Kira Roerig, a Family Therapist at Anasazi Foundation, talks about wilderness therapy and why it is so effective at helping individuals heal.
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TRANSCRIPT of Video:
At Anasazi, we use a wilderness therapy approach where, basically, nature is sort of one of the “teachers,” one of the main teachers of the children who come through the program.
So, one of the reasons that we feel like wilderness therapy is so effective is because we often say that it’s an opportunity to disconnect. It’s a chance for kids to disconnect from their friends back home that might be, kind of a challenge, or an opportunity to disconnect from social media, or video games, or pornography—whatever is going on in their lives that’s challenging—and then, but really, more than just an opportunity to disconnect, it’s an opportunity to reconnect.
So, they get to go out in the wilderness and reconnect with their families, and reconnect with themselves, and reconnect with nature and maybe even reconnect with a Creator, if that’s something that’s important to them.
