“The deep listening and wise advice that the Samara team offered to us were invaluable gifts in our times of great fear and confusion. They provided our family with needed context and direction when we were in times of overwhelm and struggle. Thank you, from the depths of my heart!!”
Guiding a teen to wellness can be an overwhelming process for parents: managing daily challenges...time and attention demands on top of work...the emotional toll of uncertainty and frequent chaos...the complexity of navigating choices, services and support. Parents feel overtaxed and under resourced, adding unnecessary stress to an already challenging time.
When you’re struggling and don’t know where to turn, we provide direction about what’s happening and what to do to begin healing today.
When you’re ready to make the investment to intervene in your child’s life and change the course of what’s happening, we’re here to support you.
We focus on care and complex service coordination, interventions design and implementation, systems advocacy, and pre-residential diversions.
Samara’s Services
Skill-Building and Coaching
We use a positive, trauma-informed, strengths-based process to help your teen and family heal. Our approach: practical skill building to increase family harmony and improve decision-making.
We help you stop shaming and blaming...and start naming and framing.
We’ve learned that helping teens discover what is whole and precious within them, not broken or bad, is an effective way to help teens re-engage with their best self and find a healthy road back to self-esteem and motivation.
By shifting focus toward their inherent unique gifts, talents, skills, and interests, we guide each family member to build motivation for and engagement with the healing process. Combined with coaching families about effective boundaries and agreements, we help you build the road back to the family you’ve hoped for.
We focus on helping you practice skills, not simply talk about them, so that you learn to use new tools to make new choices, and build new habits. We create a nest of wellness for your family at home by providing in-home training and mentoring.
And we’ve built a comprehensive, custom-develop curriculum that provides you access to the best science has to offer for learning how to thrive in every aspect of your family’s lives. We use industry best practices to track and assess your family’s growth and daily tracking to ensure your family is making progress towards life goals.
Our skill-building services include:
At-home interventions implementation
Life launch training
College skills development
Family communication and conflict resolution skills
Social skills
Self-regulation training
Learning to stay safe
Risk management training
Strengths-based, motivational coaching
Mind-body connection
Stress management techniques
Mood management
Emotional awareness
Device addiction
… and more
Peer Mentoring
Our young adult and parent mentors are experienced guides that travel with you on your journey to wellness. Each of us have shared a similar journey, and know the challenges first-hand that you face. We’re highly engaged, attuned, supportive, hands-on, and high touch, and provide consistent access to support.
Serving as both companion and pilot, we provide a calm, compassionate, experienced guide for a confusing, sometimes chaotic or scary journey. We help you make sense of an unfamiliar and complex aspects of the educational and therapeutic systems, and provide sound advice for navigating choices and difficult decisions. And we help you see decision points that can reduce the chaos and begin the healing.
Most important, we help you find the courage and clarity to make the difficult decisions you sometimes face, and to provide the expertise and guidance you need to make those choices well.
We provide peer mentoring for:
Communication
Provide in-the-moment feedback and reframing to identify and change unproductive communication or decision-making patterns
Conflict resolution techniques
A focus on framing awareness of issues and effective coping techniques
Planning
To reduce stress, disconnection, and conflict
To increase harmony and collaboration
Parenting decision-making
Assessment of core family values and functions for your family
Action plans that make decisions and choices clear and actionable
Agreements for family collaboration that are values-based and make support and consequences for every family member clear and transparent
Support for families with teens in residential or intensive out-patient treatment
Care Coordination
Our wellness specialists are licensed clinicians that oversee every aspect of your teen’s needs. We provide your teen and family a comprehensive road map that plans for every part of a family’s life: school, life skills, physical wellness, work life, social wellness, and life organization.
Our structured assessments brings calm expertise and focus to identifying needs and providing appropriate support. And our comprehensive, integrated support planning ensure each need is addressed.
We simplify the burden of coordinating multiple service providers, shortening the wait time for treatment options and care, and we ensure effective communication so that treatment is timely and appropriate.
Our Services Include:
Crisis management and planning
Assessments for risk and functioning
Service delivery plans across all domains of functional impairment
Guidance on evidence-based treatments for specific issues
Responsive treatment planning based on continual tracking of client needs and outcomes
Care coordination and communication among providers
Complex services coordination
Service referrals for psychiatrists, counselors, therapists, social skills trainers, executive functioning trainers, tutors, and more
Client advocacy, including educational advocacy such as IEPs and 504s
Alternative school recommendations
College planning
Pre-residential diversions
Post-residential treatment transitions