Christian boarding schools and therapeutic schools for troubled teens with equine therapy, counseling for teens and troubled teen help.

Christian Boarding School for Struggling Teens

Restoring Teens and Their Families through Grace

Welcome to Abundant Life Academy!  We are an evangelical therapeutic boarding school designed for teens who are struggling. Our goal is to provide teens and their families with the tools and resources to thrive academically, relationally and spiritually. We help once troubled teens to begin living a life of love, service, acceptance and forgiveness, and equip them to become self-reliant, successful adults.

“I have come that they may have Life, and may have it in abundance.” – John 10:10
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Year-round enrollment in our boarding school is for both girls and boys ages 13-17.  Students are in separate academies. They have separate classes, lunch times, and leisure time, but they come together under direct supervision for youth group and church activities.

ALA is a Christian boarding school designed for teenagers that are:

  • Making poor and even dangerous choices
  • Acting entitled and selfish
  • Manipulating their family and others
  • Lying, sneaking out, isolating from family
  • Experimenting with sex, alcohol, or drugs
  • Rebelling against authority
  • Depressed or withdrawn
  • Diagnosed with ADD or ADHD
  • Academically behind or unmotivated.

If your teen is struggling and fits this description, call us at 888-305-6729 to speak to a boarding school admissions counselor immediately.  To request more information, click here for our online form.

Christian Counseling and Therapy for Teens in Crisis

ALA is a Christian boarding school with the goal of facilitating the restoration of a positive relationship between the teen and their family through therapy, mentoring, and the love and hope of Jesus Christ.  

We work with troubled teens that have good hearts and have come from loving families, but they have had a disconnect somewhere along the line. Academically, the teens we serve typically have been outstanding students in the past, or have the potential to be so, yet are not currently applying themselves.

Most of the teens that come our boarding school are struggling with selfishness, entitlement, and finding motivation primarily in the poor peer choices they are making. They are in need of restoration with their families, reconnecting to their relationship with God, and a greater understanding of the value of who they are and where they fit in in your family and in the world (their purpose).

We Offer Troubled Teens Counseling, Care and Preparation for the Future

Our therapeutic school and program provides early intervention for struggling boys and girls. We aim for a restored relationship between the teen and their entire family through intensive teen counseling and family interaction. Our Christian boarding school for boys and girls offers:

  • Academic Restoration
  • Aftercare Program
  • Individual and Group Counseling
  • Braincore™ Therapy
  • Celebrate Recovery™
  • Equine Therapy
  • Full Athletic Program
  • Mission/Service Trips
  • Parent Retreats and Training

Call us now. ALA is a therapeutic boarding school that can help your teen get on the other side of bad behaviors, anger and self-destruction. Allow our dedicated, Christian team help revive the hope that was once strong in your now struggling child by providing a safe, spiritually healthy platform for their academics and their relationship with Christ to be restored.

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Boarding school that provides troubled teens with teen counseling and adolescent therapy. Our therapeutic residential school serves teens from homes in the Midwest, in Texas, in California, in Oregon and in Washington State on the West Coast and in Arizona, in New Mexico, in Oklahoma and in Nevada in the Southwest. In the southern and central states we serve teens from homes in Arkansas, in Kentucky, in Tennessee, in Missouri, in Louisiana, in Florida, and in Mississippi. In the Midwest teens come to ALA from homes in Michigan, in Ohio, in Indiana, in Wisconsin and in Illinois. And in the northern states, from homes in Montana, in North Dakota, in Minnesota, and in Idaho. Troubled teens come to ALA mostly from the U.S. and Canada.

Christian Boarding School for Troubled Teens, with residential therapy for teens struggling with anger, depression, reactive attachment disorder (RAD), intermittent explosive disorder (IED), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), attention deficit, attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), substance abuse, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, self-harm, or rebellion.

CHRISTIAN BOARDING SCHOOLS FOR TROUBLED TEENS