Trails Carolina
Lake Toxaway, NC

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Trails Carolina Expands
Clinical Team with Uhlenkott

Trails Carolina is excited to welcome Leigh Uhlenkott, LMHC, LPCS, NCC, back to her Wilderness Therapy roots. Leigh has expanded Trails' clinical services by adding a group for adolescent males.

Leigh says, "I am thrilled to be at Trails facilitating creative and impactful experiential interventions that are life changing. It is nice to be back in nature with few distractions and a beautiful environment to work with adolescents. The transformation that occurs is inspiring."

Leigh's 15 years of experience includes:

• A therapeutic boarding school for boys specializing in learning disabilities
• Wilderness therapy, working with adolescent males with multiple diagnoses
• FL schools providing counseling, prevention work, and substance abuse groups
• A hospital setting, private practice and counseling victims of domestic violence
• Family systems work, Person centered, and Psychodynamic therapy. She uses CBT, motivational interviewing, and considers herself Eclectic, pulling together the resources and tools that will best benefit the client.

Leigh's clinical strengths include:

• Depression and Anxiety
• Defiance
• Substance Abuse and Experimentation
• ADHD
• Divorced Families
• Executive Functioning Deficits
• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Adoption Issues
• School Phobia and Refusal

Welcome, Leigh!

At Trails Carolina, preparation and transition in multiple settings is key to leveraging the power of wilderness therapy. Through expedition, equine assisted counseling, academics and a team of professionals with more than 100 years combined experience, Trails Carolina facilitates a new beginning for not only each child we serve, but their family as well.

Trails Carolina is a wilderness program that works with boys and girls ranging from 10-13 years and 13-17. The clinically proven methods work exceptionally well with: Attachment, Family conflict, Low self-esteem, Depression, Anxiety, Defiant behavior, Adoption, Substance abuse, Manipulative behavior, Poor academic achievement, Learning differences, ADHD, and/or Trauma.