To start things off, I would truly urge the reader to consider what population of individuals has…read morethe most honest experience with Discovery Ranch. Is it the parents, who are only ever presented with what the Ranch wants to present them? Or the ones with lived experience at this ranch? Those who went on even into adulthood, expressing experienced trauma from this place? I don't know, but if you cared about your child, I'd imagine you'd at least want to hear what the latter has to say. I've done my best to move on from this place. However, yesterday, a song came on in the car as my girlfriend and I were driving home from a day-hike in a mountainous state, near Utah. This song was a song I have not listened to since I was on my visitations with my parents, driving through the Provo Canyon on the way back to the ranch. I burst into tears and I was shot back in time to that period of my life. The emotions. the constant background noise in your head of how you just want to go home. You just want to feel the simple freedoms of being unsupervised, that is, supervision to the point of physical restraint and the threat thereof. I attended Discovery Ranch from Feb. 2019 through June of 2020. Before my admission, I had found myself in a whirlwind of attention-seeking behaviors that also included heavy drug use and troubling depressive episodes that often led to suicidal ideation. I had attended another boarding school in Utah for three months before getting expelled for a dramatic altercation involving my drug use and thus, I found myself at DR. I don't blame my parents for resorting to DR. I totally understand that my behavior put them in a position, as my legal guardians and parents, that they had no idea how to address. I do blame DR for preying on the loving parents who don't know what else to do. I do blame DR for their negligence and the drastic disconnect between what they present on their website and what is actually going on. I have scores of experiences that reflect poor quality in the care of other children while I was there. I am more than willing to work with anyone or be in communication with others who are inquiring on those who went here. My life today looks like this: I'm about a month and a half clean from heroin and fentanyl. I've been to drug/alcohol rehabs five times after DR. I'm on methadone and moved far away from home where all this started for me and started anew in a place that brings me peace. I'm optimistic about my future, but I do acknowledge the heavy, heavy pain I felt in this place, and how that pain transformed afterwards, and how it affected my family unit... I could go on and on. I apologize for the informalities and lack of organization throughout this review. Again, I am more than willing to be in contact with anyone who has inquiries on this place. I am also more than willing to connect with anyone else who attended DR and wants to collaborate with shared experiences on how to get DR exposed for the hellscape it is.

Real and quality care for adolescent even boys. I've seen firsthand the amount of thought and…read morepreparation that Discovery Ranch puts into activities, school environments and everyday structure for these boys. The staff is a community of professionals that just want the best for these boys, and they show up every day for them! I recommend this RTC to anyone and everyone with a troubled teen!

The staff are so ungodly rude and ableist. I have Mutism. I am unable to speak. The staff belittled…read moreme for not being able to speak. At one point even took away my communication (any form of writing/paper). On top of this the therapists joked about me being suicidal to staff and each other. Basically treated me like garbage. I was allowed to fully starve myself to the point I required hospitalization. And even THEN it took them a full 2+ hours to get me to a hospital because they wanted me to "cooperate" with them. No fucking way am I going to. Also they strip search you when you first arrive. Taking away ALL privacy. And they joke with each other about your body and how you look. I came here in 2024 and spent a grand 6 days here. And the entire time I was mistreated, neglected, and joked about to all the staff. They also force you to do manual labor to "possibly" earn outside time. And even then it's a MAX of 15 minutes and you are basically put on a leash to be allowed outside. Completely unprofessional facility, absolutely destroyed my mental health/well being. If you are thinking of sending your child here, just know they will forever resent you and rightfully so.

