Dr. Gregory Jantz: The Center for Counseling and Health Resources

Before Dr. Gregory Jantz founded The Center for Counseling and Health Resources, Inc., in 1984, clients seeking help for eating disorders, depression, stress, addictions, relationships, and in other areas typically saw such professionals as physicians, mental health providers, counselors, and pastors, receiving aid in those different areas. An entrepreneur at heart, Dr. Jantz created the center in Edmonds, Washington, to provide a whole-person approach to a range of mental health issues, coordinating physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual challenges. The doctor, a licensed mental health counselor with state certification in chemical dependency and national certification as an eating disorder specialist, assembled a team of physicians, registered nurses, nutritionists, certified fitness trainers, massage therapists, recovery managers, and other professionals to provide hope and recovery.

Dr. Jantz’s whole-person approach at the center includes a four-week intensive-treatment program for food-related disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating, with options to extend the stay to 60 or 90 days based on client need. The Center for Counseling and Health Resources also offers a transitional care program that lasts longer. In addition, the facility suggests three to six months of follow-up telephone sessions for those treated for anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and related disorders. The Dr. Phil Show and Intervention on the A&E network have referred individuals to the center for eating-disorders and/or addiction problems.

The center’s founder has written more than two dozen books, including Turning Your Down into Up: A Realistic Plan for Healing from Depression; and Raising Boys by Design: What the Bible and Brain Science Reveal about What Your Son Needs to Thrive, both due out in 2013. A frequent contributor on national media outlets, including television, print, and online, he also hosts a radio show on a Christian network and fulfills numerous speaking engagements internationally. Today, the center assists people in more than 40 cities across the nation and 2 in Canada. One person’s entrepreneurial vision has led to hope and healing for untold women, men, and adolescents, arguably changing the world.