Parents looking for effective therapy methods to help a struggling young boy or girl can learn about Experiential Therapy used at our therapeutic boarding school in Missouri.
Ozark Trails Academy understands that parents want to send a child to a safe, monitored environment where their child receives personal care, and individual therapies that help heal emotional and mental disorders–whether brought on by trauma, foster care, adoption or family genetics.
And while the young child or teen enrolls our therapeutic boarding school for counseling, treatment, and improving academic/life skills, Ozark Trails Academy also helps students improve mental and physical health through Experiential Therapy, led by licensed therapists.
Definition of Experiential Therapy:
“Experiential therapy is a therapeutic technique that uses expressive tools and activities, such as role-playing or acting, props, arts and crafts, music, animal care, guided imagery, or various forms of recreation to re-enact and re-experience emotional situations from past and recent relationships. The client focuses on the activities and, through the experience, begins to identify emotions associated with success, disappointment, responsibility, and self-esteem. Under the guidance of a trained experiential therapist, the client can begin to release and explore negative feelings of anger, hurt, or shame as they relate to past experiences that may have been blocked or still linger.” 1
“Experiential therapy is often used in the treatment of trauma, eating disorders, behavior disorders, anger management, grief and loss recovery, substance abuse, and various types of physical and behavioral addictions and compulsive behavior such as gambling. It is also recommended for those who wish to be free of painful, unhappy, or otherwise bad feelings from past experiences, to change the nature of their current and future relationships, and to live up to their full potential.” 1
“A fundamental premise of experiential therapy is that one’s perception determines one’s behavior. By re-experiencing and releasing repressed negative emotions from the past, the client is better able to experience positive feelings such as love, forgiveness, and calm in the present, changing their perception of reality.” 1
Experiential Therapy Enhances Student’s Individual Treatment at Ozark Trails
That’s why Ozark Trails Academy uses Experiential Therapy in Individual therapy. We want each student to experience effective counseling as well as improve daily life at school, and back home with family.
If you want to learn more about how Experiential Therapy effectively helps students open up and heal at our therapeutic boarding school, please call (417) 278-6868 now.
Sources:
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapy-types/experiential-therapy
