Omg this place is absolutely incredible! Although they dont cater exactly to my issues they actually have a whole team that comes in on Mondays just to refer people to the professionals they need. In one day they will have done what my dcs caseworker wasnt able to do in 3 WEEKS. Thanks to everyone who cares and are so SO friendly and comforting on the phone!

As an outpatient eating disorders treatment provider, my clients have had wonderful experiences at Selah. As scary and difficult as it is to make the decision to admit to a higher level of care for ED treatment, I have had nothing but good experiences with Selah House. My clients really seem to love the plate method that they use at meals vs the exchanges that so many treatment centers use, in addition to the warm environment.

Our daughter Carolyn was admitted to Selah House In November of 2019 and discharged in January 2020. Making the decision to admit her after outpatient efforts failed was one of the most difficult decisions I have ever had to make as a parent. From the admissions process to discharge, the staff here was excellent, caring, attentive, and led Carolyn through some dark times. Equine Therapy is something we continue to this day as it spoke so deeply to Carolyn While in SH and she really connected with the staff as well as the horses. It is a beautiful sight when you see people who have answered the Lords call into their profession--it is obvious that the staff cared about seeing the girls succeed. We recently celebrated Carolyns one year after discharge day--she is living a full life and is continuing to march to recovery. I know we never would have been able to turn this around without her time at SH, as hard and heart wrenching as it was to leave her there. She stays in touch with her Selah sisters and draws strength from continuing their journeys to complete healing. Our family owes a great debt of gratitude to all of the Selah staff from admin to Nurses to counselors to equine specialists for helping our beloved daughter break these chains and be set free. She was a gift at birth and it was a gift to get her back from the cliff through the guidance of SH. May God continue to bless your efforts with those in your care. ---Kelly Young

Can you do less than one star? Send your kid here only if you want then to get worse. i cannot put into words how awful this place was to me and the patients there with me. the pictures they put out on the internet are terribly misleading. the staff was completely unqualified and uncharismatic for so many reasons. i would cry every couple hours and was barley attended to by not only the college students a monitoring us, but even the supposed therapist supposed to be looking after my mental wellbeing. my treatment her was a complete joke and disrespects the families that put their trust into selah house. I would never in a million years recommend this place to any i care even the slightest bit about. they cannot handle things themself but do not do anything about it whatsoever. i would see people having panic attacks and getting worse and the staff would literally sit and stare and discuss the patients behind their backs and mock the treatment philosophy. punishment was frequently given to us for no reason. we would be punished for referring to a current event. i was never forced to eat anything for weeks and would slide by starving myslef. i was never required to engage in treatment from sessions to eating. the facility also failed to clean itself and felt like a dump. it smelled and was a utter mess. proper hygiene was not addressed. overall this was a disgrace to those who legitimately want to get better and families who care for their children. it sickened me when i would see a new patient pull up with their parents because they had no clue what they were about to put their child through. the christian outlook was never influenced or taken seriously. we did nothing even revolving around spirituality. i did everything bible related myself and with people who happened to feel the same. glorified babysitting. never give this place your children, money, or trust. you will regret it.

