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Star Guides Wilderness
Treatment Center
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Star Guides Wilderness

Treatment Center

Verified by Psychology Today Verified by Psychology Today
Pleasant Grove, UT 84062
(866) 369-8591
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Navigation to Healthy Sexuality
STAR Guides is an outdoor therapeutic program designed for youth and young adults who are struggling with problematic sexual behavior. STAR Guides provides families with navigation through these challenges. Regardless of past behaviors, we believe that all youth can learn to achieve healthy sexuality. Research suggests that for many, sexual problematic behavior first begins during the adolescent years. STAR Guides helps youth to deal with these problems while they are still young. Many youth in today's modern world find themselves lost and in need of direction as they attempt to navigate the thick darkness that accompanies sexual behavior problems. Just as the ancient peoples of the world, they are in need of STAR Guides. Based in beautiful St. George, Utah the program provides teens and young adults with a high impact, life-changing therapeutic wilderness experience in the heart of the majestic red rock of the high desert of Southern Utah. STAR Guides is the ideal intervention for individuals needing to learn to manage problematic sexual behaviors that they have been unable to manage previously.
Help for Pornography and Cyber-Sex Addiction
The first of its kind nationally, STAR Guides offers wilderness therapy that has been uniquely designed for adolescent males combating pornography addiction, cyber-sex addiction, and other compulsive sexual behaviors. This is a particularly effective intervention for those who have been unsuccessful in the past in breaking free from their addictions. Completely unplugged from technology and modern society, addicted teens learn new ways to deal with difficult emotions and problems while exploring the remote high desert of Utah. This life changing experience provides youth with the foundation to build their adult life, free from sexual addiction. Youth who participate in the program come to more fully understand pornography and sexual addiction and the accompanying behaviors while being provided the opportunity to develop skills to eliminate the addictions from their lives. Youth gain awareness of the addiction cycle, the science of pornography addiction, the underlying emotional issues leading to addiction, thinking errors and most importantly, the program provides a strong focus on abstinence maintenance and the creation of a recovery plan for youth to use for maintaining long term abstinence after they have completed treatment.
Help for Sexual Abuse
Few challenges that families face today, can be as heart breaking as sexual abuse within a family. Because of the sexualization of our culture, the ease of access to pornography along with other factors, unfortunately, more and more families are having to deal with sexual offending behavior in their children. For young people struggling with sexual offending behavior, STAR Guides provides assessment and treatment services to specifically address these issues. In many cases, the offender ends up in the legal system and may be required to leave the family home resulting in the need for placement in a foster home or youth correctional facility. STAR Guides provides a wilderness therapeutic placement that delivers a more impactful and behavior changing experience than any other out-of-home option for youth offenders. For youth who have sexually offended, there is not a better environment for giving a "Wake Up" call that behavior change is needed than the wilderness. Learning to live in a primitive fashion in the remote high desert of Utah without any of the modern amenities for which they have become accustomed is the most demanding and growth promoting experience that a young offender could ever receive.
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Our Facility at a Glance

Available in-person

Star Guides Wilderness

Pleasant Grove, UT 84062

(866) 369-8591

Star Guides Wilderness

Grand Junction, CO 81506

We specialize in Sexual Abuse, Sexual Addiction and Internet Addiction 
Our clients are preteens and teens  
Let's Connect (866) 369-8591
Photo of Daniel Sanderson - Star Guides Wilderness, PhD, Treatment Center

Our Facility at a Glance

Available in-person

Star Guides Wilderness

Pleasant Grove, UT 84062

(866) 369-8591

Star Guides Wilderness

Grand Junction, CO 81506

We specialize in Sexual Abuse, Sexual Addiction and Internet Addiction 
Our clients are preteens and teens  

Qualifications

  • Verified by Psychology Today License: Utah / 317584-2501
Feel free to ask about qualifications and training experience. or (866) 369-8591
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Star Guides Wilderness
Treatment Center
Feel free to ask about qualifications and training experience. or (866) 369-8591
Photo of Daniel Sanderson - Star Guides Wilderness, PhD, Treatment Center
Star Guides Wilderness
Treatment Center

