ADVENTURE THERAPY GROUPS

Engage your clients with innovative, impactful, and unique team building experiences designed to create opportunities for deeper clinical processing and practice coping skills, build trust & confidence and teamwork for improved interpersonal effectiveness. From extraordinary trust-building & bonding experiences to content-rich therapy groups, your adventure therapy programming will be custom designed with your desired results in mind.

Benefits of Adventure Therapy

Adventure-Based Therapy is applicable for many different ages and mental health challenges.

Individuals of all ages can benefit from Adventure Therapy. Moreover, it is proven to be an effective tool for overcoming a wide range of mental health challenges. As a result, our therapy offers ways to care for mental illness for people recovering from eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, and teen substance abuse.

Additionally, it is a powerful anxiety and depression treatment approach. It can also help those who are working to come to terms with a personal loss. As well, Adventure Therapy can add an exciting and productive element to family or relationship therapy. Adventure Therapy can even be beneficial in schizophrenia treatment.

It allows individuals to experience the therapeutic properties of nature.

Spending time in nature through outdoor therapy can improve mental health in a number of ways. For one, time outdoors has been shown to decrease levels of stress, depression, and anxiety. Moreover, being outside in nature is proven to reduce stress by lowering the stress-associated chemical cortisol. Additionally, being surrounded by nature can inspire newfound tranquility and positivity.

Research has found that experiencing awe, such as one might feel while immersed in a lush forest or surveying a scenic ocean, can encourage more generous, positive social behaviors. It also takes us out of our own heads, helping us focus us on something bigger than ourselves.

Participants take part in engaging, real-world experiences.

Adventure Therapy can help individuals make strides in the recovery process by reframing the entire therapy experience, outside the context of mental health facilities. Rather than reflecting on their habits, personalities, tendencies, and triggers in an abstract way, our patients take part in goal-based activities. Such activities often provide a window into their unique mental traits and challenges.

Adventure Therapy also promotes emotional healing by removing individuals from the habits that they may use to avoid confronting personal challenges. Additionally, they are removed from the environmental factors that may be contributing to their mental health issues.

In treatment, individuals work together to overcome a wide variety of obstacles. As they encounter opportunities to explore their own strengths and weaknesses, clients learn to take calculated risks, and push their limits in a safe and supportive environment.

Adventure Therapy provides ample opportunities for personal development.

Therapy provides participants with ways to better understand their thought processes, behaviors, and coping strategies. Often, an individual’s approach to solving problems in therapy will mirror the coping strategies they employ in other settings. This awareness can provide helpful insight to both individuals and their mental health practitioners.

For clients, Adventure Therapy offers an opportunity to take a more active role in their mental health treatment. This can help them feel a greater sense of empowerment, self-awareness, and responsibility.

Adventure Therapy is also effective at encouraging an improved understanding of risks and consequences; a more optimistic outlook; and a greater willingness to confront challenges and step outside one’s comfort zone.

Participants hone their interpersonal skills.

During Adventure Therapy groups, individuals take part in group activities designed to improve emotional intelligence. By supporting one another in pursuit of shared goals, participants improve their ability to communicate, give and receive feedback, and respect personal boundaries—among other important social skills.

Therapy gives clients a chance to focus on connecting with others in a supportive and distraction-free environment. This might mean connecting with other clients and/or with the Adventure Therapist leading the experience.

It provides the opportunity to be physically active.

We all know that exercise is vital for physical health. However, regular exercise also turns out to be an effective therapy for mental health. Adventure Therapy prompts participants to be physically active.

Therefore, exercise improves well-being and positive outlook by impacting serotonin levels. In addition, it can even be as effective as antidepressants. Hence, the findings prove the power of exercise for mental illness treatment.

Adventure-Based Therapy encourages self-reflection.

Adventure therapy provides real-world activities for clients to engage in and relate to past experiences. Therefore, it’s easier for clients to reflect on their mental health challenges.

Additional benefits

A decrease in symptoms of anxiety and depression

Increased self-efficacy

Improved executive functioning

Improved interpersonal skills

Identity development

Improved grit

Trauma resilience

Learning to self-advocate for needs

Accurate clinical assessments

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