Young Adult Transitional Living 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 is much more experiential and therapeutic mentoring, as opposed to direct therapy sessions, to accelerate a participant’s 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.

Our program is situated on our forty-acre permaculture inspired retreat center on the western slope in Colorado at 7000 ft in the mountains.

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 issues and move clients toward healthier alternatives: developing supportive life skills, community integration, career planning eventual employment or school 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: https://gatewaystotransformation.com/failure-to-launch-syndrome-in-the-modern-young-adult-and-the-levels-of-concern/.

We welcome all male or female identifying and gender non-conforming persons into this program.

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 intensive program part of our young adult transitional living program three to six months and includes twenty hours of therapy sessions weekly:

• 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

Wellness sessions 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, 5 Rhythms inspired 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
• Ecotherapy sessions – reconnection with nature, attachment issues and patterns addressed
• Equine assisted psychotherapy sessions
• Self-esteem and self-compassion sessions
• 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. See website under certifications for information on the companion/service dog program.

When each client is ready progress to the next level of the young adult transitional program, they move into the Quest Gap Year Program.

This program is in three-month segments and can be continued for up to a year as needed. This component is considered therapeutic but is not therapy. Licensed therapists and life coaches’ mentor each individual as they move towards what each person wants to do in their life successfully.

This segment is much more experiential, letting clients experience moving into young adulthood successfully, whether that is in college, vocational programs, or work in a mentored therapeutic setting. They will be practicing their 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 in the first part of the long-term transitional living program. It is open to participants joining this program if they were already at level one of concern as opposed to coming in at level two.

The Quest Gap Year segment of the program includes:

• Therapeutic mentoring for each client to work their way through trying and experiencing being treated as a young adult with potential.
• To continue helping make positive choices and benefit mind body spirit well-being.
• Experiential daily practice stepping into new life skills
• Practical life skills and failure to launch mentoring practiced daily
• Life skills continued development, accountability, and direction
• Risk and growth are worked into all segments of this program
• Emotional intelligence practiced daily
• Executive function practiced daily
• Equine assisted psychotherapy learning on the ground sessions and riding if chosen
• Self-esteem and self-compassion practiced daily
• Wellness program emphasized daily continuing from first segment of program
• How to be Well – using and owning the “6 keys to a Happy and Healthy Life.” Frank Lipman, MD
• Ecotherapy includes:
• Wilderness immersion experiencing, animal and equine immersion
• Music and art immersion
• Vocational group sessions
• Shadowing and Volunteering
• Working and chores
• GED skills continued
• College courses online
• Applying for or getting ready to start or return to college
• Transitional living semiprivate rooms onsite in one of three houses on campus.
• Potential companion/service dog program available at additional cost. See website under certifications for information on the companion/service dog program.

We look forward to connecting and helping you make a good choice for you or your loved one’s care in these challenging times.