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Deschutes Wilderness Therapy, located in Oregon, is a nationally recognized outdoor behavioral healthcare and trauma-informed wilderness therapy program that provides teens and young adults immediate intervention and intensive mental health treatment. The wilderness experience allows students and their families to have the opportunity to heal their relationships and foster personal growth.

Deschutes Wilderness Therapy (OR) sets the standard in outdoor therapeutic programming. All students are empowered to improve their decision-making skills and build healthy and safe relationships. While working with the individual and the family, students at Deschutes are encouraged to focus on their strengths and use them to launch lasting change. Slowly expanding on each student's emotional tolerance, Deschutes does not support a shock approach.


Located in the Cascade mountain range of central Oregon, students at Deschutes receive highly specialized wilderness therapy. Deschutes has treatments that target three main areas. Centered on stabilizing through the nervous system and body, and not through words, Deschutes primarily focuses on neurological release and somatic stabilization. We teach students to manage the inner world, to change their outer world with emotional literacy and self-regulation training. Finally, the team at Deschutes works to heal relationships through attachment and relational immersion. That model includes adventure and canine therapy. Call us at 866-282-3024 to learn more.

Meet Xela: After receiving a B.A. dual degree in Education and History, Xela served in the Peace Corps for nearly three years in South Africa. It was during this pivotal time when she fully understood her passion for being of service to others. Upon returning to the States, Xela started her work in wilderness therapy as a field instructor, where she spent several years supporting and inviting change in adolescents. Soon after, Xela received her Master’s Degree in Clinical Social Work from Arizona State University. Spanning over a decade, Xela has worked at several wilderness therapy programs and therapeutic boarding schools. Xela has a natural affinity for relationship-based work with adolescents and easily connects and aligns with individuals and families to clarify strengths and issues, build insight, and guide needed changes. She believes that the wilderness setting naturally provides a very meaningful and powerful environment for adolescents to improve their self-worth, sense of belonging, and connection to self and others.

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