I hope Google reads this edit before they remove it, again: Unlike “Renfrew” or “Montecatini” Selah House company gives each of their clinics a different name. So they’re difficult to link. Selah is owned by Odyssey Behavioral, the same company who runs The Toledo Center for Eating Disorders, where I stayed April-July 2019. They also own Magnolia Creek & Shoreline. Because my hospitalization was so traumatic & such a waste of my limited resources, but more because they failed to respond or offer any recompense to what they called my “concerns,” I’ve been following this company & have a developed a passion for better ED treatment. When you read the reviews for their clinics on Google, the first that will pop up are from fellow clinicians which I can’t help but assume are completely solicited. So for the sake of truth & to defend against censorship I am trying to spread the word about this company.Odyssey altered the previous clinics owners reviews to make you dig to discover that theyre for a completely different company, but if you do your digging (I did) & subtract them, Google’s star-based rating for Toledo Center, since Odyssey took them over, is only 2.3: TWO POINT THREE. (Odyssey: the same company who runs Selah.) I spent 3 mos. at TCED during the actual transition & witnessed, first-hand, how much they value $ over & above patients’ health. They overworked the staff, have a ridiculous staff turnover rate, low employee ratings/satisfaction on Indeed, low staff/pt ratios, admitted sicker pts than they could care for, not enough individual therapy, not enough therapy groups run by therapists, no aftercare or OP (b/c that doesnt make them enough $$) & I could go on. See my own Google review for them.The company who owns Selah is owned by Nautic, an investment firm, which exists solely to make money, & like many other firms bought up mental health clinics after the parity bill passed & opened the opportunity for them to earn a killing off vulnerable sick people & their insurance. There was a great article about this in the NYTimes called “Centers to Treat Eating Disorders Are Growing, and Raising Concerns.” And please, as they say on Google, don’t tell me to “contact *** ***, our CEO” about my concerns, because he and the exec director not only ignored my emails, they blocked my emails, then, blocked me on their FB page. Now, they not only erased MY bad review on their FB page, they removed the entire review section, so they erased everyone else’s bad reviews, too. That’s why I’m posting this on the company’s other ED clinic’s pages and websites, to fight censorship, and get the truth out, to protect the vulnerable mentally ill who deserve respect and dignity. If Odyssey is willing to repay every cent of money they made off of me and every patient I was admitted with in the summer of 2019, (not just from us but from our insurance companies) I MIGHT be willing to edit these reviews

As an eating disorder therapist, I have had a wonderful experience working with Selah House. The quality of care they provide is excellent. 10/10 would recommend to a friend or family member!

My sister was placed here in this care and she was out in a week. The staff was unqualified, she felt unsafe and uneasy the entire time, she felt as if there were was some spiritual warfare happening there and that there were evil spirits which she felt, she also had strange and odd nightmares that kept reoccurring which is also of sign of spiritual warfare (maybe change the name to Satans Spawns House?). Big yikes. she also stated that people who needed more mental health care were not separated from those whose mental health issues was not as severe and sometimes those people got out of hand and acted out towards the other patients in violent ways. she also stated that they were fed horribly and that she felt extremely trapped due to the doors constantly locking behind her everywhere she went. Including that, she felt put-off by her therapist there and was uneasy enough to the point where she did not want to be in the same room as her alone. she will be leaving a review of her own to share her awful experience of this place. hopefully she wont be needing additional therapy solely due to her experience here. To those reading this (if they dont take this down for exposing them), please do not take my words and think just another bad google review, all places have these types of reviews , Im not kidding. RUN FROM THIS PLACE. If you want your family member to actually have healing and comfort, this is not the place. RUN.

Thankful...so thankful for this place! It saved my life!!!! Not just my team but every other therapist, dietician, nurse, e.t.c. Made me feel welcome, validated, and at home! And OMG the RC staff is awesome! They make sure we are okay at all times and really just make it a fun environment! I felt a sense of peace ever since I walked in there. It was hard to go there, as the eating disorder voice was so loud and a prior experience at a residential place was terrible, but I’m so happy I went. Selah forever has a big place in my heart. I would reccomend to anyone.I read all the bad reviews on here before I went and was terrified, but I didn’t experience anything like the poor reviews say! This place is so special.

