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Gateway Academy Salt Lake City Utah
Anonymous:
Our Team
Part of Gateway’s uniqueness, flexibility and commitment to excellence stems from the fact that Gateway continues to be operated and directed by its founders: Melissa Hickman, Julie Barbero, Julie Brown, M. Michelle Gourley and Karen Flynn. These owners have served youth in need for over 20 years. Gateway’s continuing development as a state-of-the-art treatment provider is of paramount importance to the owners and the committed staff they have assembled. Gateway’s staff is highly trained, dedicated, experienced and fully licensed and/or certified. Additionally, Gateway has an onsite Board Certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists who meet with each youth one to four times per month as needed, as well as onsite Registered Nurses.
The entire treatment team meets and reviews each youth’s progress every week in order to tailor treatment interventions to each youth’s individual needs and abilities. The clinical and medical teams meet an additional time each week to review every youth’s progress and treatment objectives.
Administrative Team
Julie Brown, LCSW
Administrative Director and Co-Owner
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker
- 20 years adolescent Residential Treatment experience
- Program Manager over 6 adolescent residential mental health units
- Adolescent clinician
- Substance abuse program developer/ therapist
- Gender-specific trainer/clinician
- Behavior de-escalation (MANDT) trainer
- School Liaison for youth residential treatment center
- Adjunct Faculty/Clinical Supervisor University of Utah and Westminster College
Claudia Reese, SSW, M.Ed.
Program Administer
- Educational Counselor and Social Worker
- 9 years adolescent Residential Treatment experience
- 2 years educational counseling experience
- Specialized sensitivity training for families and youth
- Gender specific training
- Supervised Individual Education Plan (IEP) conferences
- Student Educational Occupational Planning (SEOP’s)
- Experience in high school accreditation review process
Clinical Team
Julie Barbero, LCSW
Clinical Director and Co-Owner
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker
- 17 years adolescent Residential Treatment experience
- Specializes in treating adolescents and their families
- Gender-specific clinician/trainer
- Adolescent substance abuse therapist
- Past Director over 3 adolescent psychiatric hospital units
- Trainer in best practice guidelines and effective treatment strategies
- Adjunct faculty/Clinical Supervisor University of Utah graduate students
Susan M. Curtis, LPC
Primary Therapist
- Masters in counseling psychology
- Licensed Professional Counselor
- Residential Clinician
- 11 years adolescent treatment experience
- 5 years adolescent Residential Treatment experience
- Expertise in treating adolescent trauma, substance abuse, teen parenting and independent living issues
- Gender-specific clinician
- Worked on state wide research project focused on adolescent suicide
Mark X. Dunn, LSAC, CPC-I
Primary Therapist
- Licensed Substance Abuse Counselor
- Certified Drug and Alcohol Abuse Counselor
- 17 years adolescent Residential Treatment experience
- Expertise in working with adolescent dynamics and family systems
- Developer of addictions treatment program based on adolescent
developmental milestones
- Developer of programming, policy, research and development of adolescent residential treatment center
- Masters in Counseling
- BA in Psychology
Emily Faber, MSW, CSW
Primary Therapist
- Masters in Social Work
- Clinical Social Worker
- 4 years adolescent Wilderness treatment experience
- 3 years Residential Treatment center experience
- Expertise in treating adolescents and their families
- Outreach Counselor with at-risk families and youth
- Counselor and Case Manager for adults with developmental disability
- Structured Studies in India focused on the self-soothing techniques of
meditation and yoga
Jeffery R. Hintze, Ph.D, LPC
Primary Therapist
- Masters in Counseling Psychology
- Doctorate in General Psychology
- Licensed Professional Counselor
- 20 years experience working with adolescents
- Adolescent Substance Abuse Therapist
- Expertise in treating adolescents and their families with substance abuse problems
- Expertise in treating adolescents with depression, anxiety, oppositional defiance, and dual diagnoses
- Expertise in working with parent-child relationship issues
- Previously an Executive Director for a residential treatment facility
- Member of psychological Chi Sigma Lota honor society
Stokes Smith, LSAC, MSW Intern
Substance Abuse Counselor
- Licensed Substance Abuse Counselor
- Master of Social Work Intern
