Solstice East, a new Solstice expansion located in Asheville, North Carolina, is scheduled to open doors on October 1, 2012. Dr. Kyle Gillett, as Executive Director, leads the creation of this new expansion-maintaining the full integrity of the Solstice program.
Applications for admission are being accepted immediately.
Solstice East will share 25 acres of property with highly esteemed Asheville Academy for Girls-creating a clinically sophisticated campus upon which the needs of girls from latency through young adulthood will be met. Advantages to sharing a campus and the associated resources are vast-with each program experiencing greater depth to its clinical, residential and recreational programming. Each program will maintain focus on its respective strengths-remaining separate entities with independent programmatics-while entering into a powerful relationship allowing for the shared use of targeted resources.
According to Dr. Gillett, "There is and has been great need in the east for RTC services. To date, many east coast families have had to send their daughters on a trek west to meet such needs. We believe that these families will be very pleased to have a solid option that is much closer to home. We are thrilled to work side-by-side with the great team at Asheville Academy for Girls to provide this service."
Executive director of Asheville Academy for Girls, Bryan Tomes, states: "Anyone who visits Asheville Academy's campus is immediately stunned by its beauty, size, and safe feeling. After a tour of the facilities, most cannot believe that we didn't design and build it to our specifications, as it so perfectly suits our needs and population. Yet we only utilize it in percentages-being a small, relationship driven school. Having Solstice join us brings two significant benefits: the ability to more fully utilize our world-class facility, and to join with a group of like-minded, driven, passionate folks that we can learn from and grow with. Simply, I am stoked!"
A summary of Solstice East as described by its founders:
Utilizing a combination of cognitive-behavioral, family systems and experiential theories, Solstice East offers a small, clinically intensive program. Our relationship-based approach emphasizes high levels of family intervention, emotional safety, healthy boundaries, and a phase program based on the archetypal hero's journey, creating an environment conducive to healing from trauma of all varieties (i.e., loss, abuse, PTSD, bullying, and other traumatic experiences). Because many trauma survivors also suffer from comorbid anxiety, mood disorders, low self-esteem, addictions and other unhealthy coping mechanisms, Solstice East provides state-of-the art treatment for all of these issues.
Each week our students receive 3 hours of individual/family therapy and another 15+ hours of group therapy and experiential interventions (including equine therapy, DBT, and other specialty groups)-all guided by a multidisciplinary treatment team made up of our masters and Ph.D. level therapists; psychiatrist; nursing, academic, and residential staff; and the student's parent(s). In addition, students struggling with addictions or compulsive behaviors of any type participate in our gender-specific addictions program, which includes individual, family, and group intervention with a LSAC.
Solstice East emphasizes physical fitness and nutrition-including daily cardiovascular workouts; weight training; participation in local fitness events; yoga and Zumba; as well as healthy home-cooked food and nutrition classes. Academic classes are taught in a conventional classroom setting by certified secondary education and special education teachers.
Implementing all of the aforementioned services in an owner-operated setting, Solstice East facilitates each student's journey away from being a victim of her traumatic experiences towards becoming the hero of her own life story.
Please direct all inquiries to Dr. Kyle Gillett.
Solstice RTCis a clinically sophisticated residential treatment center for girls between the ages of 14 and 18.