Cascade Academy delivers the most specialized long-term anxiety and OCD treatment for adolescent girls available. To date over 70 students and their families have been served. Following treatment students have returned to their homes, their High Schools, Boarding Schools and…
A week ago, a student here at Cascade Academy asked me if we could do Kintsugi in Art Class. I wasn’t familiar with that form of art, so I looked it up. She told me that her therapist told her…
Experts agree that mindfulness improves the quality of life. It increases relaxation, promotes healing, increases immune response, and decreases pain, anxiety, and depression. Cascade Academy focuses on creating a balance in the student’s physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual self. Mindfulness…
Each year as the temperature drops and the leaves change to reveal a colorful tapestry across the Wasatch Back, Cascade Academy works in collaboration with the Forever Young Foundation to raise awareness for adolescent anxiety. This past weekend, bike riding…
Throughout his career as a Hall of Fame Quarterback, Steve Young struggled with severe, and at times debilitating anxiety. He outlines this struggle in his book, My Life Behind the Spiral. Learning to manage and overcome his anxiety with the…
Cascade Academy recently celebrated two years of operations in April of 2022. Since opening during the height of Covid, Cascade Academy has been established as a clinically sophisticated treatment option for adolescent girls struggling with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)…
How many emotions do you think people can label in the moment they are experiencing them? Three? Five? Seven? If you answered three, you would be correct. Most people can only label three emotions as they experience them; anger, sadness,…
“Does therapy work”? This is a reasonable question asked by fans and critics alike. Mental health services tend to be relatively new, and the scientific method is just recently being applied to measure the effectiveness of various interventions. At this…
At Cascade Academy we use a number of treatment models to help our students excel in meeting their goals. Students engage in traditional forms of therapy with individual counseling, family therapy sessions, psycho-educational content media and workbooks and group therapy…