Penikese
Woods Hole, MA

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Dr. Young Named Associate Clinical
Director At Penikese

Dr. Alex Young, PsyD, has been named Penikese’s Senior Clinician.

"We are pleased to welcome Dr. Young to the Penikese family," stated Penikese’s Executive Director, Don Vardell. "Alex is a great addition to our seasoned team of professionals. Having grown up fishing, sailing and oystering in Buzzards Bay, Alex will not only feel at home on Penikese, but offer a great deal of knowledge and experience to our residents."

Alex is a graduate of Wheaton College and earned both his M.A. and his PsyD from Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. He comes to Penikese from South End Community Health Center in Boston, MA and a private practice in Brookline, MA.

Penikese offers a new program that is alternative to wilderness placements. As a short term, intervention oriented program, Penikese now offers families and educational consultants another option in the northeast to the traditional wilderness therapy placement for teenage boys struggling with mood, anxiety, and family conflict as well as substance abuse. While a wilderness intervention is appropriate for many teens, Penikese should be considered for boys who can engage in the community living, stewardship, boat-building and academic modules that only Penikese offers. Providing significantly more clinical services than many wilderness treatment programs – multiple individual therapy sessions per week, physical access to a clinician Monday through Friday, mindfulness-based CBT and DBT group therapy, and an unparalleled experiential curriculum, Penikese can be that northeastern, short-term treatment program for which many referral sources have yearned.

For more information on how Penikese can match, if not exceed, the services offered at a typical wilderness program, click here www.penikese.org/why-penikese/.

Penikese, a non-profit, short term residential treatment program in Massachusetts for boys, ages 14 to 17, with substance abuse issues coupled with “internalizing” mental health challenges – anxiety, mood, attachment and trauma.