group, expressive arts, deconstructing diet culture class, dinner meal outing, nutrition education, family programming, culinary group, grocery shopping outing, and facing fears.

Email Address [email protected]

Address 1100 NE 45th Street
Ste 600
SEATTLE, WA 98105
United States

Phone Number (206) 926-9087

Locations Seattle, Washington

Provider Specialization Other

Accepting New Patients? Yes

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Ages Served Adult

Communities BIPOC, Queer, TGNC, Cognitive Disabilities, Chronic Illness

Supported Communities BIPOC, Queer, TGNC, Cognitive Disabilities, Chronic Illness

Accepted Insurance BC/BS Regence, Cigna, FirstChoice, HMA, Kaiser, Out of network, Private Pay

Modalities Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-focused, Radically Open DBT, Internal Family Systems, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Emotion-focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Neurofeedback, somatic_experiencing

Location Accessibility ADA Accessible, Gender-neutral Bathrooms

Service Accessibility In Person