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Aspen Achievement Academy
98 S Main St
Loa UT 84747
Tel: 435 836-2472

20 Years of Wilderness Therapy

Aspen Achievement Academy is a licensed treatment program that integrates an accredited academic component, a sophisticated therapeutic model, and an experiential education curriculum in a healing wilderness environment. Aspen Academy recently participated in a landmark study of wilderness therapy that showed a dramatic improvement in teen behavior after participation in this type of program.

The Academy creates a modern “rite of passage” designed to assist adolescents in making the transition to responsible young adulthood. It guides each participant through a series of powerful metaphors that symbolize stages of growth, provide deeper insight towards developing self-reliance, and generate a sense responsibility for self and community. Aspen’s clinical focus is on insight-oriented therapy, rather than behavior modification. The model helps our students gain awareness of their emotional and behavior habits. This unique, nurturing approach allows our students to address individual issues, become engaged in their personal success, and begin the process of bringing their families back together.

Aspen specializes in treating adolescents who exhibit any of the following behaviors.
* Low self-esteem
* Lack of motivation
* Trouble with teachers
* Poor grades
* Depression
* Confrontational behavior
* Substance abuse
* Defiance toward authority
* Manipulative behavior
* Entitlement

Being a teenager today is tougher than it has ever been before. The clear-cut rites of a simpler society permitted children to move into adulthood in a natural and predictable way. Today's teenagers and their parents no longer have the benefit of such clear rites and predictable pathways. As a result, even talented young people and well-meaning parents often struggle with the balance between independence and reliance upon families.

Teens today lack cultural rituals and pathways – or "rites of passage" – to maturity. Nowhere is the need for such rites more apparent (and help for teens and parents more necessary) than in the case of the troubled teenager. One of the most remarkable aspects of Aspen’s innovative outdoor therapy program is our proven ability to allow nature and skilled staff members to nurture self-reliance and self-respect, thus providing an appropriate rite of passage toward responsible young adulthood.