Sometimes it can be hard to know what level of care you or a loved one needs when life isn't working. We at Gateways to Transformation can help - we deal with all levels of concern from burnout to trauma, from failure to launch to multiple personality disorders and our therapists can help you choose the right program.
Gateways to Transformation offers a combination long term young adult transitional living program. This program includes an intensive outpatient phase with transitional living for three to six months and when ready, a step-down to our Quest Gap Year Program. The Quest Gap Year Program has much more experiential and therapeutic mentoring, as opposed to direct therapy sessions, to accelerate a participants movement forward both personally and vocationally. The gap year program is set up in three-month segments and can be continued for up to a year, if needed, with clients continuing to live onsite in semiprivate rooms.
The clients in the first half of this customizable program live onsite and work in therapy sessions 20 hours a week to help alleviate any unhealthy mental health and coping mechanism. This moves clients toward healthier alternatives: developing supportive life skills, community integration, career planning for eventual employment, or a school path to help young adults learn to live successfully on their own.
The focus of the two pieces of this complete young adult transitional program is to address level two and one of the levels of concern addressed in the “Failure to Launch Syndrome Paper.” You can find that paper here.
We welcome all male or female identifying and gender non-conforming persons into this program.
Our program is situated on our forty-acre retreat center on the western slope in Colorado at 7000 ft at the edge of the Rocky Mountains. Links to our retreat center and different parts of our campus are on our website and at this link on Youtube.
The first segment of the program is mental health therapy and usually can be resubmitted to insurance for reimbursement. Check your insurance company to verify. Gateways can give company info to submit for benefit check and is run by a Colorado licensed psychological counselor.
The first three to six month intensive part of our young adult transitional living program and includes twenty hours of therapy sessions weekly addressing the following areas:
- Structured environment- emphasizing healthy patterns and techniques to help clients on their journey toward success.
- To help make positive choices and benefit mind body spirit well-being.
- Customized individual and group psych process work as needed by each client.
- Neuroscience trauma therapy skills groups
- Risk and growth sessions
- Emotional intelligence sessions
- Failure to launch sessions
- Life skills sessions
- Executive function sessions
- Ecotherapy sessions – reconnection with nature, attachment issues and patterns addressed
- Self-esteem and self-compassion sessions
- Equine assisted psychotherapy sessions
Wellness sessions with focus on how to be well and how that affects everything else in your life we start with “How to be Well – the 6 keys to a Happy and Healthy Life.” Frank Lipman, MD
- Healthy organic lifestyle diet
- Sleep patterns
- Protect your body from damage
- Move your body - Somatic movement sessions, dance, yoga, wilderness hikes, mind/body walks etc.
- Unwind - Caring for your mind body connection
- Connect with nature, your four and two legged friends, and other humans
Vocational sessions
- GED online work to finish high school
- Online college courses are allowed as part of a program if chosen, this is at parent or client cost.
Transitional living semiprivate rooms onsite in one of three houses on campus.
Psychiatric medication management is optional and is at additional cost but is available if requested.
Potential companion/service dog program available at additional cost. More information.
The Quest - Gap Year Program
When each client is ready to move to the next level of the young adult transitional program, they land in the Quest Gap Year Program. This component is considered therapeutic but is not therapy. Licensed therapists and life coaches mentor each individual as they move towards their successful life path.
This segment is much more experiential and rewarding, letting clients experience moving into young adulthood successfully. This success can take many paths whether that is in college, vocational programs, or work in a mentored therapeutic setting. Clients practice new life skills in many different ways, on a daily basis to gain practical experience.
The Quest is available to clients when our therapists and life coaches feel that a client is now at the level one area of concern in the failure to launch syndrome paper.
The Quest is also available as a stand-alone gap year program for participants who do not need the higher level of therapy that comprises the first part of the long-term transitional living program. The Quest is open to participants joining this program if they were already at level one of concern as opposed to coming in at level two.
We look forward to connecting and helping you make a good choice for you or your loved one’s care in these challenging times.
At Gateways to Transformation we are familiar with the challenges facing young adults who struggling to thrive. The full program from Therapy into the Quest Gap Year program was born from the desire to help young adults transition into adult living.
We embrace the diversity of human expression, gender expression and racial, spiritual and cultural identity.
We are a substance and alcohol and free facility. Weapons are not allowed on the property at any time.
Are You Ready for a Transformation?
For teens and young adults, 18 and over
Call 303-859-7385 or contact for more information.