Many of the students that attend Monuments have been in traditional therapeutic settings for many years (outpatient, in office models). This “experience” has given them the tools and ability to handle therapy talk very well. With this understanding, Monuments takes a different approach. Our therapists are actively engaged in the experiential process with the students. This is where true relationship building and client understanding happens. Our therapists are not tied to an office, and instead are expected to be out with the students in what we call shoulder-to-shoulder therapy. You can often find our clinicians on a hike, on horseback, taking the students out for lunch, on the ski slopes in the winter, or even camping with the boys.

The therapeutic schedule for each student includes individual sessions that happen at least weekly. Depending on the need of each individual student these sessions can incorporate traditional, evidence based and proven strategies including CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy), DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy), EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).