Hi I’m past client pastie .I have to say that selah truly impacted me .I remember being scared of life and then I met therapist Megan Bose who really helped me to see my worth .Shout our Todd groups and to nurse NANCEY and ✨Dr.Scales✨

I am discharging from here tomorrow. Believe me when I say I did not want to come here. I resisted treatment tooth and nail and lied my a** off during my assessment to try and stop myself from going.Once I was here, I had a really rough couple of weeks, which is to be expected. I left my meds at home so I struggled with paranoia for the first weeks. Additionally, I have trauma from hospitals so the medical aspect of things spiked my anxiety. This staff worked with me every step of the way, and were as kind to me as they could possibly be. When I expressed that I was uncomfortable undressing for a scar check due to my history as a survivor, the nurse admitting me agreed to let me tell her where my scars were, and to refer to that if they had to do scar checks in the future. This courtesy and empathy was extended to me any time I had to undress, including for ekgs and vitals, with nurses allowing me to remain as covered as possible at all times.Two months later, I am so, so grateful I chose to come here. I was honest with my team from the beginning that I did not want to recover and still wanted to lose weight and they worked with me at my own pace until I was ready to commit to recovery. Additionally, my team helped me move out of a toxic environment and ensured I wouldnt be going back to the same toxic home that encouraged my eating disorder.Finally, Im very thankful I chose to come here because of the impact equine therapy had on me. I love animals but before now I had minimal experiences with horses. Marcy, who does equine with patients, helped me get to know the horses and showed me how to listen to them. It was during an equine session that I first realized my capability to overcome my eating disorder. The ability to work with animals in a setting that doesnt feel so much like the hospitals that traumatized me has been instrumental in my healing.And, in response to reviews saying patients with high BMI s are turned away: my BMI classifies me as overweight and I have never once had my disorder question by a staff member at Selah (or a patient for that matter). In fact, my team validated my disorder every time I questioned or dismissed it. These people understand that EDs can affect anyone of any shape or size.

Please read this before you send your daughter to Selah!(continued)The staff was unhelpful, annoyed, and uneducated. They constantly complained about the pay, the clients, and how much they hated working there. I heard one staff member say, “this job is the reason I’m an alcoholic”. My therapist was very rarely available to talk to me, and my entire team seemed too busy to bother to meet with me. When I expressed that the program was not a good fit for me and that I was just getting worse the longer I stayed there, they disregarded my concerns and didn’t even listen. They came into each session with an agenda and didn’t care what I thought. The therapy I received felt more like manipulation than counseling. None of the groups were helpful - I vividly remember us watching Mulan, taking personality tests, playing bingo, and doing random art activities that only vaguely related to our eating disorders. There were no staff-led discussions about recovery or how to get better from this awful disease. I learned a lot at Selah, DESPITE the program itself.Selah is marketed as a Christian program. It definitely is not one. Spirituality was mentioned only a few times, the Chaplin was always cursing up a storm, and although we prayed before meals, that was the only time God was ever mentioned. I have nothing against secular treatment but it seemed misleading that it was so clearly named a “Christ-centered” center, when Christ wasn’t mentioned once in my stay.Being at Selah was a nightmare. I was having hourly panic attacks and I wrote letters to my friends, saying goodbye because I genuinely thought I was going to die there. I’ve never had psychosis or gone insane before, but I did not think I was going to survive. Looking back, I sounded totally insane, I’m just grateful my parents listened to me (they were scared for me, they’d never seen me like this before) and pulled me out.Selah should be a last resort, not the first choice it deceptively markets itself to be.

Please look into other facilities if you are in need of eating disorder treatment. One of my old friends interviewed for a job here to be a staff. She got it but she turned it down because she found another opportunity. The issue is they hired her when she believed anorexia and bulimia were the only eating disorders, you had to be underweight to have an eating disorder, those with anorexia don’t eat at all, it’s all for attention and much more stereotypical beliefs. Now think about her being a staff in a treatment center that specializes in eating disorders. For Selah House to offer a job to her when she has no idea on eating disorders can cause so much damage to clients. How many staff are currently working there who have no proper education on eating disorders?

AVOID. Employees improperly trained. Extremely poorly managed. No regard for HIPAA rules and laws. Put their employees and patients at risk of illness and injury. Odessy is the company that bought Selah house a few years back and they are an absolute garbage group.

