Speaker Talk: Getting to the Roots Issues: How Immersion in Wilderness Creates Lasting Results

This presentation takes a unique look at wilderness therapy through a traumatic stress response lens. We will discuss the role of adolescent and emerging adult stress and how it affects the healing journey when maintained in a healthy treatment scenario. Steve will overview some critical variables of successfully reducing stress, including transport experiences, field operations processes, therapeutic modalities like Brainspotting/HeartMath that reduce stress physiology and support through staffing training/cultures. In addition, Steve will discuss the parent’s role in integrating stressful treatment experiences and how parents can positively affect child stress as a whole.