For people who have experienced extreme states of mind... you may have experienced debilitating depression, symptoms of psychosis, manic behavior, or psychological reactions to drug use. You may have been hospitalized, possibly a traumatic experience itself. You may be managing with the help of medications. You are committed to your recovery and a better quality of life. A wilderness experience restores your sense of self-control, motivation, and confidence. Working together to maintain a healthy situation through cooking and cleaning, dressing appropriately for the weather, and constructing shelter brings our attention to the moment. Learning to thrive in the wilderness and succeed in physical challenges connects the mind and the body and grounds our experience. HealingQuest puts your safety first, maintaining communication with your caregivers and supporting your home care plan. You may be accompanied by people you have established relationships with, such as friends, caregivers, or family members. Proper nutrition fuels the experience, and appropriate physical challenges are designed with participants capacities and growth in mind. For people recovering from addictions such as: * drug or alcohol dependency * nicotine addiction * sex addiction * workaholics HealingQuest offers wilderness experience to contact the balance nature provides. Trips emphasize being present in the natural environment and with other participants, to reflect and experience insight. People recovering from trauma related to... * Domestic Violence * Emotionally Traumatic Relationships * Medical Procedures and Accidents * Sexual Violence may experience disruptive or intrusive thoughts, body sensations including pain or digestive distress, sleeplessness, over-reactivity, heightened vigilance, or exhaustion among a variety of possible symptoms. You may have already sought treatment and have a relationship with a therapist. HealingQuest works with your therapist to craft a wilderness experience to meet your therapeutic goals. A trip may be unstructured for you to experience the environment directly and have your own insights and learnings. In a more structured Experienced HealingQuest therapists can deliver EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Equine Assisted Therapy, and other modalities to specifically address trauma, in a wilderness setting. Peter Levine, author of Waking the Tiger and originator of Somatic Experiencing, a somatic (body based) method of resolving traumatic symptoms states "the wilderness environment is perfect trauma resolution. The physical nature of being in the wilderness brings a person into contact with their body, which is essential for the body's natural process to manifest." For therapists, team leaders, and administrators... HealingQuest provides adjunct wilderness therapy, increasing your program options. Without investing in outdoor equipment or creating outdoor programming yourself, you can rely on HealingQuest therapists and field instructors to create safe and therapeutically valuable experiences for the people you are helping. Staff are trained therapists with: * counseling skills including basic attendance, individual counseling and group counseling * experience with people in recovery from extreme states and in recover from addiction * expert outdoor skills and experience * medical training to assure participant safety (Wilderness First Responder) * supervision from experienced wilderness therapists * commitment to enact the primary caregivers plans, including medication * licensure and insurance HealingQuest also employs therapists with specialized training to address trauma, such as: * EMDR * Somatic Experiencing * Hakomi * Gestalt Adjunct therapy means HealingQuest wilderness therapists work with primary caregivers to define program goals, communication requirements, and limits to therapy. For families in difficulty... HealingQuest provides primary or adjunct wilderness family therapy, using the gestalt interventions to bring families into contact and address the dynamic of the the family which no longer works. Working together to create an uplifting situation while in a natural environment allows HealingQuest therapists opportunities to intervene in family patterns and help families establish a more stable system. HealingQuest supports familes already in therapy by working with the family's therapist to design an accessible, useful experience. Program A wilderness experience can take many forms. Trips can be day trips or multiple days. HealingQuest will facilitate with as few as a single person or as many as eight. On trips, individual and group therapy are available depending on the group or individual's goals. Therapy can be a traditional face-to-face session, group, and by incorporating elements such as: * Nature as therapist * Rock climbing * Solos * Rites of Passage * Equine Assisted (interacting with horses) * Hi and low "ropes" elements and adventure courses * Physical challenges (hiking, peak ascents, running) * Learning novel outdoor skills * Flatwater canoeing, whitewater rafting A HealingQuest begins with consultation between our therapists and people's primary therapists to define goals, processes, and limits. The Quest, regardless of length, follows in these stages: * Training and Framing * Threshold * In Place * Return * Integration Field Director and Intern Therapist Andrew Rose Andrew is a seasoned outdoor leader, teacher, and guide. Besides NOLS Winter Camping, NOLS Outdoor Educator, and Outward Bound Dog Sled trips, Andrew has 5 years of outdoor leadership experience, with advanced skills in backcountry navigation, snow camping, skiing, canoeing and rock climbing. Through teaching high school and guiding adolescents in recovery, Andrew acquired experience and counseling skills that support HealingQuest’s outdoor ethics, values, and clinical themes. Andrew is certified in outdoor safety and rescue, including Wilderness First Responder (WFR) and Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician (W-EMT), and has field experience with adolescent wilderness recovery programs in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. Andrew has degrees in Secondary School Education (San Francisco State University) and Transpersonal Counseling Psychology concentrating in Wilderness Therapy (MA Naropa University, expected '08), and a BA from Cornell University '91. Amy Winchester Clinical Director Amy has been working with people as an educator and clinician for ten years. She has worked as a therapist on 21-day wilderness expeditions with at-risk adolescents, as well as in outpatient settings, schools, and at a detoxification center. Prior to her counseling career Amy was a science and outdoor educator with youth in the Pacific Northwest. Amy currently has a private practice, and is a guide with the Women’s Wilderness Institute in Boulder. She received her MA in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, with an emphasis in Wilderness Therapy, from Naropa University. Amy combines her love of the outdoors with a belief that we hold our strongest potentials to be whole, open, and happy when we are in consistent contact with nature. 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