-Blue Ridge Therapeutic Wilderness

Outdoor Therapeutic Program

Clayton, GA

Established in 2002

Second Nature Blue Ridge is a licensed treatment program that uses the wilderness setting in a clinically focused intervention to teach students accountability, communication skills, and healthy emotional and behavioral habits. Treatment plans are individualized for each student and include flexible lengths of stay, single gender treatment groups, daily group therapy, and individualized therapy sessions with doctorate level therapists twice weekly.

Second ...read moreNature Blue Ridge works with students ages 11 to 17 with a range of emotional and behavioral issues including Depression, Learning Differences, Oppositional Defiance, Attention Deficit, Attachment, and Substance Abuse Disorders. Typical students fail to respond to limits and rules, act entitled, choose the wrong friends, underachieve, have low self-esteem, experience a decline in academic performance, and may be experiencing parent-child conflict.