Clinical Treatment Philosophy

Our typical student profile includes girls that struggle with executive functioning delays (ADHD, NLD, LD), anxiety, loss/trauma, difficulties with peer relationships, school troubles, mood/emotional instability, divorce, and family conflict. Out therapeutic milieu is relationship focused, using natural and logical consequences, empathy, honesty, and behavior identification to increase awareness and accountability. For young adolescent girls, it’s important that they learn to identify troublesome behavior and discover the roots of it. Residential coaches work directly with individual therapists to provide treatment consistency and continuity. As a result of this collaboration, the incidences of troublesome behavior are addressed as they arise, in school or in the peer culture, in a therapeutically appropriate manner. Additionally, we use a strengths based approach to working with our students. It is not enough to redirect problematic behavior; we also seek to build on each girls unique attributes, interests, talents, and capabilities. In school and in the milieu, girls are given the opportunity to share their interests with their peers, take on leadership roles and responsibilities, engage in team sports, volunteer in the community, and explore a variety of artistic mediums. By cultivating their strengths, we help them to develop positive avenues for self-expression and self-esteem. In addition to creating a therapeutic milieu that promotes growth in the course of daily life, we also provide scheduled therapy that includes:

• Weekly individual therapy sessions
• Weekly family therapy sessions
• Daily group therapy

Targeted psychotherapy groups focusing on specific issues, such as bullying, relational aggression, body-centered awareness, body image, technology addictions, and social skills. Our relational approach is married with research-based therapies that, together, form the foundation for healing and success. Our licensed therapists are experienced in applying a number of modalities that they use in combination according to your daughter's specific needs; these modalities include:

• Expressive Art Therapy
• Body Centered Therapy
• Specialty and Psycho-educational groups
• Equine Therapy
• Recreational Therapy
• Family Systems Therapy
• Locus of Control