I would absolutely recommend Selah! Although at first I was not very open with my team, they made me feel so loved and cared for from the start! I found love, hope, and compassion for myself. As well as them teaching me to give myself grace. I couldn’t have done it without the wonderful staff there. Some of the best humans I’ve ever encountered.

The nutrition at Selah was not good. The kitchen regularly ran out of fresh fruit, barely fed us vegetables, and sometimes food on our menu would not show up at meals. Most of the girls there were there FOR weight restoration; instead, clients at Selah were either losing weight, maintaining their dangerously low weights, or very very slowly gaining weight. We were fed tiny portions at meals, and large snacks - shakes made from ice cream, candy, and sometimes boost or ensure (high-calorie supplements for weight gain). The reason hospitals tube feed patients with macronutrients at their most digestible form is because anorexia destroys the gut and the body, and this is the fastest way to heal the body and restore at least some weight. Its possible to be weight restored within 6 weeks even without tube feeding, if you are fed adequate and whole nutrition. Some clients had been there for14 weeks, only to have gained 10 pounds. I did not gain a pound while at Selah. Before arriving, I ate approximately 1000 calories a day. I estimated that on an average day, I was fed 1500 calories, 300 more than a toddler needs to survive. Many clients believed Selah underfeeds to draw out the process so that clients stay longer, in turn making Selah more money. In the meantime, anxiety rises, so clients are put on more PNRs and SSRIs to reduce that anxiety, which again makes them more money.

Amazing, caring team of professionals who love Jesus and love people. So thankful for opportunities to refer to them!

Selah house definitely helped me a little bit. at first my state of mind was to get out of there and that was the only thing i focused on. now being home i am struggling so much. i wish they would have taught me a little more about what the after selah life would be like instead of titling it “the real world”. although i know it is the real world god knew how crazy it would be and how triggering it would be. before i went i didn’t realize body dysmorphia. they taught me to love myself at any size. although it is hard i tried and now coming out i am starting to fall back into my ed. i wish they would have allowed us to have mirrors but to be eye sighted because god knew coming home mirrors were the huge enemies. i thank selah for helping me in the moment but i hope if that is my option again for residential i can look forward to things other than going home:).

Thank you to selah house !! My daughter spent 8 weeks here and found healing !! The staff here are wonderful caring people !!! Our Family Therapist was an amazing gifted person !!!! They did such an amazing job communicating and making us parents feel involved !!! I’d recommend this place !!!!!

I was at the Selah house for about a month and that is were I found peace with my body and my mind. It has been about six months and I am doing the best I have for years. The staff was amazing, my parents helped me out a lot too, and I felt at home after a while. Although, I must say what helped me the most was to see other girls my age, or a little older, were going through the same things that I was going through. I am still going through my recovery and let me tell you, it has been rough, but I would be nowhere near as healthy as I am now if I did not go there. So thank you to everyone who has been apart of my journey. But most of all, thank you to everyone at the Selah house for helping me. Love you all!

Our experience with Selah House has been a nightmare. Our daughter was there for 40 days. She got WORSE while she was there. My wife and I were basically excluded from here treatment plan and treated like the problem. My daughter has an eating disorder, but she as always been obedient. She has never told me No until we were on a conference call with her and her therapist at Selah. Never. In the end, Selah told us she had to leave because she needed a higher level of care after 40 days. The communication was absolutely terrible. Getting someone on the phone, besides the receptionist in the business office, was nearly impossible. We were outright lied to a number of times by staff. Her therapist would not even reliably relay messages from us to our daughter when we asked. Amos, the CEO, quite nearly refused to find out our daughters current weight even after a heated exchange. He acted like we were not qualified to know. I had two interactions with Amos and both were like dealing with a sales manager at a car lot. No straight answers. Manipulative. Frustrating. He did not address our concerns to our satisfaction.My advice: Unless your daughter is 100% on board with recovery, go somewhere else. This place is for the easy cases.

