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In Sessions
Individual therapy with licensed clinicians, group therapy, and DBT when a falling-out has taken over the week. Trauma work and CBT are chosen for the girl in front of us.
Residential Treatment For Teenage Girls
A girls-only house in Canyon Lake for ages 12-17. Friendships, meals, and the evening hours are where most of the work happens, which is exactly why one hour a week was not enough.
- 30-90 days
- Ages 12-17
- 24/7
What this is
A House Built Around How Girls Actually Struggle
This is a live-in, girls-only house on the Canyon Lake campus. What we usually treat here is relational: a friend group that became her entire world, constant comparison, a falling-out that ruins a whole week, or self-harm used to make a feeling stop. Residential care belongs here when the evening undoes whatever the therapy hour accomplished, and not when a psychiatric hospital is the honest answer.
When this level of care fits
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The Evening Undoes The Therapy Hour
She can finish a session and still fall apart at nine at night. The thoughts do not stop when outpatient therapy ends for the week.
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The Friend Group Is The Whole Year
School is a social map more than a classroom. When that map breaks, her grades go with it, and she needs treatment and school in the same building.
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Self-Harm You Cannot Supervise
Hurting herself, or distress the bathroom door cannot contain. Parents taking shifts through the night is not a level of care.
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Constant Comparison
A small house of girls can either feed that or interrupt it. Our group size, staffing, and group therapy are the intervention, not a lecture about being kind to each other.
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A Parent Who Became The Night Watch
You sleep by her door and check her phone. Dropping her off is not participation. Parents stay in family therapy and practice the first weekend before it is real.
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When We Are Not The Right Place
Medical instability from an eating disorder, a locked unit, or something we cannot treat. Aaron Earnest and the admissions team will name the right next call.
Daily life
Where The Week Actually Happens
Therapy sessions, the kitchen table, and the house itself. The same work happens in all three places, for girls who need care that lasts past bedtime.
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With Family
Whoever has been keeping watch, often a mother, sits in family therapy, coaching, and a rehearsed weekend. The kitchen table is part of the treatment, not a drop-off point.
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In The House
Staffed overnight hours, meals that are part of the clinical day, and a small group of girls practicing real skills. Isolation and comparison are the two things we do not allow to take hold.
Our approach
What Is In The Treatment Plan
Chosen for your daughter and this level of care, not a list assembled because the house is all girls. A case manager keeps the plan visible to the whole team.
- Core of the plan
DBT In The Moment It Happens
DBT skills get used in the hour a text, a look, or a meal sets her off, rather than taught in a weekly class and hoped for at ten at night.
Staff Awake Through The Night
The hardest thoughts arrive after lights out. Staff stay awake so the treatment does not stop at bedtime and she is never alone with them.
School Alongside Treatment
Her own curriculum and tutoring run in a room that can handle a difficult morning, so her education does not pause for the length of the stay.
Family As The Other Half
The pattern at home is usually a large part of the work. Family therapy and a weekend that functions as homework keep you and the treatment team aligned.
- When needed
An Honest No On The First Call
Medical instability, a hospital, or something we cannot safely treat. We will say so while reviewing your insurance with you.
Your part
The Household Has To Change Too
Residential treatment fails when the girl changes and her home does not. Family participation is the other half of this stay, not a Sunday visiting slot.
Call me when she's herself again.
Being In The Sessions
Family therapy every other week, plus coaching on supervision, meals, and phone use. We will not attempt this work in a teen-only hour.
The girls will sort it out.
Staying Involved Throughout
A girls-only house is not a reason for parents to step back. She still needs a parent who can hold a limit and put a plate on the table.
We'll see how Sunday goes.
Practicing The First Weekend
The meal, the phone, and the friend who texts all get practiced here before discharge rather than improvised at home.
Academics
Keeping The School Year Alive
A friend group falling apart can pull a girl out of school for months. Accredited classes run here every weekday, using her own district's curriculum.
Her Own Curriculum
Our accredited on-site school uses work from her home district rather than a generic packet, so her credits and her place in class stay hers.
Small Classes By Design
Tutoring runs alongside the clinical day, so credits keep accumulating while she does the harder work in the house.
Practicing The Return To Campus
We walk through the first hallway, the first lunch period, and the friend who will be waiting at her locker, so going back is not overwhelming.
Send the transcript, the current schedule, and any IEP or 504.
Length of stay
30
days in residence, by progress
Most stays run one to three months. We do not set a discharge date before the work is genuinely done.
90
How Long A Stay Takes
Stays usually run one to three months, based on progress rather than a set package. The first two weeks are for safety, regular meals, and settling into a peer group. Discharge waits on real progress and a next treatment team, which can be our outpatient or virtual IOP program on this campus.
- The first two weeks are for safety, meals she will actually eat, and a peer group that can hold her, not a forced breakthrough.
- Most girls finish in one to three months. Some stay longer, because we do not discharge on a schedule.
- Aftercare is part of the stay: a written plan, a next treatment team, and check-ins at 30, 60, and 90 days.
When to call
Do Not Wait For A Crisis.
If you cannot safely supervise the nights, or her friendships and her self-harm have taken over the week, call us. Aaron Earnest and the admissions team will be honest about whether this house is the right level of care. We are Joint Commission accredited. Anxiety and self-harm are frequently treated during the same stay. Psychiatry and medication management are available when the clinical team recommends them.