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WHAT IS ADVENTURE THERAPY?

Adventure therapy is an active, experiential approach to individual or group (and family) counseling:

• utilizing an activity base, such as cooperative group games, ropes course, hikes, or wilderness expeditions
• using real and or perceived (physical and psychological) risk as a clinically significant agent to bring about desired change
• making meaning(s), through insights that are expressed verbally, nonverbally, or unconsciously, that lead to behavioral change
• using reflection of the activity to discuss the close connections between adventure experience and their “everyday” lives.