Apparently if your BMI isn’t classified as underweight they don’t think you need treatment or at high risk even though you may be sitting in a hospital with medical complications related to an eating disorder and willing to pay out of pocket😡

Selah truly helped me, i miss it so much. it taught me a lot and surely did not “cure” me bc it taught me i’m not broken i’m just struggling and i can do it. some times are harder than others but i miss selah a lot because of the amazing people there who really deserve so much in life! i will forever love selah and the people there bc they helped me no matter what.

I would give zero starts if I could. My daughter had a horrible experience. One of the male family therapist in particular was condescending to her. If you are looking for high quality ED treatment for yourself or your loved one look into other places instead!

Look elsewhere No real concern for the well being of employees or patients.

Selah House saved and changed my life. Ive never been met with more compassion, love, and a desire from staff to help me get well. I would 100% recommend it to anyone looking into treatment.

Saved our daughter. The staff was wonderful and communicated so well. Its great to have my daughter back!!! I would highly recommend Selah House

I would give this treatment center zero stars if I could. Before admitting to Selah House, I did a 1.5 hour phone assessment with them in which I told them specific details of how past treatment experiences have gone. My outpatient therapist also spoke with them before admission to make sure that they would be a good fit for me since I had been to so many treatment centers in the past. They assured us that they would be able to take me. I was there for only a few days before they told me that they could not treat me, due to me having too many other co-occurring disorders, even though their website states that they do treat co-occurring disorders. From the start of my stay, the therapist and psychiatrist (who you never even meet with in person, only on Skype) did not even try to treat me. I never had any really sessions with the therapist. They were all based on trying to get me to transfer to a different facility. I found this ridiculous and very disturbing, considering that they had told both me and my outpatient therapist before admission that they were certain theyd be able to treat me. The therapist Cadee and dietitian Tori are absolute jokes. Same for anybody on the psychiatric and medical team. After two weeks of being there I was told that I could absolutely not stay and would need to transfer somewhere else. When I asked for reasons for this, Cadee and Tori just stared at me, smiled, and nodded their heads. There was no sufficient explanation. Two nurses there did tell me that they felt that I was given up on from the start and that I was never given any chance nor proper treatment at Selah House.As if this wasnt bad enough, they refused to send me to my new facility with any of my medication. They told me that they would overnight it to the other facility. I get severe panic attacks flying on airplanes and they would not even release me with a dose of my anxiety medication to take before the flight. To make matters worse, they did not overnight my meds and I had to go several days without any of my medication because Selah House did not follow through. I finally called after three days and asked if they had even bothered to send my medication and they assured me that they would overnight it the day it called. It still took three more days to arrive so I went almost a week without my medications because the pharmacy at my new treatment center could not get my insurance to cover new prescriptions since they had already been filled by Selah House. It was a nightmare. Throughout all of this, no one would put me through to a nurse for me to speak to about my meds. It was absolutely ridiculous.Lastly, Amos the CEO is another complete and total joke. He acts as though he cares, but does nothing. He finally got in touch with me regarding my concerns after me having to ask multiple times to speak with him. I told him my concerns and he said that he would be calling me back after he looked into everything. He said that my case didnt look much different from anybody else and that there didnt seem reason for them to transfer me. Now, weeks later, he still has not gotten back to me with answers about any of my complaints, despite me sending several emails and making phone calls.Again, this program is terrible. I would urge anybody looking into Selah House to go elsewhere. I have been to seven other treatment programs, and this is by far the worse. Staff does not know what they are doing and the way I was treated is not ok. Please do yourself a favor and look into a different program.

My first interaction was very negative. However, Amos showed a lot of care in trying to fix the problem within the admission staff.

Thanks to Selah House, the staff was fantastic, and you sent my daughter home healthy. This place is great!

If you our in need of help this is the place to go! Or if you our looking for a job, know when you get here youll gain a family!

Thank you for saving my life!