Lone Star Expeditions
Lone Star Expeditions provides wilderness treatment programs for teenagers ages 13-17. This teen treatment center is located near Houston, Texas. Lone Star Expeditions helps adolescents with therapeutic intervention that combines traditional therapy with a wilderness setting to engage students in exploring their character in a safe, but challenging environment.
The Alternative to Boot Camps
Moving to the wilderness is a significant life change. The students are removed from modern distractions here, surrounded by a beautiful Southern Pine Forest, which offers a shade canopy throughout the year. The forested, camp-like surroundings offer teenagers simplified choices to gain insight into their values and accept responsibility for their decisions. The simplicity of the choices available in the outdoors helps them recognize the results of their behavioral choices and encourages them to try different coping skills.
At Lone Star Expeditions, students experience success and develop healthy self-esteem while working to improve family relationships.
Lone Star Expeditions is not a boot camp. Lone Star is a wilderness treatment program with a therapeutic focus on an insight-oriented experience, rather than behavior modification. Their nurturing approach helps students look at personal issues, experience success in a safe setting, and focus on developing healthy family relationships.
Program Highlights
- Masters Level Therapists
- Individualized Treatment Planning
- Focus on Intervention, Assessment, and Transferring of Knowledge
- Flexible Lengths of Stay
- Individual Therapy
- Group Processing
- Weekly Family Treatment Planning Sessions
- Family Expedition Guidebook, mirroring student phases
- Parenting Education Materials
- Clothing, Gear, and Equipment Included
- Substance Abuse Psycho-Educational Groups
- Substance Abuse Assessments
Optional Services: Psychological and Educational Testing
Student Profile
Lone Star Expeditions specializes in helping adolescents ages 13-17 who are experiencing or exhibiting any of the following:
- Family Conflict
- Low Self-Esteem
- Sense of Entitlement
- Manipulation
- Isolation
- Depression
- Substance Use
- Oppositional Defiance
- Attention Deficit
- Learning Differences
- School Failure
- Negative Peer Relationships
Potential Exclusionary Criteria
The program does not work with students who have major mental health thought disorders, serious histories of running away, habitual patterns of violence outside the home, or who are currently demonstrating a willingness to hurt themselves or others. Any student requiring injections or who has a history of using injections may be deemed too high of a risk for a wilderness setting.
Lone Star Expeditions is a member of National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP)
To speak with an Admissions Counselor call toll-free 877-830-7020
