Wonder Transitions and Aftercare

Transitions and aftercare programs are as important to the treatment journey as being in a program. Wonder’s expertise and experience is in the way we weave families’ home and community environments into our therapeutic approach. By bringing therapeutic work into everyday life, we help youth and parents practice skills in real time and navigate the “in the moment” emotions that show up. Family evolution happens when we learn to be present and stay in relationship, especially when real life stressors drive us into past patterns of communication.

We work with residential programs and educational consultants to create continuity in therapeutic goals and to ease transition home for youth and families.  Our masters level clinicians are skilled at building relationships with youth and families and will support them as they reconnect with each other, heal past wounds, and move forward together.  

Each program is individualized to match the needs of your family. Your clinical team continually assesses progress and collaborates with you to make any needed changes each month.   

Wonderness: Wilderness Aftercare

Wonderness Aftercare is an individualized 3 month wilderness aftercare program. We have designed effective ways to integrate the hard work teens, young adults, and their families have made in wilderness programs into everyday life ensuring ongoing, long lasting change.

Key Tenets of Wonderness Wilderness Aftercare include.

  • Mastering healthy relational skills takes practice in the real world. Being with clients day to day allows for the natural trial, error, and repair of communication which creates a safe space for youth and parents to learn together.

  • Gaining mastery in different real world environments. Using experiential support activates clients to integrate the concepts of therapy into concrete skill sets

  • Interweaving local coaches and community for long term, ongoing skill integration and development. Using local clinical teams creates a home base of support for clients and families resulting in an end to clinical work and beginning of healthier living.

  • Finding the sense of play and adventure in everyday life. Boots on the ground support extends the sense of adventure in wilderness to everyday life

We integrate the work from wilderness programs through:

  • Teen/Young Adult therapy and activity based coaching

  • Parent coaching

  • Family therapy at home

  • Individual and family wilderness excursions