Thrive Helps Girls Heal from Self Harm Tendencies

Thrive Girls Ranch & Home understands that you want to find help for your struggling teen girl who may be suffering with Self Harm Tendencies. We’re here to help at our affordable, specialized boarding school program, set in a safe, positive and structured environment near Austin, Texas.

What is Self Harm Tendencies?

Thrive Girls Ranch & Home knows how to help your daughter, as she struggles with Self-Harm, a condition in which she is deliberately causing injury to herself, more than only in the form of Cutting, at times by burning, punching, head banging or breaking her own bones. It can also be characterized by her participating in high-risk activities.

Self-Harm (also known as self-abuse, self-mutilation or self-injury) can be the way in which she is able to express feelings she can’t put into words, divert herself from painful emotions, or gain power over, at least, her body if she feels she can’t control anything else in her life.  It is also a cry for help.

Many girls who suffer with Self-Harm report some type of childhood abuse (sexual or physical), and almost all say they were discouraged from showing emotions.  Self-Abuse is not generally seen as a cry for help, since girls usually do it in secret, and work to hide the actions, as well as the emotions that lead to it.  Your daughter may feel alone or empty, frightened by the thought of intimate relationships.

Self-harming behaviors can be a sign of several different psychiatric illnesses or personality disorders.

Treating Self-Harming Teenage Girls

Because Self-Injury may be linked to a variety of mental disorders like depression or eating disorders, it is especially necessary to properly diagnose your daughter.

There is not a single treatment approved for this disorder, but a myriad of options, such as different types of therapy.  Treatment might include helping her to understand destructive thoughts and behaviors, gaining skills in developing outside relationships, mindfulness-based therapies (which help her to live in the present and properly construe the behaviors of those around her).

Your Teen Girl Can Change and Thrive

We provide therapeutic counseling to each individual girl, plus daily learning experiences and activities that nurture a true change of heart–and help her thrive in life.

Thrive Girls Ranch & Home offers life transformation to girls who struggle with life-controlling and self-destructive behaviors or attitudes. We desire to see every girl discover her God-given potential, and live out our core values of integrity, compassion, community, vision, stewardship, servanthood, and faith in Jesus Christ.

Here, teen girls receive fully accredited middle and high school curriculum through Alpha Omega Academy. We also offer extensive academic recovery options, and help her prepare to transition into a normal, healthy lifestyle in college, ministry or the workforce. And because we highly value family restoration, parents can visit their girl once a month, and receive good insight on improving family relationships.

Need help with your teen girl suffering with Self Harm Tendencies?
We enroll girls (ages 12-17 years) year-round, but we have a limited number of placements.
Please call (512) 545-2226 now.
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