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02.21.2024

3 Phases Experienced During Treatment

When your teen is struggling, you want to keep them safe and happy. But it can be hard to know what to do when their emotions or reactions are big and overwhelming. Understanding the three phases experienced during treatment can help you support your teen and yourself during this time of stabilization and trauma processing.

12.15.2023

Holidays Away from Home

As a parent, you might be hesitant for your child to spend the holidays away from home, thinking it better to wait until the new year.

08.15.2022

Teen Treatment’s Troubled History

Teen treatment has been in the news recently, and not for good reasons. Celebrities like Paris Hilton, Jenny Pentland, and Paris Jackson are among those who have come forward with stories from their time in treatment facilities and reform schools that were supposed to help troubled teens. They’re stories not of hope and healing, but […]

03.18.2022

Taking Treatment into the Great Outdoors

Why is being in the great outdoors so helpful to our mental well-being? The benefits of spending time in nature have long been understood, and their value in therapy is beginning to be accepted and documented by psychological research. That’s sprouted into a branch of treatment called nature therapy, or “ecotherapy,” which combines the benefits […]