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Should I Pull My Child Out of School For Treatment?

Is it Time for Therapy?

What you’re doing, if you decide that outdoor therapy is the answer to your child’s struggle, is making a sacrifice to give your kid the best shot at a happy and productive future.

When is Wilderness Therapy Right for Someone Who is Struggling?

The Perks of a Wilderness Classroom

Second Nature is the first wilderness program that is accredited as a private school and offers a unique opportunity for our students to receive academic credits while examining their own issues and problematic behavior in the wilderness.

Diversity at Second Nature

A Typical Day in Wilderness Therapy [Infographic]

What does a typical day in wilderness therapy look like? Read more to find out.

A Child is in Wilderness Therapy, What Do Parents Do

Parents can suddenly question how their child, once “normal” got to the point of needing such a high degree of emotional and behavioral support.

Wilderness Therapy and the Problems it Addresses

Wilderness therapy helps teens to identify triggers for bad behavior at the moment so that they can recognize immediately modifying their behavior.

Second Nature’s check-in about the Black Lives Matter movement

Girls in the Woods

I think there is a hesitancy in wanting to send your daughter to the woods. Surviving in rugged conditions and backpacking between 2-8 miles a day with 30-45 lbs, for whatever reason, sounds like a far more intense ordeal for teenage girls than teenage boys.

Is Wilderness Therapy Right For Your Teen?

Teen years are the years of massive growth in all areas because this is a critical period of brain development and a time where the individual is truly defined. With this development comes an enhanced desire to explore and to test limits.

Why Wilderness Therapy is Effective

A look into the healing good that combining nature and solid therapeutic techniques can accomplish.