Wilderness Therapy Camp Elgin, IL
WinGate's industry-leading wilderness therapy camp gives the highest level of care for troubled youth from the Elgin, IL area. Our highly trained and experienced counselors can provide adolescent boys and girls with the help needed to experience optimal growth and success during their enrollment in WinGate's wilderness behavioral health program.
In addition, our team of expert therapists and clinicians can provide the critical care and direction teens from the Elgin, IL area need to heal past trauma and find the path that will lead them to their most fulfilled life. Whether related to alcohol abuse, depression or even behavioral issues, our critical care and assistance can help.
WinGate Wilderness Therapy uses the most effective clinical approaches and modalities, including Experiential therapy, Alliance-based therapy, and Individualized clinical treatment, in order to offer the best help for our teen students in need of care and direction for optimal recovery.
As a result, WinGate's wilderness therapy camp has been guiding teenagers from the Elgin, IL area reach their fullest potential since 2008. Our synergistic approach combines the life-changing elements of a wilderness experience with the best of proven therapeutic practices. We are here to say to all families in crisis, that "there is hope," and you will find it once again through the life changing experience at WinGate Wilderness Therapy.
Where to Send a Defiant Teenager?
Finding support for defiant adolescent boys and girls can be a daunting task, especially when any help offered gives one more thing they can push back against. WinGate's wilderness therapy camp employs the most caring and clinically savvy staff of counselors in the industry, ensuring that Elgin, IL youth experience the safest and most effective therapeutic environment and progress in their therapeutic journey.
With years of experience and expertise, our therapists know how to reach even the most defiant teens. WinGate Wilderness Therapy camp provides an environment free from screens and other distracting stimuli, allowing our most defiant teenage participants the space to explore what is underneath, and at the base of their destructive behaviors and maladaptive coping skills.
WinGate teaches our struggling teen students to push forward instead of pushing against. At WinGate, defiant adolescent wilderness participants learn to focus and channel their energy into productive avenues of growth and recovery. In addition, WinGate's wilderness therapy camp creates opportunities for success instead of obstacles to rebel against or resist.
Finally, WinGate believes that a personal and relational approach to resistant behavior is the optimal way to get defiant teenagers to see their real potential. Our life changing outdoor therapy offers a safe, nurturing, and supportive environment that gives hope and healing to families.
Wilderness Camp for Troubled Youth from Elgin, IL
Wilderness camp for troubled youth provides a viable option for adolescent boys and girls from the Elgin, IL area to find the assistance and help they need to reach their goals and achieve continued success. At WinGate, we treat every teenage participants as an individual, focusing on what each emotionally challenged adolescent needs to heal and succeed on a more personal level.
Each teen student has a personalized treatment plan designed to meet their individual needs while offering the direction required to help them thrive in their therapeutic journey. Our purpose is to lead the family back to a pathway of harmony and balance, replacing resistance with responsiveness.
Accredited Wilderness Therapy Program
The WinGate Wilderness Therapy program is a fully licensed treatment facility and outdoor therapy program. WinGate participates in evidence-based studies and programs and is accredited by AEE. WinGate is a member of NATSAP, and meets the highest standards set by the state of Utah for residential treatment programs. WinGate Wilderness Therapy programs ensure that it maintains best care practices beyond what is required to offer the best level of care for each teenage participant.
WinGate creates an environment built to counsel troubled teens with finding a new direction and purpose in life. This synergistic program combines the life-changing elements of a wilderness experience with the best of proven therapeutic practices. This combination creates distance from the turmoil and distractions, and gives a profound environment for recovery. With challenge, tranquility and professional assistance, adolescent wilderness participants and parents receive a much needed road map for the future.
WinGate is one of the premier wilderness therapeutic programs in the U.S. Our owner-operated wilderness behavioral health program is for struggling youth ages 13 to 17. Call a WinGate admissions director today, so we can help lead your emotionally challenged teen and family back to a pathway of harmony and balance.
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