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!
AtTrails 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.