journey bound counseling
Thanks to our diversified staff team, we offer a continuum of care. The bedrock of all services is adventure therapy, and it is integrated into everything we do.
In addition to adventure therapy, all members, from educators to interns to fully licensed therapists, receive training in acceptance and commitment therapy and collaborative & proactive solutions. We view these modalities as gate breakers to a healthier world and want to invite all people in.
This common ground cultivates shared power as a collective of professionals, teens and families.
the adventurous nature of healing
Take a walk...
Our work focuses on "doing" things as opposed to "talking about doing" these things. When we're focused on what we're doing, we tap into the deep well of intuitive wisdom stored in our bodies, not just our brains. Ironically, it's our brains that get in the way a lot of the time. By connecting with body-based knowledge, we can regain balance between these two parts of ourselves, so that our thoughts and actions work better together. It serves as a helpful addition to talk therapy by broadening the bridge that a person is building when "talking things through" by adding opportunities to "act things out."
On the wild side!
Adventure is unique in its ability to surprise us, which is good when it comes to challenging our assumptions and the status quo of our lives. What joy to realize that this moment is life's perfect teacher, no fixing by us required! By loosening our grip on our tightly held beliefs, we can open our arms to reality as it is and make more meaningful choices for ourselves.
Together.
Community is integrated within every level of our care model. We take a principled stance on building community because we believe the connections people cultivate often provide the security they need to change their lives. No human is immune to the burden (and blessing!) of consciousness, and this comes with a lot of self-conscious side effects. We're better equipped to handle this hard moments when we have the backing of people we trust. In connecting with people we may not have otherwise, we also realize that our reactions may not be so different after all. When we're learning in community, there's plenty of opportunities connect around experiences that we may have found so isolating all of our lives. We also find adventure fosters easy connection in small moments, through shared laugh or an encouraging smile. Normalizing opportunities for such natural feedback makes it easier to exchange it in other areas of our lives, leading to more intimate, honest relationships, including the one with ourselves.
ACCEPTANCE & COMMITMENT THERAPY
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an action-oriented approach to engaging life on its terms rather than ours.
ACT sprouts from relational frame theory (RFT), which examines the complex and at times entangling relationship between language and beliefs. ACT couples mindfulness and acceptance processes with commitment and behavioral activation interventions to help us remain open, centered and engaged with our life.
What we learn from ACT applies to all humans, not just the "sick" ones. This makes ACT a natural anchor for the continuum of work we do.
COLLABORATIVE & PROACTIVE SOLUTIONS
Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) is a family-based skills framework for behaviors that are getting in the way with growth.
Originally intended for parents supporting a struggling child, CPS uses interpersonal interventions to improve skill development. It includes a step-by-step guide involving collaboration, modeling and coaching.
We like it because it's not only helpful to interested parents, it works for us too! In fact, it's the framework we use when facing treatment-interfering behaviors alongside our teens.
investment
This isn't just a therapy practice where you get weekly therapy. At Journey Bound we see therapy as a part of the healing process, not the whole. In addition to offering individual, family and group therapy, our licensed therapists and master's level students provide support for many operational efforts. We are clinical social workers first, therapists second, meaning you're just as likely to see the head honcho up to her knees scooping poop as you are the first week intern. We love being integrated members of the crew, making hot dogs, doing school pick-ups and supporting daily operations. Everyone receives training, supervision and support from the same source, and we ALL train together as a crew. This results in more trauma-informed, intentionally delivered services, no matter if that service is being provided by a seasoned clinician who's been doing this for 15+ years or an agency affiliated counselor who never did go back and get their GED.
In the way of therapy, our master's level practicum students offer accessible individual therapy and parent coaching using ACT and CPS. We've chosen these frameworks to complement the advanced trainings which our therapists engage in. These models are accessible, not only in cost, but also to audience, making them the perfect platform for our practicum students. Because of this, therapy conducted by master's level practicum students can be provided at a reduced rate of $90 per session.
When advanced care needs arise, therapists provide manualized treatments like EMDR and ABFT.
Becoming EMDR-trained is as serious commitment for our therapists. Basic EMDR training for a single practitioner is costs upwards of $3k, involves 40+ hours of coursework, and months of specialized supervision. To compensate our therapists for their professional obligations to expensive degrees and advanced training, our private pay rate for individual therapy is $180 per 53-minute session. Please contact your insurance carrier regarding out-of-network benefits as we are happy to provide superbills for your reimbursement.
These rates help pay the wages for our crew members who can't submit reimbursement for their invaluable work, like our experiential educators. Your investment goes directly towards the base camp youth program and the experiential educators whose work isn't recognized by traditional funding streams.
advanced options for complex cases
EMDR
ABFT
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based treatment model intended to reduce the emotional intensity of painful memories and ensuing beliefs. Through this structured, multi-phased process, clients re-process experiences that have gotten "stuck" through a gentle yet powerful somatic approach.
EMDR is grounded in the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model and posits that our brain is hardwired to process adversity adaptively, similar to the ways our body naturally works to heal wounds. Extreme stress disrupts this process, causing associated memories to be stored in isolated networks, disconnected from our resilient neural network and remaining "active" in our nervous system.
EMDR works hand-in-hand with adventure therapy, which also approaches adversity through intuitive channels within the body. We often integrate the two for a more expansive client experience.
Attachment-based family therapy (ABFT) is an empirically supported family therapy model specifically designed to restore the foundation of trust within the family. It targets family and individual processes through a series of relational tasks, resulting in a secure, emotionally protective parent–child relationship.
ABFT is rooted in attachment theory and espouses that the quality of a child's relationship with their caregiver significantly influences the child's mental health. A strong, safe relationship with a caregiver is demonstrated to be one of the determining factors of a child's resilience in the face of adversity. In fact, it's this relationship that often buffers a child from the painful side effects of trauma.
Equipped with this knowledge,
Journey Bound therapists offer this 12-16 week family treatment in conjunction with individual therapy for any client enrolled in the Base Camp youth program. We often encourage families to start this process early on in the program. Doing so lays the groundwork for constructive conversations as clients become better equipped to tackle harder tasks throughout their work.
Because we see it as an inalienable part of the Base Camp process, we ask the investment for families be paid in their time, not their pockets. ABFT is available for any active clients enrolled in the Base Camp program for a reduced rate of $90 per 53-minute session.
Specialized family therapy offered to 100% of clients. That's right. every. single. one.