May and Louise attended the Calo Programs Healing Trauma Conference entitled: Toxic Shame and the Silence of Joy May 21-23, 2018 at Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. Calo has always been a leader in therapy related to adoption and developmental trauma. In the last few years, they have acquired an ownership position in New Visions Wilderness, with locations currently … Read More
Western Connecticut Boarding Schools Tour
April 16-19, 2018 Louise and May went on a whirlwind tour of 14 different boarding schools with about 12 other educational consultants. We rode on school buses all week that somehow the kids at schools call “toaster buses” and stayed at the Litchfield Inn. The tour was extremely well organized but incredibly “dense” in terms of information and schools visited. … Read More
Opioid Epidemic
As I opened up the USA Today paper this morning, October 17, 2017, the snapshot statistic was this: Fatal overdoses related to heroin use: 533% from 2,089 in 2002 to 13,219 in 2016, quoted from the National Institute on Drug Abuse via CNN. As I open up the Skimm, an email news source, the lead story is about hundreds of … Read More
The Gift of Boarding School…Sisters for Life!
This weekend, I met a young girl who was leaving for boarding school, Asheville School, the next day. She had all of her “stuff” piled up in her room but was leaving home early the next morning so she could set up her side of the room before her roommate arrived. Boy could I relate to that idea after spending … Read More
Louise Presents with Karyn at NATSAP
Louise really enjoyed speaking at NATSAP in October with Karyn Kaminski. Their presentation was called “I Just Can’t Fix Your Kid.” Below is the PowerPoint for you to review. What do you think? without-video-i-cant-just-fix-your-kid-se-natsap-2016
Parent Enmeshment, Boarding School, and a Kid with Significant ADHD
So many of the clients we see at the Price Group are what we call ENMESHED with at least one of their parents! One of my clients, a very bright, very verbal young man, is struggling at his current boarding school. He has been diagnosed with ADHD and has real trouble completing most anything on time, especially homework! A typical … Read More
SC Drug Rings Linked to Campus Fraternities
How a College Drug Ring Hid in Plain Sight: After getting this article, written by the Post and Courier in Charleston, SC from a client whose young adult son struggles with addiction, I became furious! Having gone to conferences for ARHE (The Association for Recovery in Higher Education) for the past three years, and working as an therapeutic educational consultant … Read More
Richard Rohr and Twelve Steps
Like probably most of you reading this blog, I have experienced the effects of addiction and mental illness in my own family…this is more the “rule” than the exception. As I became a therapeutic educational consultant and began to work with students and their family systems with addiction and substance abuse issues, I began a steep learning curve to understand … Read More
Therapy in the Woods
At The Price Group, we have relationships and experiences with many different wilderness models and therapeutic approaches. Therapists who tell you “wilderness therapy is for “oppositional defiant” children and that it seeks to “break down” a person have no clear knowledge or experience with the outstanding work being done in wilderness. Wilderness settings are by licensed professionals in early childhood trauma, anxiety, … Read More
Making Sure Aftercare is not an “Afterthought”
IECA National Conference in Boston May 4-7, 2016 One of the breakout sessions I attended at a recent conference was about transition from a therapeutic program to a step down program. This is a topic that is very near and dear to my heart. Why? Prior to becoming a professional educational consultant, I worked in the area of Organizational Development … Read More