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Is Aspiro the Right Program for My Child?

Parents looking for wilderness therapy reviews are often searching for trust, hope, and confidence that a treatment program is right for their child. Our wilderness adventure therapy model has helped heal thousands of families over the years. With over 15 years of research, we KNOW that wilderness therapy can help your family.

However, no statistic or data point is as powerful as the words of our clients themselves. Please take a look at the videos and reviews families have shared below. If you would like to speak directly with our alumni about their experience at Aspiro, please contact our admissions team. We’ll happily connect you with families who have recently completed our program.

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Aspiro literally saved my child--and our family! The therapists, guides, coaches, and all staff are true professionals in their fields and are caring, yet firm. The program is organized and clear. Communication with parents is exceptional in terms of the parent portal and direct calls. My child was a particularly challenging case, apparently even by Aspiro standards. Aspiro stuck with him and helped him see what he needed to do. Once he turned the corner, he got it and it changed his life because of the program itself and specifically due to the connection his therapist made with him. He actually still thanks me for making the tough decision to send him to Aspiro.

Aspiro gets 10 stars! The decision to send a child to a wilderness program is not an easy one. Everyone we dealt with at Aspiro was supportive and communicative throughout our time. We soon realized that the Aspiro program is a team effort. They run a great weekly parent webinar and we were able to work on creating healthier parenting skills. We were able to watch the process of self-awareness and ownership on our child’s part unfold. Our child has learned to take responsibility for herself and her actions, to communicate and be vulnerable with us, her peers and therapist. She is independent and self-reliant in a way we never would have thought possible. She went in a shut down, broken soul and came out glowing, smiling and physically healthy.

It has been almost 3 years since my daughter completed her time in the Aspiro wilderness program. It was an intervention that brought my daughter back, and set the stage for a successful transition to a therapeutic boarding school where she has thrived as a result. Both she and I attribute her level of success to the incredible ability of her therapist to match the most appropriate therapeutic intervention to the child, and at the right moment. I am forever grateful!

When my 15 year old son experienced a complete turn around I became a true believer in wilderness therapy. Aspiro knows exactly what they are doing. Let them get into the drivers seat. Engage in the program openly. My son went from angry, depressed and unaccepting of his challenges to happy, and motivated to continue working on his social skills. Our son’s therapist was simply phenomenal.

“Aspiro gave us our son back. Our son grew. Our son changed. Our son learned. He has strength, courage, confidence, wisdom, empathy, and gratitude. It all began with the call to Aspiro.”

I attended aspiro a year and a half ago. After countless clinical therapy approaches in treatment centers, nature guided me in a whole new way. I would never be where I am today without that experience. Send your child here!

Sending our son to Aspiro was one of the most difficult decisions we have had to make as parents. That being said, from admissions to discharge, the staff was knowledgeable, available and supportive. In addition our son's therapist was amazing both at developing a rapport quickly with our son and guiding us through this challenging time.

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“It was a very difficult decision to send our son to Aspiro, but it is the best decision we could have possibly made for our son. When we sent him there he was suicidal, depressed, and refusing to go to school. When he graduated, he had made tremendous progress. We can't thank the Aspiro team enough for what they've done for him!”

Debbie R.

Aspiro Parent, Georgia

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Aspiro was a wonderful experience for our family. Our son began to make changes to become his true person and the person that he wants to be. There is nothing that I would change about Aspiro. Every encounter I had with every person was pleasant and easy. The staff is incredibly knowledgeable and kind. ‘Thank you’ does not express how grateful we are for Aspiro.

M. Coker Choplin

Aspiro Parent, South Carolina

We are thankful to our therapist, as well as the field guides, for their interactions with our family. Our therapist made each person in our family examine themselves, and that made a huge difference in our lives. Our son really identified with the field guides and learned a lot of positive skills from them. Aspiro really helped us lay a foundation that we have continued to build on.

The Hoffman’s

Aspiro Parents, South Carolina

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Aspiro gave our son a choice. He can now put thought into how he reacts or responds to situations. He can’t always control his mood, but he can face it more realistically.

Anonymous

Aspiro Parent

The Aspiro Program was a great experience for both our child and us, his parents, because the family therapy component was extremely helpful. So was the parent seminar.

The Hummel & Kraus Family

Aspiro Parents, Maine

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Thank you all for what you do. The Family Seminar was a very important part of the experience and it was very well done. I cannot say enough about the care our therapist and all of the staff showed to our family. I will gladly continue to be a reference for Aspiro.

H. Weber

Aspiro Parent, Illinois

“I just cannot imagine where we would be without Aspiro. The experience placed our family on proper footing again and allowed the healing to begin.”

Anonymous

Aspiro Parent

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Wonderful therapists! Great experience for my son.

C. Stanford

Aspiro Parent, Florida

“Our 16-year-old daughter was depressed, anxious, suicidal, and had recently been diagnosed with ASD. We were in desperate need of a miracle. The team at Aspiro made our lives whole again. My daughter THRIVED at Aspiro and made gains we never thought possible. My only regret is that we did not send her sooner. Aspiro gave my family hope again.”

Christina M.

Aspiro Parent, Florida

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While you’re there, it is hard and pushes you to do things you never knew you were capable of. It is uncomfortable and genuinely hard work but it is healing and humbling. I will recommend this place and talk highly of it for the rest of my life!

F. Taylor

Aspiro Student, California

When we sent our son to Aspiro, as parents we were terrified. What on earth had we done? Thankfully, we couldn’t have been happier with Aspiro. Every contact with anyone at Aspiro was excellent. The parent seminar was wonderful, well organized and thought out with exercises that we all did as a family. A lot of it was fun, and we could use and understand the principles that we had been reading about in the books that were recommended. The most important thing of all, however, was that our son came home from Aspiro about two months ago. He really wanted to come back home and we decided to give him that chance. As it turned out, after some initial anxieties about starting school, he was able to get back into the flow. He has been back at school now for about three months and is coping very well indeed. He is even doing AP history, which he really wanted to do but that we were particularly worried about in school. His grades are good, his friendships are still on track, and most of all, he has his sense of humor back. I would say that not only did we get our son back, we got back a son who is truly thriving. Since he got back from Aspiro, he has gone at least twice to a bouldering class close to where we live. Thank you, thank you, thank you Aspiro for everything you did to bring our son back to us.

C. Molenda

Aspiro Parent, Washington

It’s a fantastic programme in every sense and I’m not sure where things would be today had we not sent our daughter to Aspiro. It has been a life saver for our whole family and as parents their support has helped us to recalibrate how we do things.

B. Sibbald

Aspiro Parent, United Kingdom

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