Christian boarding schools and other therapeutic boarding school options and residential programs for troubled teens, boys and girls, with teen counseling.

Admissions Staff

Melissa Gregston Nelson Melissa Gregston Nelson, Director of Admissions, has a unique understanding of the workings of Heartlight, having grown up with parents who founded the Heartlight program. Melissa has always been a part of Heartlight, and now plays a crucial role for incoming families and assisting them in the admission and interview process. Having graduated from Baylor University in Waco, Texas with a degree in Child and Family Studies, Melissa is equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary for working with families. Prior to joining the Heartlight Staff in July of 2000, Melissa worked as a child life specialist at Early Childhood Intervention in Longview, Texas. Melissa and her husband, Blake, Heartlight’s Residential Director, have two daughters, Maile and Macie.Please fill in the contact form if you’d like an admission packet and DVD.
Courtney Goswick Courtney Goswick, Admissions Assistant. Few people can boast of swimming in the Main House pool as a young child like Courtney can! A Longview lifer, this is Courtney’s second tour of duty at Heartlight after taking time off following the September 2008 birth of her daughter, Miller Grace. In addition to hobbies like crafting, Courtney enjoys spending time with her husband Shane and the rest of their extended family that lives in the area. She has a big heart for hurting people and brings a tremendous amount of laughter and lightness to Heartlight.

Please fill in the contact form if you’d like an admission packet and DVD.

Need Urgent Help? The Admissions Department can be reached weekdays from 9am to 5pm Central at 903.668.2173. Call after hours or on weekends and your message will be immediately forwarded to one of the Admissions Staff.



Christian residential schools and behavioral therapy for troubled teens with teen counseling to improve behavior problems of teenagers struggling with anger, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), attention deficit, attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), substance abuse, depression, reactive attachment disorder (RAD), intermittent explosive disorder (IED), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, self-harm, or rebellion.

THERAPEUTIC BOARDING SCHOOLS AND BEHAVIORAL THERAPY FOR TROUBLED TEENS, BOYS OR GIRLS.

Heartlight's therapeutic schools provide troubled teens with the help and counseling troubled teens need. It gives time for the whole family to heal. Everyone can then look past the anger and teenage rebellion to focus on the troubled teenager's healing. Our Christian residential schools serve Texas, California, Oregon and Washington on the West Coast and Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Nevada in the Southwest, from Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Louisiana, and Mississippi, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois in the Central States, from Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Idaho in the north, and from Georgia, Florida, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and New Jersey along the east coast. Teens come to Heartlight from throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Heartlight is a Christian boarding school with loving and relational behavioral
therapy for troubled teens; a therapeutic boarding school for
girls and therapeutic boarding school for boys.