Vive Adolescent Care is a residential mental health treatment center in St. George, Utah, built specifically for teenagers ages 12 to 17 who are facing serious emotional, behavioral, and psychiatric challenges. Founded in 2018, the program offers a structured, secure environment where adolescents can step away from daily pressures and begin to stabilize while a multidisciplinary clinical team works alongside their families.
The center positions itself as a higher level of support than weekly outpatient therapy. Many of the teens who arrive at Vive have already tried outpatient counseling or short inpatient hospital stays without finding lasting traction. Vive's stated model centers on relationship-based, trauma-informed care, with each treatment plan built around a young person's clinical history, family dynamics, and longer-term goals rather than a single fixed protocol.
What Vive Adolescent Care treats
According to the company, its clinical program addresses a broad set of adolescent mental health conditions, including:
- Trauma and PTSD: helping teens process past traumatic events affecting daily functioning and relationships.
- Depression and mood disorders: supporting young people living with clinical depression, bipolar disorder, and related conditions.
- Anxiety disorders: addressing generalized anxiety, panic, OCD, and social anxiety using approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based work.
- Self-harm and suicidal ideation: providing stabilization and longer-term therapeutic support for teens in crisis.
- Attachment and family dynamics: rebuilding communication through structured family therapy and parent coaching.
- Neurodivergent and co-occurring diagnoses: working with autism spectrum profiles, ADHD, and related needs, particularly alongside mood or behavioral concerns.
Rather than treat any one of these in isolation, the program looks at how they overlap in a single teen, since trauma, anxiety, and family strain often feed one another.
The treatment model
Vive describes a multidisciplinary team of licensed therapists, psychiatrists, nurses, and direct-care staff coordinating each adolescent's care. The program combines individual therapy several times a week, daily group therapy, and family systems work that brings parents and guardians directly into the process through regular sessions and on-site family intensives.
A full-time psychiatric team handles evaluations and medication management, while accredited academic programming aims to keep students from falling behind in school during treatment. Experiential and recreational therapies, including art, yoga, fitness, and outdoor activities, round out the daily structure.
Who Vive serves
The center draws families from across the Western United States, including Utah, California, Idaho, Arizona, and Nevada. It states that it is equipped to work with higher-acuity cases, including teens experiencing severe anxiety, persistent depression, emotional dysregulation, or who have not responded to more traditional approaches.
Because families often travel a long way to enroll a teen, the program is built to bring parents into treatment from a distance, with scheduled family sessions and intensives that keep the home environment connected to the work happening on site.
Leadership
Clinical Director Stuart Squires, a social worker who has spent roughly two decades in adolescent mental health, leads the clinical program. For a closer look at how the model works in practice, see our feature: How Vive Adolescent Care supports teens facing mental health struggles.
Families and referring professionals can learn more about admissions and treatment philosophy at the company's website, vivetreatment.com.
Press and media
Families and referring professionals can learn more about admissions, the clinical program, and the staff through Vive's official website at vivetreatment.com. Vive is a member program listed in the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP) directory, which documents its St. George location, age range served, and Joint Commission accreditation.
Frequently asked questions
Who does Vive Adolescent Care serve?
Vive serves teenagers ages 12 to 17 facing serious emotional, behavioral, and psychiatric challenges, drawing families from across the Western United States.
Where is Vive Adolescent Care located?
The center is in St. George, Utah, and was founded in 2018 as a residential program for adolescents.
How is Vive different from outpatient therapy?
It offers a higher level of support than weekly counseling. Teens live on site in a structured, secure setting with a multidisciplinary clinical team, often after outpatient care or short hospital stays did not produce lasting progress.
How are families involved in treatment?
Family systems work is built into the model through regular sessions, parent coaching, and on-site family intensives, so parents and guardians take part in the process even when they live far away.
What kinds of therapy does the program use?
The program combines individual therapy, daily group therapy, psychiatric evaluation and medication management, accredited academics, and experiential therapies such as art, yoga, fitness, and outdoor activities.