TREATMENT
There are no two families exactly alike, and similar to our individual personalities, each family holds their own unique collective personality. As you come to the ranch, our goal is to work with your collective family personality and to individualize a treatment experience specifically for you. In fact, part of the process invites your family to participate in an in-depth assessment where you set the goals you would like to accomplish during your stay on the ranch and beyond. Then we will work together to help you accomplish those goals.
There are times when you and your family may need a more intensive experience than a traditional family counseling session at home. If a spouse or child won’t sit through family therapy at home, we can use many activities on the ranch that will both engage everyone and allow issues to be addressed.
Sometimes a family needs a change of context in a neutral setting to break established patterns of interaction and to help boost them into improved relationships. Complications appear in families in a variety of ways and will sometimes manifest in one, specific individual. During the KW Legacy Family Ranch Experience, your entire family is treated as a system. Less focus is placed on individual members and more focus is placed on your family unit as a whole.
The ranch provides a setting where change can begin to occur and where new habits can be formed. Then your family can return to your home environment and put into practice the lessons that were learned on the ranch.
There are times when you and your family may need a more intensive experience than a traditional family counseling session at home. If a spouse or child won’t sit through family therapy at home, we can use many activities on the ranch that will both engage everyone and allow issues to be addressed.
Sometimes a family needs a change of context in a neutral setting to break established patterns of interaction and to help boost them into improved relationships. Complications appear in families in a variety of ways and will sometimes manifest in one, specific individual. During the KW Legacy Family Ranch Experience, your entire family is treated as a system. Less focus is placed on individual members and more focus is placed on your family unit as a whole.
The ranch provides a setting where change can begin to occur and where new habits can be formed. Then your family can return to your home environment and put into practice the lessons that were learned on the ranch.
Treatment Philosophy
A clinical family assessment will be completed by your family prior to and shortly after your arrival. Using this assessment your family will set your own goals for the treatment process. You will be assigned a family therapist for the duration of your time spent on the ranch. Our Master’s Level Therapists will meet with your family for family sessions several times throughout your time on the ranch.
In addition to intensive traditional therapy sessions, KW Legacy Ranch takes a unique approach to your family’s treatment by using the working ranch as an additional therapeutic tool. This approach involves a behavior activation process that helps get your family moving and accomplishing tasks together.
There are several key reasons why the ranch will add significant therapeutic value to your family’s experience.
First, it provides your family an opportunity to work together for a common goal and helps you all become cohesive towards that shared purpose.
Second, it provides an opportunity for your family to participate in activities that are designed to cause some discomfort, thus allowing your therapist to witness genuine family patterns instead of social patterns that are typically on display in a traditional family therapy session. It is through these raw emotions and interactions that true insights will happen and change will begin to take place.
Third, using the ranch as a therapeutic tool provides an effective physical experience for your family to build on as they complete tasks successfully. There is great value in accomplishment, in working together as a unit, and in the effort it takes to achieve a goal. Your family will grow closer together as you work together in real projects on the ranch.
The fourth value the ranch will provide your family is the significance of your interactions with the animals. These interactions can add immense value to the entire therapeutic experience. When family members are placed on horseback and learn to work the cattle, there are many variables that come into play. Added relationships with animals are designed to be incorporated into the original family dynamics and provide incredible therapeutic insight into similar human behaviors such as nurturing, peer group behavior, pressure, communication methods, etc. These opportunities allow you and your personal family therapist to address any issues brought out through your interaction with the animals.
In addition to intensive traditional therapy sessions, KW Legacy Ranch takes a unique approach to your family’s treatment by using the working ranch as an additional therapeutic tool. This approach involves a behavior activation process that helps get your family moving and accomplishing tasks together.
There are several key reasons why the ranch will add significant therapeutic value to your family’s experience.
First, it provides your family an opportunity to work together for a common goal and helps you all become cohesive towards that shared purpose.
Second, it provides an opportunity for your family to participate in activities that are designed to cause some discomfort, thus allowing your therapist to witness genuine family patterns instead of social patterns that are typically on display in a traditional family therapy session. It is through these raw emotions and interactions that true insights will happen and change will begin to take place.
Third, using the ranch as a therapeutic tool provides an effective physical experience for your family to build on as they complete tasks successfully. There is great value in accomplishment, in working together as a unit, and in the effort it takes to achieve a goal. Your family will grow closer together as you work together in real projects on the ranch.
The fourth value the ranch will provide your family is the significance of your interactions with the animals. These interactions can add immense value to the entire therapeutic experience. When family members are placed on horseback and learn to work the cattle, there are many variables that come into play. Added relationships with animals are designed to be incorporated into the original family dynamics and provide incredible therapeutic insight into similar human behaviors such as nurturing, peer group behavior, pressure, communication methods, etc. These opportunities allow you and your personal family therapist to address any issues brought out through your interaction with the animals.