The ALA Difference for Christian Troubled Teens

Abundant Life Academy’s therapeutic program differs from the average boarding school. The primary modality for most emotional growth or therapeutic boarding schools is what is known as behavior modification or, in it’s simplest terms, a system of rewards and punishment derived from a student’s behavior and choices. At ALA, we implement positive peer culture as the primary model of our therapeutic environment. Additionally, we do not practice a traditional clinical approach with our students but instead initiate a model referred to as Milieu Therapy. This simply means that, rather than sitting in an office with a clinician, the environment itself serves as the primary mode of counseling. This is based on earning the right to speak into a teen’s life based on trust and therapeutic rapport established through relationship. Each of our Life Coaches and therapists works directly on the floor with students and participates in their daily activities. We do, however, recognize the value of traditional methods so, in addition to Milieu Therapy, Abundant Life Academy also offers individual therapy, various topical group therapies, equine therapy, and pastoral counseling as determined by our therapeutic team.

Our purpose is to restore students to a life of power, purpose, and potential in Jesus Christ. Our purpose is to introduce, or re-introduce, our students to the Holy Spirit. Abundant Life Academy is designed for the gifted, yet unmotivated student who is fixated on feeding his/her fleshly desires. Essentially, we revive the academic and spiritual hope that was once great in your now struggling child by restoring his/her relationship with God. What has been dimmed due to numerous poor choices and harmful friends can be restored through a reconnection with Jesus; through prayer, worship, and a renewed relationship with the Son of God immature kids are revived. We don't need to tell you that your child is lost, and in need of truth… however, let us show you a future for your child that is in alignment and harmony with God's purpose and plan for their life.

Your precious child does have a destiny in Christ,… For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for calamity, to give you a future, and a hope -  Jeremiah 29:11
 



Abundant Life Academy is among Christian boarding schools with residential therapy and behavioral therapy for troubled teen girls and boys with teen counseling for girls and boys to improve behavior of teenagers struggling with anger, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), attention deficit, attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), substance abuse, depression, reactive attachment disorder (RAD), intermittent explosive disorder (IED), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, self-harm, or rebellion.

THERAPEUTIC BOARDING SCHOOLS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.

Abundant Life Academy provides troubled teens with teen counseling for girls and boys and adolescent therapy. Our Christian boarding schools serve girls an boys from in Texas, in Utah, in California, in Oregon and in Washington State in 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 in Arkansas, in Kentucky, in Tennessee, in Missouri, in Louisiana, and in Mississippi, in Michigan, in Ohio, in Indiana and in Illinois and in the northern states in Montana, in North Dakota, in Minnesota, and in Idaho in the north, and along the east coast from in Georgia to in Florida, in Virginia, in New York, in North Carolina, in Pennsylvania, and in New Jersey.