Specialties and Expertise

Top Specialties

  • Sexual Abuse
  • Sexual Addiction
  • Internet Addiction

Expertise

  • Addiction
  • ADHD
  • Adoption
  • Asperger's Syndrome
  • Behavioral Issues
  • Child
  • Depression
  • Emotional Disturbance
  • Impulse Control Disorders
  • Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
  • Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
  • Peer Relationships
  • School Issues
  • Testing and Evaluation
  • Video Game Addiction
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Star Guides Wilderness
Treatment Center
Do these issues align with your needs? or (866) 369-8591
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Star Guides Wilderness
Treatment Center

Client Focus

Age

Preteen , 
Teen

Participants

Individuals , 
Family , 
Group

I also speak

Spanish

Age

Preteen , 
Teen

Participants

Individuals , 
Family , 
Group

I also speak

Spanish

Programs and Services

Treatment Programs

  • Outdoor Therapy
  • Sex Addiction Program
  • Teens & Adolescent Residential
  • Wilderness Rehab
  • Young Adult Residential

Out / Inpatient

  • Long Term (>30 Days) Residential
  • Short Term (<30 Days) Residential

Types of Therapy

  • Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
  • Family Systems
  • Forensic Psychology
  • Psychological Testing and Evaluation
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Star Guides Wilderness
Treatment Center
Ask about what different forms of therapy will be like. or (866) 369-8591
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Star Guides Wilderness
Treatment Center

Groups

Sexual Compulsivity Track

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Daniel Sanderson

Because of the ease of access to explicit media and the potency of today's pornography, many parents are faced with the difficult and uncomfortable task of addressing pornography use and sexual behavior problems by their children. Research suggests that most pornography and sexual addictions begin during adolescence. Unfortunately, most people don't seek treatment until later in life when the problem has become more pervasive. STAR Guides navigates youth beyond these addictions while they are still young.

Expertise

Internet Addiction
Sexual Abuse
Sexual Addiction

Age

Teen

Location

Star Guides Wilderness

Norfolk, VA 23502

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Sexual Offenses Track

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Hosted by
Daniel Sanderson

Few behaviors can be as potentially devastating to a young person's future as sexual offending. The ramifications carry long lasting negative consequences. For youth and young adults in this situation, STAR Guides delivers the most impactful, life-changing therapeutic experience available for sexual behavior problems. STAR guides provides a comprehensive assessment and treatment for youth and young adults who have committed or been accused of sexual offending behaviors in a remote wilderness venue, setting it apart from other more traditional forms of treatment.

Expertise

Internet Addiction
Sexual Abuse
Sexual Addiction

Age

Teen

Location

Star Guides Wilderness

Colorado Springs, CO 80906

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Teen Sexual Behavior Problems

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Hosted by
Daniel Sanderson

Because of the ease of access to explicit media and the potency of today's pornography, many parents are faced with the difficult and uncomfortable task of addressing pornography use and sexual behavior problems by their children. Research suggests that most pornography and sexual addictions begin during adolescence. Unfortunately, most people don't seek treatment until later in life when the problem has become more pervasive. STAR Guides navigates youth beyond these addictions while they are still young.

Expertise

Child
Sexual Abuse
Sexual Addiction

Age

Teen

Location

Star Guides Wilderness

Fort Worth, TX 76122

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Location

Primary Location

Star Guides Wilderness

Pleasant Grove, UT 84062

(866) 369-8591

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Additional Location

Star Guides Wilderness

Grand Junction, CO 81506

(866) 369-8591

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Star Guides Wilderness
Treatment Center
Take the first step to help. Call now - (866) 369-8591
Photo of Daniel Sanderson - Star Guides Wilderness, PhD, Treatment Center
Star Guides Wilderness
Treatment Center