Therapy
Healthy Food Connections
Two years ago, therapists Kara Bazzi, Alexia Giblin and Julie Church decided to take their collective eating-disorder therapy practices from the University of Washington and Seattle Pacific University to start their own clinic in the heart of the University District. Opal Food and Body Wisdom (opalfoodandbody.com) occupies a few unique niches: It’s independent, owned by…
Therapeutic Arts
It may seem counterintuitive: Ask movement-challenged people to not only move, but dance; or those with memory issues to observe the details of paintings. But that is exactly what a collaboration between some Seattle arts groups and health care organizations is off ering to patients, and their caregivers, with Parkinson’s and dementia. Dance for Parkinson’s…
Soldiering On: New Methods for Battling PTSD
From mobile apps to meditation, local practitioners are pioneering fresh ways to fight back against
Beyond two locked security doors on the seventh floor of Seattle’s Veterans Affairs hospital (VA) on Beacon Hill, patients are treated for some of the more severe cases of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and a web of other issues. Some of them are depressed, some are suicidal, and some are simply not functioning because of…