Greenbrier Academy for Girls Brings

In 2007, attorney, author, neurolinguistics trainer, and experienced therapeutic youth-program director L. Jay Mitchell established Greenbrier Academy for Girls (GBA) in the rolling foothills of West Virginia. This therapeutic boarding school operates with an equal focus on academics and the personal journey of healing, offering young women the chance to gain new insights into their lives and relationships and cope successfully with issues such as depression, anxiety, emotional dysregulation, substance abuse, and fractured relationships. L. Jay Mitchell and his team make students’ families a central part of the therapeutic process, believing that the most successful outcomes consider students as part of a family system.

GBA’s experienced staff observe the numerous positive changes in a student’s ability to handle her own emotions and live a full and rewarding life of conscience, character, and integrity. The GBA experience is specifically designed to help families grow for the better, as well.

In many cases, a young woman’s negative behavior patterns are based in unconscious or poorly expressed desires to see a change in the way her family members relate to her and to each other. A typical GBA student’s personal conflicts and problems did not originate in a vacuum; they will not be fully addressed in a vacuum either.

While Greenbrier Academy therapists’ regular phone conversations with parents cover the issues their daughters are working through, families have another powerful tool at hand through the Family Healing Program. This allows for the exploration of multi-generational patterns of miscommunication and misunderstanding while bolstering intra-familial connections and helping everyone ground themselves in strategies for coping and healing, long after the student leaves the school.