Family Intensives are designed for families that desire or need a significant intervention in how their family is functioning. We will help your family identify unhealthy patterns of interaction and improve contact, connection, trust, and communication between family members. Family Intensives are typically 1 - 3 days in length and co-facilitated by Duey Freeman, MA LPC and Joan Rieger, MA LPC.

Families that may benefit from participating in a Family Intensive are:

1. Families who have a child or adolescent in need of a significant intervention in order to avoid longer term consequences or out of home placement such as residential treatment or wilderness therapy programs.
2. Families with unique family dynamics such as adopted, foster, or special needs children, significant grief or loss, divorced or blended families, drugs or alcohol issues, etc.
3. Families having difficulty connecting, communicating, or unable to resolve conflict and desire deeper, more meaningful relationships with each other.

Horses live in herds with a defined hierarchy, roles and responsibilities, relationships and alliances, unique personalities, emotions, and boundaries very similar to our own family systems. Interacting with the horses will help you explore your own family system.

When problems occur within a family, it is important to examine the problem as a symptom of a larger systemic issue. How one person behaves affects every other relationship in the family. Change cannot occur in isolation if the change is to endure over time. In family therapy, dynamics are explored to create change, restore balance, harmonize relationships, set proper boundaries, develop skills, and improve the overall level of communication, contact, and connection within the family.

Family Intensive Cost:
$1500 per day - includes horse rental fee and lunches.