His Story
A different idea about healing
Early in his career, working with people suffering from eating disorders, Gregg Jantz uncovered a disconnect in the treatment available to those who were hurting. His patients weren’t battling one illness in isolation — depression, anxiety, addiction, and trauma were woven together. Yet care was siloed: talk therapy here, medication there, nutrition rarely considered, the spirit almost never.
So in 1984, he built something the field had not seen. At The Center • A Place of HOPE in Edmonds, Washington, counselors, psychiatric providers, naturopathic physicians, dietitians, and fitness specialists worked together from one shared treatment plan. Sleep, faith, family, and what someone ate for breakfast were taken as seriously as the diagnosis on the chart.
At the time, it was radical. Forty years later, the field is still catching up. The Center grew into one of the nation’s Top 10 facilities for the treatment of depression, drawing people to Edmonds from across the country and around the world.