My experience at New Haven Residential Treatment Center fundamentally changed how I understand…read moretrauma, control, and institutional power. While treatment is often uncomfortable and adolescents may resist it, what I encountered at New Haven went far beyond the normal challenges of therapeutic work. New Haven was uniquely damaging. One of the most important concepts at New Haven is the level system, which is presented as a motivational and therapeutic structure. In reality, it functions as a system of control. Advancement through levels dictates whether you are allowed basic autonomy, including personal space. When you are one your first level you are followed by a staff two feet away and even watched in the bathroom. Till this day these moments I remember haunt me. I did not have any physical personal space. Until reaching Level 2, you are not even allowed to return to your room freely. This lack of privacy intensifies distress rather than supporting regulation or healing. The program emphasizes that levels are earned through growth, but in practice they are often arbitrary, inconsistent, and used to enforce compliance rather than encourage genuine progress. The system is marketed as central to treatment, yet its actual function contradicts the therapeutic values the program claims to uphold. Within the first week, residents are required to identify a so-called "core issue," a concept heavily promoted on New Haven's website as a foundation for healing. This process is rushed, poorly supported, and deeply destabilizing. I was pushed to identify my core issue before any trust or safety had been established. Being led to conclude that my core issue was "I am a burden to my family" did not lead to insight or growth; instead, it reinforced insecurity and shame. Rather than helping me challenge this belief, the environment at New Haven placed me deeper into it. Staff behavior, peer labeling, and constant surveillance made that belief feel confirmed rather than questioned. Group therapy dominated the daily schedule. After school hours (approximately 9:00-2:30), residents are required to sit in groups lasting up to two hours. There was little evidence of individualized care, and discussions frequently crossed into territory that felt more like forced confession than therapy. Physical activity was also presented as therapeutic, yet even this lacked integrity. In PE classes, effort was not required; residents could easily fake participation. Exercise is key to patients as I learned after getting out of treatment. Staffing is another serious concern. Many staff members were extremely young, often still in college, and lacked relevant clinical or medical backgrounds. They were not nurses, therapists, or trained mental health professionals, yet they were placed in positions of authority over highly vulnerable adolescents. This lack of training showed in how crises were handled. Physical restraints were used when residents attempted to run away, forcing other girls to witness traumatic events. This environment was not locked down, creating safety risks for everyone involved. Boundaries and professionalism were also inconsistent. My psychiatrist told me during my final two months that they could not help me, a statement that felt both unprofessional and abandoning. Communication with parents was tightly controlled; residents were only allpowedd to call parents on the first level for 15 minutes. There were also incidents that demonstrated a lack of accountability and safety: two girls escaped and made it all the way to Las Vegas using a staff member's car. Despite the seriousness of this event, systemic changes were not apparent. Instead of addressing root problems, the program continued to rely on restriction and control. The equine therapy program, which is advertised as healing and grounding, was another example of disconnect between image and reality. Residents were responsible for feeding and cleaning up after the horses, often in unsanitary conditions with stalls full of waste. For adolescents struggling with mental health issues, this responsibility was overwhelming rather than therapeutic. It felt more like unpaid labor than treatment. Daily life was marked by deprivation rather than care. There were no snacks available aside from fruit. When parents were scheduled to visit, residents were required to clean rooms to an extreme standard using detailed checklists, reinforcing the sense that appearances mattered more than well-being. Over time, the program made me more depressed, not less. I developed lasting trauma from the constant monitoring, lack of safety, and emotional invalidation. Perhaps most disturbing was how the environment slowly changed my sense of self. I convinced myself I loved the program because I believed it was my only path to getting better. Only after leaving did I recognize the major flaws and the ways it had distorted my thinking.

I love how you guys have shut down the ability to review the services @cedarpsychiatry…read moreDO NOT BOTHER WITH THIS COMPANY. They can't be bothered to take notes about your visit, so you have to repeat all of your basic info and medications every single visit. - Want a written treatment plan? Too bad! They don't provide them. - Want a referral to a therapist? Too bad! They don't do that. - Want a medication refilled so that you can stop being suicidal, too bad! They don't do that. - Want a referral to urgent care? They've got you covered! I've been referred to visit an imaginary PCP so many times now that it's obvious that this pretend person is who I should be paying unholy medical bills to and not this institution that can't manage the basics of SOAP medical notes. Aren't those required by law? Oh, I also forgot about your complete inability to properly bill my insurance! That's another fun service you guys offer, extra stress from incorrect bills! #Mydoctoristryingtokillme #Didtheyevengotomedicalschool #PTSD #baddoctors

love my doctor there but it drives me nuts calling them, on hold listening to Muzak for forever.read more

Have been going to her for a while now and she is amazing and provides a very warm and safe…read moreenvironment for therapy.