Copper Canyon Academy Reviews

I went to Copper Canyon Academy in 2007 when I was 17 years old and a senior in high school. I still have nightmares about this place and I'm now 30 years old. My mother died from breast cancer while I was there and although I was in a "therapuetic" boarding school, I never received any help in dealing with my grief and was actually punished for grieving. If my father had not pulled me from the program early to start college, I would have left the day I turned 18 even though I had no money and nowhere to go. Anything would have been better than staying there. Please, do not send your daughters here!

I went here when it was still called copper canyon when I was 16 and I m 27 now. I still have nightmares about this place. Every day spent here was mental torture, every moment you re being watched and criticized by adults who are hired to break you down. You can t tell your parents the truth because the staff proof reads your letters and emails and will call you manipulative and drop you a level keeping you there longer. Everyone fakes the program and does what they can to survive through the day. Most of the girls there have trauma as is and this place only furthers it. The work hours, the 24 for hour silence vests, the hundreds of rules you have to remember and no mercy, the treatment team meetings, the seminars, all of it is despicable and I hurt for every girl going through what I went through. The owners talk this place up and lie to the parents and the daughters are the ones who suffer. We were treated like prisoners. Please don t send your child here. There are better options. This isn t the answer.

This school is exactly what my step daughter needed. Although she didn't stay for the entire program, she reconnected with our family and received the therapy for her depression and school anxiety. Also very pleased with the teachers.

What an absolutely fantastic experience! I was able to see my daughter ride her horse and show me everything she's learned about them. That was the highlight of my visit. She is doing so well, I'm ecstatic about what the future holds.

This place was awful for me the girls were so rude and just tried dragging me down with them. I am so glad I got pulled early.

DO NOT SEND YOUR GIRLS TO SEDONA SKY ACADEMY. worst place ever. my daughter went here over two years ago and is still suffering with extreme trauma from the experience. the staff are abusive and the entire website is a lie. the girls sneak drugs and alcohol in. staff are EXTREMELY under-qualified. our daughter left worse than she came in. $100,000 dollars not only down the drain, but used to make out daughter WORSE. she still hasn t been able to forgive us. this is a concentration camp designed to make itself out to be a residential treatment center. i beg you, for your sake as well as your daughter s, do send your daughter here.

Please do not ever send your children here or anywhere like this. It has been ten years since I have left this awful place and I still to this day have problems from this experience. It is not AT ALL what it looks like on the website. I can not believe how wonderful it looks online but actually being there and going thru that is pure hell. They just want the parents money and brainwash them into getting it. The girls must fake there way thru the program just to get by. The staff treat you like dirt and the therapists manulipulate you into making you think you have a bigger problem then what you do. I know girls who have graduated and not one got better but rather worse after the first few years of being back home. Therapy at home or talking to your children is a better option then having them taken and sent away to a place like this.

We sent our daughter there here senior year as our last resort before we lost her to her friends and drug culture. It was a really tough decision, and the first few months were hard for all of us, but after a while she began to become more independent having a happy outlook on life. She was exposed to so many new things like horses, art, and new people. She has confided in us that she knows her path was destructive and thanked us for doing the hard thing. We cant say enough about how happy we are together now.

It's a Fantastic boarding school with friendly and Nice staff. They are always welcoming and help you. Sedona Sky Academy is a great environment for students. They have many wonderful activities for the students. The school teaches students to be responsible, Respectful, Trustworthy, and helps them to be prepared for life.

Sedona Sky was an outstanding experience for our daughter. It got her out of all of the noise of \\\normal\\\ life in the city and gave her a chance to reflect on herself and work with her therapist to overcome the problems she was facing. The horsemanship program was AMAZING! and we absolutely loved to see her ride her beautiful horse and be so confident and in control with an animal so large. The environment is breathtaking, exactly what I think of as a therapeutic environment.Minimum 100 characters (Four Square is MAXIMUM 200 characters)

Sedona Sky Academy is an excellent therapeutic boarding school for girls. My experience working with and consulting with their therapists leads me to believe that they have the best interest of their students in mind.
I'm an advocate of equine therapy and experiential therapy when used for improved self-confidence and mental health for teenagers. Keep up the good work.

Hi, I actually attended Sedona Sky Academy, and I would just like to point out that the only five star review is from the one of the owners and founders of the school about how her daughters got
'great therapy here.' I don't even think she has a daughter and if she does she definitely never attended SSA

highly recommended. Beautiful location and small program where the girls get individual instruction and therapy. Paul was a great help when we visited.

The staff is so professional and patient with the girls. Her therapist the best! almost like a part of the family, she knows us so well we've all made a lot of progress.

