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Boarding School for Troubled Girls in West Virginia

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Greenbrier Academy:
Located in the town of Pence Springs, in the tranquil area of south-eastern West Virginia, Greenbrier Academy is a therapeutic boarding school for girls ages 13-18. Our privately owned, wooded areas provide the perfect, quiet setting for our residential students to focus on healing. Over the past few years, 100% of our graduating seniors have matriculated to institutes of higher learning.

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Accreditation:

We are fully licensed by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services and fully accredited by the North Central Association of Schools and Colleges. 

Our Students:
Our students may face a spectrum of issues including: anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, ADD/ADHD, substance abuse, impulsiveness, emotional deregulation, and anger and/or attachment issues.

Other issues may be loneliness, meaninglessness, and confusion about their place in the world.

Our Philosophy:
We are healthy when we can create and maintain positive, virtuous relationships.

Strong Relationality is the psychological model that we use to facilitate that philosophy, and we have found it to be the most effective path to creating desire and resources for deep, lasting change.

Why Choose Greenbrier Academy?


-  Positive Outlook           
Our experience is that all of our students also come with a great skill set of positive attributes, and simply need the resources to overcome the obstacles keeping them from realizing their potential.

-  Rigorous Academic Curriculum  
We have carefully constructed a rigorous curriculum that incorporates flexibility and contextual learning.

-  Therapeutic Philosophy
Our philosophy inspires us to be passionately committed to unconditionally love your daughter, keep her safe, help her be empathic and responsible, and find a meaningful purpose in life while serving others.

Therapeutic Boarding School for Girls ages 13-18:


- We place equal emphasis on both therapy and academic education.

- Minimum length of stay of 12 months, and many of our students have chosen to stay 2-4 years or more.

- Academic courses focus on subjects that are necessary to receive a high school diploma and to be prepared for college.

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Address: Pence Springs, Summers County, West Virginia 24962, USA
Some interested visitors submitting program inquiries to our school up to 2023-01-01 were from:

Spencer WV; waldorf,MD; and more.
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