We are a residential treatment center and boarding school for teenage girls. We empower your daughter with the same skills we would want our own daughters to have to heal from life's traumas.
We provide her with residential treatment and advanced academics in a comfortable, home-like environment. Our expert therapists facilitate healing through an emphatic focus on the family, allowing your daughter and family to find peace with the past and move forward as healthy, connected individuals.
New Haven Alumni Christy
"I thank New Haven for teaching how to manage all these strong feelings. How to accept what I can't control. New Haven taught me how to cope with the best and the worst."
Goldie
"I look back and see the past as merely steppingstones to the bright future ahead."
Goldie - Alumni Student - 2010
"I didn't leave a perfect child, but I did leave more open to the process of investigating myself. It saved my life."
Erica - Alumni Student - 2008
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Residential Treatment Center and Boarding School for Teenage Girls
At New Haven, we base our treatment decisions on a simple question: What would I want for my daughter? We know that underneath her struggles – whether, with depression, anxiety, traumatic stress, substance abuse, an eating disorder, or another challenging emotional issue – your daughter is still there, waiting to be discovered, loved back to wholeness, and reunited with her family.
After twenty years of working together, our treatment team is one of the most experienced in the field of girls' adolescent treatment. We know from experience that girls struggling with complex emotional and behavioral issues need access to a variety of proven therapies. Experience has also taught us that even the most clinically sophisticated approaches to treatment are only effective if those delivering them come from a place of connection, compassion, and hope.
Clinical excellence. The warmth and love of a home away from home. That's what we'd want for our daughters. So that's what we provide for yours.
Who We Treat
New Haven empowers adolescent girls, ages 14-18, with the skills to overcome life’s traumas. The word that comes to mind when describing the girls who come to New Haven, is powerful. Your daughter’s among the leaders of tomorrow. She is intelligent and capable. Unfortunately, you know too well what happens when your daughter uses her capabilities to sneak out of the house to meet “friends.” And you know how it feels when she uses her intelligence to make you feel like an inadequate parent. In these moments, your daughter is reacting from the emotional wounds she carries.
Your daughter’s treatment program should be specifically designed to heal those wounds. We provide all-girls residential treatment in a safe, comforting, home-like environment. Our intensive family program and AP academics ensure that your daughter returns home healed, connected to your family, and prepared for the rest of her life.
What We Treat
We specialize in complex issues such as traumatic stress, family problems, relationship issues, depression, anxiety, self-harm, suicidal idealization, attachment, eating disorders, substance abuse, and personality disorders. Most of the students we work with are struggling with two or more of these challenges.
Why Choose New Haven
Choosing the right treatment program for your daughter is one of the most difficult decisions you’ll make as a parent. Read more about our trauma-informed care, therapy modalities, academics, outcome data, and accreditation to see if we’re the best fit for your family.
The Journey to New Haven
Everyone’s path to New Haven looks a little different. Some families have been through several different treatment programs, while others are looking for their first placement. No matter where you are in the journey, we look forward to helping you heal your family.
Testimonials
Don't just take our word for it.
“It is true to say that I’ve changed, but it goes so much deeper than that- I have remembered who I am - I have remembered my truest self, and I never would have thought it, but I LOVE WHO THAT IS.”
“Thank God there is a place like New Haven and that there are people so dedicated to healing the broken hearted. You gave us comfort in a time of great need, and hope when there was very little. You told us you would take care of our loved one and you did.”
“You saved my life. (I know what you are probably thinking, because I can picture you saying it…,”I didn’t save your life, you saved your life.”) That is true, but you know what? I wouldn’t have, not for all the money in the world, until you came along.”
“With a few words, carefully chosen and carefully placed, you helped our marriage, and helped bring our family from despair to happiness.”
Resources
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