www.outbacktreatment.com

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Growing up in the mountains of Montana, Kendra embraced the power of the wilderness. She has worked with hundreds of young people in the backcountry for the past 15 years, over 1500 field days in a variety of environments. Kendra earned a dual degree Master of Social Work and Master of Science: Kinesiology, Outdoor Education from the University of New Hampshire. In addition, became involved in the Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Council, contributing to research in hopes of maintaining sustainability in the field of wilderness therapy.

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The type of kids she works with: Kendra works primarily with the female group at Outback. Many young women Kendra has been working with have a history of mood disorders, Attachment issues, Identity issues, trauma related issues, substance abuse and Oppositional Defiant Disorder.

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How she works: Kendra chooses to engage the girls in a way that invites challenge, fun, and self-reliance. In a world demanding the worth of an individual according to appearance and popularity, we have every opportunity to shatter that belief. Kendra enjoys using a kinesthetic approach, utilizing the wilderness as the perfect play ground to learn. We see metaphor in everything and can often be the way we begin to learn to communicate when we have not words. It is in the wilderness we are allowed space and time to be empowered to be our true selves. We need to be creative, sweat in the sun, and feel the power within us when hard work is done in the body, heart, mind and soul. That is beauty. A rite of passage for a young women holds power in the process to be able to try, to fail, and try again to find mastery of our lives.

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Life goal #1: Make a furry

friend to work

alongside with as a

therapist, preferably a

dog to join me in the

field.

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