Elements Wilderness Announces Young Adult Program

We at Elements Wilderness Program are proud to announce the launch of our new young adult program, Elements Traverse.

Elements Traverse will be admitting clients on November 8, 2016.

Aligned with our core values of maintaining intentionally small and specialized treatment, Elements Traverse is a program designed from the ground up to serve the needs of young adult males. Just as you have experienced throughout our nearly 9 years of running the Elements adolescent program, our owner-operated management ensures that your clients will get our undivided attention.

To work hand-in-hand with our core ownership team, we have enlisted the talent of Janine Donald, MPA, and Caitlin Tharaldson, LCSW, to help us design and run a program that will feel as specialized as you know us to be with adolescents. Caitlin will be serving as primary therapist to our first group of young men, bringing with her 10 years in wilderness, with 3 years as a young adult therapist.

As with our adolescent program, our clients will benefit from some of the core principles that set Elements apart:

a hard cap on our group numbers and therapist caseload to ensure truly individualized treatment and attention
adventure that is built into the framework of the program and largely happening in our own field of operation, ensuring continuity of treatment where the experience is the focus, not the transitions
use of the Seven Challenges treatment modality to help our young adults take an honest evaluation of their relationship with substances and other maladaptive coping mechanisms
development of true coping skills using Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) to help our clients understand how to make the changes they want in their life
nearly limitless opportunities to work on the family system through our field visits and Family Focus run by our family clinicians

Please don't hesitate to reach out to us to learn more. You can reach John Karren at (801) 505-8481, or Andrew Powell by calling (801)-361-7782.

As with all momentous occasions such as this, we pause in gratitude to thank you for your years of support and encouragement, empowering us to take this very step with you in creating excellent treatment for young adults.

All our best,
The Elements Ownership and Team at Traverse
Caitlin Tharaldson, LCSW Primary Therapist
Janine Donald, MPA, Executive Director
Neal Christensen, PhD Clinical Director
Lynn Smith, LCSW Director of Family Services
Karen Scrafford, Program Director
Kate Brown, Admissions
John Karren, Admissions Director
Andrew Powell, MBA CEO

Elements Wilderness Program is an accredited outdoor behavioral healthcare program providing an intermediate level of mental health and substance treatment for young men, aged 13 � 17 who are struggling emotionally, behaviorally and/or relationally.