Oesterlen Services for Youth

Oesterlen Services for Youth provided services from birth through the transition into adulthood, promoting their mental, social, physical and spiritual well-being. Oesterlen address the changing needs of children, yourth, and adultis statewide with community counseling, life skills center, Lutheran Disaster Response, residential treatment center, service coodination, treatment foster care.

Yoga for trauma, art and movement therapy, ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy), thera-play, play therapy, and several evidence-based interventions are available, including:

• Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy

• Child-centered play therapy

• Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)

• Preschool PTSD treatment

• Children with problematic sexual behavior cognitive behavioral treatment program

• Child-parent psychotherapy

• Parent-child interaction therapy

• Stepped care trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy

• Alternatives for family: A cognitive behavioral therapy

• Child and family traumatic stress intervention

• Strengthening family coping resources

• Trauma systems therapy

• Cognitive behavioral intervention for trauma in schools

• Horticultural and/or gardening therapy

• Adventure/outdoor/nature-based therapy

• Dyadic Development Psychotherapy (DDP)