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

Heartlight’s Relational Setting

It cannot be emphasized enough that the success of the Heartlight program lies in the coordinated team effort made by the staff to provide an atmosphere of serious pursuit in resolving teen problems, while saturating each teen resident with personal relationships.

Relationships also include the parents and the family. Our Parent Retreats and periodic Family Retreats are desgned to help teach parents and family better ways to deal with their teenager. And parents are kept in the loop via weely reports and regualr connections with the Heartlight residential staff, counseling staff and the academic coordinators.

All activities at Heartlight are designed to promote interaction and interpersonal relationships between the staff and teen residents. Because of this life-on-life experience with staff, young people’s lives are changed, and problems and difficulties become opportunities for deepening relationships.

Though we do not push or force church attendance or religion, it is also our hope that each teenager will find answers to questions they have about life and their own struggles in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Our staff are all Christians and stand ready to help each teenager find a closer relationship with their Maker.

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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.