Summit Preparatory School
Kalispell, MT

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Sara Smithson Joins
Summit Prep's Clinical Team

Summit Prep is pleased to announce the welcome addition of Sara Smithson, LMSW to the Summit Prep clinical team. Sara received her LMSW in Social Work from the state of Georgia, her MSW from Smith College School for Social Work and a BA in English from Vassar College.

In addition to her work as a team therapist, Sara will also take the lead as experiential coordinator, due to her passion for experiential learning and outdoor education. Sara has been working with teens, young adults and adults for the past ten years primarily in therapeutic residential, wilderness therapy, outdoor experiential and community outpatient programs and settings.

In her spare time she likes enjoy the outdoors by backpacking, paddling and climbing. She also enjoys being creative through drawing and painting. Sara Smithton can be reached through email at: ssmithson@summitprepschool.org .

Summit Preparatory School is an accredited private non-profit therapeutic boarding school specializing in compassionate, relationship-based treatment of bright, capable high school age youth who are struggling in their current academic and/or home community due to emotional, academic and behavioral concerns. Summit integrates professional therapy and college preparatory academics within a warm, nurturing and dynamic community that energizes and challenges adolescents to succeed and transform their lives. Since its founding in 2001, Summit has served over 300 students. Its state-of the-art facilities are located on a forested 500-acre campus in Kalispell Montana overlooking Glacier National Park. Summit is accredited by the Montana Board of Public Education, the Northwest Accreditation Commission, and the Council on Accreditation; and is an active member of the Child Welfare League, the National Association of Therapeutic Schools & Programs, and the Pacific Northwest Association of Independent Schools.