Outdoor Wilderness Therapy
Adirondack Leadership Expeditions - Saranac Lake, NY - Co-educational - Ages 14-17
Adirondack Leadership Expeditions is a character development program that promotes personal growth through a focus on insight-oriented experiences. The forested, mountain setting removes urban distractions and simplifies options to help students gain insight into their core values and accept responsibility for their choices. Our program's nurturing approach helps participants address personal issues, achieve success in a safe environment, and develop their leadership potential.
Aspen Achievement Academy - Loa, Utah - Co-educational - Ages 13-17
Aspen Achievement Academy is a fully-accredited, professionally supervised outdoor therapy program for adolescents, ages 13-17. Aspen specializes in working with adolescents who exhibit behavioral or emotional problems, low self-esteem, poor grades, depression, defiance toward authority, and other self-defeating behaviors. Named one of the nation's most reputable programs by U.S. News & World Report.
Phoenix Outdoor - Asheville, North Carolina - Co-educational - Ages 13-17
Phoenix Outdoor is a licensed wilderness-based substance abuse and chemical dependency treatment program located near Asheville, North Carolina for teenagers ages 13-17. Wilderness therapy removes distractions, prevents the possibility of substance use during treatment, and offers a high impact intervention leading the adolescent to realize there is a need for change. Phoenix conducts an in-depth assessment to determine the severity of substance use, identifies and works through issues that lead to the behavior, offers a specialized therapeutic curriculum, and introduces the 12-Step process.
Passages to Recovery - Loa, Utah - Co-educational - Ages 18 & over
Passages to Recovery is a 35-50 day intensive outdoor drug and alcohol rehabilitation program for, ages 18 and over, operating in the beautiful high desert region of Southern Utah. The program offers a unique, innovative approach to substance abuse treatment, integrating a 12-step treatment with wilderness journeying and rites of passage. In addition, Passages to Recovery offers primitive living skills, general physical fitness, a strong yet diverse spiritual component, family participation and aftercare planning. Passages to Recovery's staff includes experienced wilderness therapy guides, licensed therapists, and chemical dependency recovery professionals.
SUWS Youth & Adolescent - Gooding, Idaho - Co-educational - Ages 11-17
SUWS Adolescent and Youth Programs specialize in helping struggling teens with behavioral and emotional problems. Operating in southern Idaho since 1981, SUWS has assisted young people with identifying and working through internal conflicts and emotional obstacles that have kept them from responding to parental efforts, schools, and treatment. These are children who are inherently good and have the ability to be successful, but because of unhealthy misperceptions about themselves, they have limited access to their own abilities and strengths. SUWS provides families with a safe and immediate intervention by utilizing its search and rescue metaphor, individualized treatment plans, and flexible length of stay. The outdoor environment and experiential learning help students recognize and build upon their own sense of self-worth as they learn the value of helping others. Our Youth Program addresses the distinctive needs of younger children, ages 11-13.
SUWS of the Carolinas - Old Fort, NC - Co-educational - Ages 14-18
Employing the successful therapeutic process of it's West Coast sister program, SUWS of the Carolinas incorporates the Search and Rescue metaphor in the serene beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains. SUWS of the Carolinas has a flexible length-of-stay, typically between 4 and 7 weeks, with extended care options. SUWS of the Carolinas offers an expanded curriculum designed to address the needs of those families seeking solace for their struggling child, ages 14-18. Distinguished by its three-day parent program component, a clinical PhD on-staff, and licensed counselors, SUWS of the Carolinas offers hope.
SUWS Seasons - Old Fort, NC - Co-educational - Ages 11-13
SUWS Seasons is a licensed, clinically focused treatment program that focuses on the very specific needs of 11 to 13 year-olds. Becuase pre-adolescent children and younger teens think in concrete terms and require tangible experiences from which to build, the program's goal is to create reference points that each child may tap into later for positive self-reinforcement. The staff and daily curriculum give students the tools they will need to chart a course for future growth and success and begin making progress in their lives.
Outback Therapeutic Expeditions - Lehi, Utah - Coeducational - Ages 13-17
Outback Therapeutic Expeditions wilderness therapy program for youth ages 13-17 blends the best of the "ancient cultural systems" with the most effective and proven therapeutic processes. Many of our students have been experiencing family conflict, been involved in negative peer groups, were isolating themselves, or were focusing excessive time on computers. Some have been struggling academically, have low self-esteem, may be abusive toward their parents and siblings, or may be experimenting with drugs and alcohol. Others are bright but underachieving. Your child will experience the highest standards of safety and therapy in the context of one of the most powerful settings for real change - the wilderness. Students can earn academic credit while in the program.
