Newport Academy offers individualized, gender-specific residential facilities for teens and families struggling with mental health, trauma, eating disorders, and substance abuse issues. Newport Academy focuses on healing the underlying causes of self-destructive behaviors through a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary holistic approach to treatment that includes CBT, DBT, EMDR, Guided Imagery, Motivational Interviewing, Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy, Art Therapy, Yoga, Meditation, and other experiential and therapeutic modalities. Newport Academy combines evidence-based clinical, experiential, and academic elements into each individual’s treatment program and provides a path for teens to heal and live happy, healthy lives. With a staff to resident ratio of five to one, we offer a compassionate staff that is attentive and responsive. Treatment consists of a minimum of 30 hours of clinical and experiential therapy and 20 hours of academic study and counseling each week. Newport Academy comes from a family-systems approach to healing. Families participate in a Parent Orientation, weekly individualized family therapy sessions, a Saturday Family Program, and a Parent Intensive. Sustainable healing at Newport Academy is about supporting the whole family, and we engage the family with psycho-educational, experiential, and process-oriented activities throughout the entire treatment process. The Newport Academy medical team is led by Chief Clinical Officer, Dr. Barbara Nosal, PhD, licensed Marriage and Family therapists; Chief Operating Officer, Joe Proccopio; Dr. Michel Mennesson, Dr. Prakash Thomas, and Dr. Geoffrey Phillips, who are all board-certified in general Psychiatry and Child/Adolescent Psychiatry. The Newport Academy disordered eating program is led by a Registered Dietician, a Clinical Nutritionist, and Nurse Practitioner.

Do you want to find your strengths, follow your passions, and earn a high school diploma doing so? Pacific Sands Academy offers interest-led, passion-driven independent studies programs for teens wishing to find an alternative route to a high school diploma. Are you bored in high school? Do you want to bypass high school and start your local Community College? or trade school? Earn a diploma quickly at Pacific Sands Academy. We offer personalized learning plans created in collaboration with teens and their parents, weekly support, and high school diplomas when teens demonstrate a readiness to take the next step in their lives. "Our whole family has so appreciated the way Shauna supports our kids. She sees them as whole people, in the context of their whole world. This has allowed her to share their delight equally at trampoline tricks, culinary adventures, and academic breakthroughs. Because she is relaxed and trusting, the kids trust her with their true selves, because they can feel that all of who they are matters to her. We are always happy to have a meeting with Shauna--there is never shame or a sense that the kids "should have been doing something else," just excitement to see who they are and what they are up to. This is inspiring!"--- Brenda Leach, mom to four teens Shauna worked with

Eldorado Emerson Private School is Orange County's premier independent, accredited, nonsectarian private school. Founded in 1958, the school's tradition of excellence is in reflected in students' consistently high standardized test scores. However, the focus of the school is more on educating the whole child, ensuring a balance between life and learning. The average student/teacher ratio is 10:1, with about 200 students enrolled. All students have core academics, art, music, foreign language, hands-on science, and athletics. Eldorado Emerson's school atmosphere is positive and friendly - a place where children feel valued and inspired to excel in all areas. Many go on to attend the best colleges and universities in the country.

Dedicated to Autism Spectrum Disorder, We are recognized as one of the most successful programs offered in Southern California.

Oakridge is a non-profit school with a student centered approach to education. * We believe in a strong curriculum, which is focused on academic success and provides a solid foundation for higher learning. * We believe in a caring and stimulating school environment which enables children to achieve academically while also developing self-esteem and respect for others. * We believe life is more than just academics, and children need a moral and ethical frame of reference. A value-based education is the best foundation for your child's future. * We believe children learn what they live, therefore, Oakridge is designed to ensure that parents, teachers and staff work as a team to provide the very best opportunities for children.

Eldorado Emerson Private School is Orange County's premier independent, accredited, nonsectarian private school. Founded in 1958, the school's tradition of academic excellence is in reflected in students' consistently high standardized test scores. However, the focus of the school is more on educating the whole child, ensuring a balance between life and learning. The average student/teacher ratio is 10:1, with about 200 students enrolled. All students have core academics, art, music, foreign language, hands-on science, and athletics. Eldorado Emerson's school atmosphere is positive and friendly - a place where children feel valued and inspired to excel in all areas. Many go on to attend the best colleges and universities in the country.