Testimonials

“I have no doubt that the major factor in my recovery from my eating disorder was Brooke. I was deep into an eating disorder that nearly devastated me and my family. Brooke understands this disease on every level. She worked with me and my family using a variety of techniques to help me break free and journey towards recovery. Thank you, Brooke, for your wisdom, tenacity, and loving-kindness.”

54-year-old Female

“I was in a full-blown binge mode when I showed up at Farrington Specialty Counseling. Prior to coming, I had been involved in a big weight loss program.  It was at IOP (the Intensive Outpatient program at FSC) that I first heard about the binge/purge cycle.  Understanding this has been revolutionary to me. 

Brooke,  through her wisdom and many therapeutic tools, has been able to break through the barrier walls and help me to understand my eating disorder.   After 58 years of bad habits and faulty thinking, the journey to  mindful eating hasn’t been an easy one, but I now have hope!” 

58-year-old Female

“I had been to multiple therapists before coming to Brooke, so I was skeptical at first. During my first appointment with her, I felt at ease and knew she understood me. She is excellent at helping people, through anything. She has helped me manage my ED, and has been exceedingly patient with me when I have been non-compliant. I know no matter what, I can talk to Brooke and know that I am understood. She is not only an excellent therapist but also a wonderful person. I am so glad I started with Brooke.”

32-year-old Female

“My relationship with FSC began when my daughter, then a freshman in high school, developed anorexia nervosa and became compulsive with exercise. I was extremely lucky to have found a caring nutritionist who referred us right away to Brooke. As a parent, I was terrified. Brooke involved me right from the start in supporting my daughter with the right language and education and insight about why/how this condition had surfaced. Brooke also supported me through individual counseling sessions so that I could help control my own anxiety and not feed into my daughter’s disease and disordered thinking. My daughter had a goal to travel overseas for mission work that summer with her brother and Brooke helped her get there, feeling strong and with an awareness of her triggers. Since then Brooke has remained an ally to our family. My daughter is now studying overseas, 5 years later, and checks in with Brooke on every break from school. We never stopped learning to love our bodies under her guidance and care.”

- Parent of 15-year-old Female -

“We have 3 daughters and 1 son. As we were raising them, we worked very hard to teach them to avoid dangers like busy streets, strangers, hot stoves, and so on. Never did we anticipate the deadly, complicated threat our youngest daughter’s eating disorder would present. She is smart, kind, intelligent, and driven. In middle school, though, she began to withdraw and her eating patterns changed. We became terrified as we watched her begin to starve herself. As we began looking for help, we ended up admitting her to the hospital twice as her physical health began to decline. I found a local psychiatrist and hoped that he might provide a path to getting the help our daughter desperately needed. Unfortunately, his therapy was ineffective, and we realized quickly our only hope was to find someone experienced in treating this misunderstood illness called anorexia.
Brooke and her team were like angels coming to our rescue. Her treatment was specific to those suffering from eating disorders. She explained the illness and treatment plan required to get our daughter safe again. She was with us every step of inpatient treatment, intensive outpatient treatment, and ongoing therapy. We found hope in her knowledge and story. I am convinced that Brooke and her team saved our daughter’s life. Today our daughter is healthy and happy in her recovery.
Eating Disorders are dangerous and misunderstood illnesses. It is critical that sufferers find the help they need. I trusted Brooke and her team with my daughter’s life. I can with complete confidence recommend her to anyone seeking help for an eating disorder.”

Parents of Farrington Teenager

“I was surrounded in darkness, barely able to see enough to simply put one foot in front of the other. I remember feeling like I was in a glass cage, placed in the very center of Times Square, sometimes banging on the glass, yelling and screaming to get the attention of those walking by, to no avail. But most of the time I lie resigned to my cage, huddled in a ball, wrapping my arms around myself and watching the world move around me. At times feeling suffocated by my glass walls and my thoughts and always feeling envious of the happiness and light that seemed to be everywhere but around me, everywhere but inside me. Brooke saw me. She understood me. She taught me that I don’t have to yell and scream and harm myself to try to get people to understand my pain. She taught me that I don’t have to isolate myself and that my own arms don’t have to be the only things holding me together. She helped me break down the walls of my prison and join the world. I could leave my house. It was ok to be seen. Brooke was the beginning of my journey to uncover the light that burns inside us all. She was always in my corner and still is, 10 years later. There is hope, there is light and there are people who will truly see YOU, the staff at FSC are some of those people. I am eternally grateful."

15-year-old Female