About Nexus-Mille Lacs Family Healing – Onamia
Nexus – Mille Lacs Academy is a treatment center that helps families and children who are dealing with mental health issues. They’ll offer you treatment in the form of a residential program, which caters to youth. They have centers across the US but this one is in Onamia, Minnesota. They focus on creating programs for youth between ages 10 and 18.
The Mille Lacs location specializes in sexual problematic behaviors. With this program they will work with your child with an individualized treatment plan to help combat this issue. They take an empathetic approach that is trauma informed when going over the challenges that your child faces. This will be done through assessments and psychiatric evaluations to treat your child and help them combat their negative thoughts. Experiential therapy will be used as the treatment method. This means that they’ll use animal interactions and play therapy to help treat your child.
Aside from treatment, this facility has a supportive transition system to help your child move from the recovery setting to everyday life for a gradual move back home. People have mentioned that this place was not ideal at first, but after a while they said that this place helped them a lot.