Vive Adolescent Care is a residential mental health treatment center in St. George, Utah, built specifically for teenagers ages 12 to 17 who are navigating 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 tailored to 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 range 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.
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.
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.