"Clinically sophisticated support, while honoring your freedom and autonomy."
Why Engage
Engage is a therapeutic environment located footsteps away from Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah, and minutes away from the mountains. Engage’s purpose is to provide therapeutic support for young adults struggling with their mental health that is often limiting their ability to be independent. These challenges may be depression, anxiety, loneliness, trauma, and lack of purpose.
Engage’s therapist and certified life coaches are driven by attachment theory and experiential learning while understanding the specific needs of young adults. While attending college or working, our young adults also participate in therapy, classes, and community events. It is with Engage’s therapeutic guidance and life coaching in a real life setting, our young adults are building stronger emotional connections and the necessary skills for success.
Why Engage
Engage is a therapeutic environment located footsteps away from Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah, and minutes away from the mountains. Engage’s purpose is to provide therapeutic support for young adults struggling with attachment distress, and relational trauma that is often creating emotional and relational challenges. These challenges may be depression, anxiety, loneliness, and lack of purpose. Engage’s therapist and certified life coaches are driven by principles of attachment while understanding the developmental needs of young adults. It is through Engage’s therapeutic guidance and life coaching one can better experience stronger emotional connections and develop new responses to familiar relationships challenges.
Living Space Matters
Located in the heart of Cedar City, UT just footsteps away from Southern Utah University and minutes away from the mountains of Cedar City. Engage clients may choose to attend SUU; however, it is not a requirement. Engage is designed to motivate and encourage the young adult to participate in 30 plus hours of weekly activities. Along with weekly therapeutic services and life coaching students may attend college, work, volunteer and engage in recreational activities, fitness and hobbies.
Relationship Focused
Certified Life Coaches
Our direct care staff and clinicians are trained by WholeFit, an integrative life coaching model. It is vital that everyone at Engage is equipped with the tools and knowledge to effectively support, guide, and intervene with our clients. It's not about supervision, but about knowing when and how to coach in who they want to be versus what we think they should be.
The Model
Our residential and clinical staffing model is intentionally designed to support young adults experiencing attachment and relational distress. Creating a small therapeutic milieu directed by the client’s primary therapist better allows for deeper connections and sustained relational corrective experiences. The therapist as team leads promotes an effective navigation of close and meaningful relationships. Through Engage’s therapeutic guidance one can better experience stronger emotional connections and develop new responses to familiar relationships challenges.
Life at Engage
Engage offers 30+ hours of opportunities weekly to participate in group and community activities to build life skills and challenge yourself in new ways. Each week, we have a dedicated time for adventure therapy to connect with yourself, peers, Life Coaches, and the outdoors. Our young adults have season passes to our local ski resort, their own personal mountain bike, gym memberships, and access to outdoor gear and supplies for other activities. Engage has daily life skills classes ranging from cooking and nutrition, financial literacy, job skills, vehicle maintenance, communication and relational success.
Work and College
Cedar City is a great place to go to college or get a job. Engage supports our young adults in continuing their education and pursuing work. Our apartments are downtown, a block away from the university and thriving local businesses. Our young adults build confidence and skills for employment through volunteering and participating in community service weekly. We want our young adults to have real life experiences while they are healing.
Life at Engage
Engage offers 30+ hours of opportunities weekly to participate in group and community activities to build life skills and challenge yourself in new ways. Each week, we have a dedicated time for adventure therapy to connect with yourself, peers, Life Coaches, and the outdoors. Our young adults have season passes to our local ski resort, their own personal mountain bike, gym memberships, and access to outdoor gear and supplies for other activities. Engage has daily life skills classes ranging from cooking and nutrition, financial literacy, job skills, vehicle maintenance, communication and relational success.
Work and College
Cedar City is a great place to go to college or get a job. Engage supports our young adults in continuing their education and pursuing work. Our apartments are downtown, a block away from the university and thriving local businesses. Our young adults build confidence and skills for employment through volunteering and participating in community service weekly. We want our young adults to have real life experiences while they are healing.
Life at Engage
Engage offers 30+ hours of opportunities weekly to participate in group and community activities to build life skills and challenge yourself in new ways. Each week, we have a dedicated time for adventure therapy to connect with yourself, peers, Life Coaches, and the outdoors. Our young adults have season passes to our local ski resort, their own personal mountain bike, gym memberships, and access to outdoor gear and supplies for other activities. Engage has daily life skills classes ranging from cooking and nutrition, financial literacy, job skills, vehicle maintenance, communication and relational success.
Work and College
Cedar City is a great place to go to college or get a job. Engage supports our young adults in continuing their education and pursuing work. Our apartments are downtown, a block away from the university and thriving local businesses. Our young adults build confidence and skills for employment through volunteering and participating in community service weekly. We want our young adults to have real life experiences while they are healing.
Our Living Space
Young adults at Engage live independently in their own apartments. Our office is directly connected to three apartment units. Engage participants needing more direct support will reside here while others will live down the block in their downtown Cedar City apartment.
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