Therapies
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Individual Therapy
Each teen attends multiple weekly sessions with expert clinicians. In addition, psychiatrists are part of the personal Treatment Team.
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Attachment-Based Family Therapy
We use Attachment-Based Family Therapy to strengthen the emotionally protective, secure-based, parent-child relationship while promoting adolescent autonomy.
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
This evidence-based approach alleviates distress resulting from PTSD and traumatic memories, by adapting the way the brain processes information.
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Family Therapy
We treat adolescents in the context of the entire family. Family members participate in weekly therapy, recovery work, and monitored group activities on weekends.
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Group Therapy Program
Daily group therapy sessions allow residents to build healthy relationships, support one another, and discuss the healing process together.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Our therapists use CBT and Trauma-Focused CBT to identify and modify thought and behavior patterns to create shifts from negative to positive mindset.
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DBT-Informed Skills
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)–informed skills help residents modify the unhealthy behaviors they used to cope with deeper underlying issues.
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Body Image Group
This therapeutic process group provides a gender-specific, safe, and supportive environment. Hence, teens can express their concerns about body perceptions and external appearance.
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Psychiatry
We perform a thorough clinical assessment to determine each incoming resident’s specific needs and create an individualized treatment plan that encompasses a variety of counseling and therapeutic modalities.
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Gender-Responsive Care
Clients’ preferred gender identity is honored with inclusivity, acceptance, and support within the treatment milieu, while related issues become the focus of individual and family therapy.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) combines acceptance and mindfulness with commitment and behavior-change strategies to increase psychological flexibility.
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Relational Trauma Repair
This interactive experiential modality includes therapeutic exercises to help heal the impact of relational trauma and attachment wounds, through practicing skills for connection and bonding.
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Person-Centered or Humanistic Therapy
This modality engages teens with unconditional positive regard, compassion, and empathy, allowing them to feel accepted, seen, and understood.
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Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing helps clients find the internal motivation they need to make lifestyle and behavior changes to address mental and physical health challenges.
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Recovery Lifestyle
Motivational Interviewing helps clients find the internal motivation they need to make lifestyle and behavior changes to address mental and physical health challenges.