I attended when it was Copper Canyon Acadmey in 2010. It was an incredibly emotionally abusive environment. I am twenty five years old now and I still suffer from nightmares and anxiety from what I endured st this program. It has a new name but it is still the same abusive culture. Everyone there tells you there is something wrong with you, that you are evil, you are manipulative and I do not identify as that kind of person. They break you down. And my dad was so pleased when I came home because I was fixed. I was not fixed I was broken, broken down from months of emotional abuse. One time I even saw a staff member repeatedly kick another student and when I reported it, nothing was done. This place is absolutely sick. This experience was almost ten years ago for me and it still effects me today. Think twice before sending your daughter here. I ve talked to girls who went there as Sedona Sky Academy and they have the same experience. Do not believe their lies, this is a house for child abuse, it is appalling that they dare to call this place therapeutic. As someone who has her Masters degree in Counseling, the techniques they use are completely unfounded. Making someone stand in the middle of a room full of adults who then tell them they are manipulative and purposely seek to hurt others. I still remember profusely crying and not understanding why at sixteen a room with my therapist, my teachers and staff would all band against me to say detrimental things and send me on my way. They called this treatment team. I have no shortage of horrifying stories. These people s only agenda of getting paid. Most of us there had experienced abuse and trauma before even attending this school and it only heightened those feelings. Please, do not send your child here. I know I said this previously but I am twenty five and I went there was I was sixteen and it still effects me today. Let that soak in. Their practices are cruel and this is not a therapeutic school it is an abusive prison.

Everything went so much better than expected. The family involvement was exactly what we all needed to heal together. Getting help for our daughter was an extremely difficult choice, but the path she was on was taking her deeper and deeper into a self destructive lifestyle. Thank God we got help when we did. thanks to everyone who worked with our family.

As some of the experiences are mentally blocked out I still wake up in that bunk bed. My heart drops every time. I was left there thinking we were just visiting. We were forced to do work hours in 95 degree weather. I'm pretty sure I broke my foot and I was on crutches for weeks and they were too small. No doctor. If your brother or grandfather died while in there we weren't aloud to go home for the funeral. They refused to let me have contact with my mother for the first 3 months and even that was monitered. #breakingcodesilence

I was a student and it was the worst 15 months of my life. Never send your child here. It doesnt help

Horrible horrible place. Low staff, junk food everyday, corrupt therapists. It is a business and all they care for is money.

I attended CCA and it was the worst experience of my life. Staff is very rude, unsympathetic, unforgiving and they treat you like a slave. The teachers and "education" are a joke. There are so many rules, it makes your head spin. This is a cruel, unjust place to send any girl.

This is a wonderful resource for girls who need help outside of the home/school structure. I was impressed by their clinical staff and their overall approach to helping struggling girls. I highly recommend touring and talking with the students if you need such help.

If this therapeutic boarding school is anything like Copper Canyon Academy which used to exist in this location, do not send your adolescent to this corrupt school.

Notice all of the positive reviews are from either parents, people who are affiliated with the place... and SUPRISE!!!!! a 5 star review from the owner. All of the bad reviews are from the poor girls that were shipped to this hell. I went to this school before it changed it's name... I was never the same. Think of living through the book 1984 - and your parents paying around $100,000 for it. The only positive thing I can say is that it taught me to be more introspective about myself and others' problems. Other than that it was bar none one of the most horrible experiences of my life. I'm in my thirties now and I still have nightmares sometimes.

My daughter spent 10 months, in Copper Canyon Academy (former name of this academy) during years 2005-2006, the referring license psychologist-educational consultant stated she had no doubt the "wilderness program" and subsequent "behavior modification boarding school" would cure her addiction and help the mental illness she was suffering from. Both treatment programs owned by Aspen Academy, work with the psychologist (who took $10,000 just to set up the referrals), and all of them require large sums of money up front. These organizations exists to profit from your wounds. I was desperate and broken by my daughter's addiction. When the funds ran out, $100,000 spent for treatment, the facility abruptly discharged her home. My daughter was back on the streets in a month, where she found her addiction worsened to heroin. Our lives have never been the same. Save your money. Help your child but don't get duped by these people - they have no magical cure for addiction. No amount of money will change your child.

I attended Sedona sky academy in 2018 and it was the Worst 9 months of my life. ALL THEY WANT IS YOUR MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Plz plz plz if you care about your daughter at all in the slightest do not send your daughter here.

Sedona Sky Academy serves middle school girls 11-14 years of age and high school girls 14-17 years of age and provides high-quality, evidence-based clinical services, top-notch college preparatory academics with a unique, full array of expressive, performing and experiential arts, all within a warm, nurturing and healthy living environment. Sedona Sky utilizes specific trauma informed, experiential therapy designed to address attachment and trauma issues. We believe in meeting our students where they are , helping them heal the past and rebuild new and healthy pathways. SSA believes each student is unique, powerful and has a bright future. Most of all, we believe in the healing power of reconnecting families.

We researched therapeutic schools for our daughter for some time as we knew she needed help we couldn't provide at home. We contacted several schools a year or so ago to start the research, but we weren't sure what was the right decision since we couldn't afford to visit each school and none were really speaking to us. Later that year things went down hill with our daughter rapidly and we were about to make a choice when my sister found one that she said was so beautiful, and so peaceful To our surprise it was one that we had looked at before but didn't contact because the website made it seem small and out in the middle of the desert. When we went back to the website it had changed to where we could really visualize what it would be like there for our daughter, the photos, and the video interviews of the therapists really spoke to us, so we scheduled a tour of Sedona and another two in Utah. Long story short, we made the visit and everything was so familiar and like we saw and expected in contrast to the other schools which were nice, but disappointing. The experience was so good for our daughter. She's coming out of her shell, and facing the problems she's trying to overcome with her therapist and her new friends at Sedona. We are so happy we found such a place!

Sedona Sky is a fantastic program that specializes in equine therapy and experiential therapy. Their boarding school employs a good staff of instructors and therapists. I will continue to refer troubled teen girls to this program.