From "troubled teens" to thriving teams—whether you’ve tried therapy, treatment programs, or are just so over feeling stuck, this one’s for you. 💚 Read the Not Therapy success stories and see what’s been working for families like yours!

Two former troubled teens' take on where residential treatment & wilderness programs can innovate

Instead, invest that $100k into college, bitcoin, the Westminster dog show, or start a business!

Our take on Paris Hilton as two former troubled teen treatment survivors 💚

And it has nothing to do with their kid...

A recap of my 20's - Instagram vs. Reality 🌟

Realizing how the lessons learned from relationships in my 20's have finally paid off! parents breathe sigh of relief

Not Therapy was invited to visit a treatment program last week to give our feedback. These are our thoughts 💡

We get that you’re exhausted, and you have every right to feel scared that we’re going to slip back into old behaviors. **Spoiler alert:** we will.

Or alternatively: “My kid has no friends.”

My parents have been there.

Mine and my peers' reactions when we learned our treatment center has to pay $2.5m in punitive damages for fraud.

We’re just a group of former troubled teens who want to improve their own mental health while helping other young people who’ve been in treatment do the same.

So oversharing our childhood trauma *isn't* how we make friends in the real world?

What happens when you put a former troubled teen with a current troubled teen in an apartment together for 8 weeks.

“I’ve said sorry like a million times, and they won't forgive me!!”

From a former troubled teen’s perspective, here’s how to start the healing process after treatment.

It's not just that we're so done with therapy after treatment...we're ready to enter our villain era.

And it only took us 12 years to finally do it! Colin and I ran our first-ever online workshop for parents of teens and young adults, and it had one of the highest attendance rates ever for a workshop hosted by the Other Parents Like Me community!

Taking bets on how long I followed the rules until my parents' plan went completely out the window.

As someone who was diagnosed with oppositional defiance disorder (ODD), freedom - or personal agency - has been the number one thing I’ve valued for as long as I can remember. We believe it’s extremely important to give young people entering adulthood or leaving treatment a path to personal agency right out of the gate. Here’s how.

Imagine you’re heading off to your freshman year of college. You have that excited-anxious feeling about living on your own, making new friends, wondering if people will like you, and taking college classes. Now imagine feeling that way, but you haven’t talked to your peers for the last two years.