Christian Boarding School for Troubled Girls

Elk Mountain Girls Academy is a Christ-centered boarding school for troubled girls with emotional, behavioral, and academic issues. Licensed clinicians and counseling professionals who are professing Christians provide therapeutic services to EMA students.

"Your statutes are my delight; they are my counselors" Psalms 19:11

With an unprecedented number of troubled girls reaching epidemic numbers over the last twenty years, the US has also seen an equally meteoric rise of treatment programs that claim to fully rehabilitate troubled youth.

Unfortunately, like any market fueled by supply and demand, the troubled teen industry has too many programs that are more interested in cashing than they are in being a viable and effective Christ-centered service.

"Elk Mountain Girls Academy Mission... To create safe space for healthy growth to light her path"

All too often, desperate Christian parents of struggling teenage girls send their daughter to an ineffective treatment program, including behavioral modification and boot camp programs.

While these types of facilities may have once been the most popular choice among parents of troubled girls, we now know these academic-based institutions are not only ineffective but in many cases, actually make behavioral and psychological issues even worse.

Thankfully for Christian parents of troubled girls, there is one type of residential treatment that has a much better track record in rehabilitating wayward girls than its predecessors: Christian Boarding schools for troubled girls.

What is a Christian Boarding School for Troubled Girls?

Christian Boarding schools for girls (also commonly referred to as therapeutic boarding schools) are highly specialized residential schools that, in addition to providing teens with an individualized academic program, provide troubled youth with expert therapeutic and behavioral therapies.

Since Christian boarding schools require their students to live on the premises 24/7, these treatment facilities are also often referred to as residential treatment centers - although it should be noted there are slight differences between the two.

Elk Mountain Girls Academy is a non-denominational Christian therapeutic boarding school for struggling girls. We focus on therapeutic intervention, college-preparatory academics, Christian discipleship, emotional growth, and leadership training.

"Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?" Romans 2:4

Elk Mountain Girls Academy: A Christian Boarding School for Troubled Girls

Elk Mountain Girls Academy is a single-gender Christian boarding school for troubled teenage girls. We believe that, when it comes to the treatment of troubled girls, single-gender therapy is the most effective form of treatment.

I will choose love over fear. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with your mind and with all your strength." Mark 12:30

When it comes to serving troubled teenage girls, we at Elk Mountain Girls Academy believe in matching a child’s therapeutic and behavioral needs with a treatment that limits their distractions -- such as ones coming from the opposite sex -- while addressing their individual needs.

Helping Girls from Across America for Over 20 Years

Elk Mountain Girls Academy is a Joint Commission accredited therapeutic boarding school designed to help young Christian women solve difficult emotional issues such as attachment disorders, attention deficit, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, self-destructive or antisocial behavior, and issues involved with their adoption. We can help your daughter get past her emotional struggles and trauma, as we have done for so many others.

The Seven Guiding Principals of Elk Mountain Girls Academy

1. I will choose LOVE.
2. I will FORGIVE myself and others.
3. I will be ACCOUNTABLE for myself and to others at all times.
4. I will speak my truth in a GENTLE manner, especially when I am: Mad-Sad-Glad-Afraid.
5. I will create SAFETY: Physical-Spiritual-Emotional-Relational.
6. I will maintain CONFIDENTIALITY at all times.
7. I will seek JOY.

Elk Mountain Girls Academy is a non-denominational Christian boarding school for struggling girls. We focus on therapeutic intervention, college-preparatory academics, Christian discipleship, emotional growth, and leadership training.

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” John 10:10

Elk Mountain Girls Academy offers affordable, expert treatment for life-controlling issues and disorders in girls, including attachment disorders, attention deficit, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, self-destructive or antisocial behavior, and issues involved with adoption.

We lead troubled girls to seek truth and to trust in the Holy Spirit, our Holy Comforter who was given to all believers in Christ. At EMA we coach and train our students to seek, trust, and rely on the Holy Spirit, who is their comforter.

"Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?" Romans 2:4

For additional information regarding our residential treatment program, please call us at Call (208) 266-1122.