- 15 years adolescent Wilderness/Residential Treatment experience
- Implemented Substance Abuse counseling component for Residential
Treatment
- Expertise in treating adolescents and their families in Substance Abuse
- Residential Treatment Line Staff/Substance Abuse Counselor
- Wilderness Guide Counselor
- Positive Control Systems Instructor
- Institute of Change PRN Clinician
- Inn Care PRN Clinician
- Bachelors of Social Work
Clinical Consultation and Assessment Team
M. Michelle Gourley, MFT, LCSW, JD
Assessment and Consultation Director and Co-Owner
- Masters in Social Work, Masters in Marriage &Family Therapy, Juris Doctorate
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker
- 22 years Residential Treatment experience
- Specializes in treating adolescents and their families
- Developer, Director and clinician for Residential Treatment of youth who engage in sexual misconduct
- Forensic evaluator and assessor for the State of Utah Judiciary
- National and State Certification as sex-specific clinician
- National Trainer/Consultant juvenile sex-specific therapy, sex abuse,
trauma and adolescent developmental treatment techniques
- Consultant/Clinician for an adolescent day treatment substance abuse
program
- Expertise in structured experiential and psychodrama therapy techniques
- Adjunct Faculty/Clinical Supervisor Brigham Young University and University of Utah graduate students
- Attorney specializing in juvenile, family and mental health law
Academic Team
Woodland Hills School www.woodland-hills.com
Tara Sinquefield, Program Director
Jamie Brough, SPED Coordinator
Joyce Hansen, Principal
- Expertise in academic curriculum tailored to individual needs/learning styles
- Integrates scholastic performance with character development
- Creates structured programs for continual educational support and guidance
- Emphasizes improved self-esteem, organization skills and heightened
self-awareness
- Encourages independent thinking and self-reliance
- Examines underlying issues that interfere with academic performance
Outdoor Recreation Team
Tom Zimmer, MS
Outdoor Recreation Manager
- Master of Science in Recreation
- Ph.D. Candidate
- 10 years experience instructing/guiding mountaineering adventures,
whitewater rafting, mountain biking, skiing, kayaking, backcountry skiing
- Emergency Medical Technician
- Member Ski Patrol
- Certified in Avalanche 1 and 2 training
- Certified in Swift Water Rescue
- Certified in CPR
Psychiatric / Medical Team
Arden L. Weintraub, M.D.
Medical Director
- Board Certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
- 20 years experience practicing child and adolescent psychiatry
- 18 years of experience treating troubled youth in residential settings
- Graduated from the University of Utah School of Medicine in 1981
- Internship in Pediatrics
- Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Utah
and Primary Children’s Medical Center
- Clinical instructor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Utah School of Medicine
- Honored for teacher of the year award for 2001-2002 at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Rachel Weir, M.D.
Associate Medical Director
- Board Certified in General Psychiatry
- Board Eligible in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Medical Degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin
- Completed residency training in General Psychiatry at the University of Utah
- Completed fellowship training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the
University of Utah
- Served as Chief Resident for General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry programs
- Honored with the Outstanding Resident Service Award and Outstanding Senior Resident Award during residency training
Judy McCormick, RN
Registered Nurse
- 18 years of pediatric, adolescent, psychiatric nursing experience
- Nurse Manager for children’s unit
- Specialty in Infection Control and Diseases Nursing
- Medical surgery experience
RaeAnna Kirk, RN, BSN
Registered Nurse
- 10 years of psychiatric, pediatric and home health nursing experience
- Experienced in adolescent psychiatry
- Nursing Director for residential treatment facility
Admissions Team
Melissa Hickman, LCSW
Admissions Director and Co- Owner
- 20 years combined Residential Treatment, private therapist experience
- Specializes in treating adolescents and their families
- Clinical director of adolescent treatment program
- Therapist in a wilderness program
- Substance abuse therapist for out-patient adolescent program
- Developer/Clinician of residential program for youth completing wilderness
Kathryn Ellison, BS
Admissions Assistant
- Bachelor in Family Science
- Supervisor for Residential Treatment center
- Staff for Residential Treatment center
- Group Facilitator with adolescents
- Worked in Romanian orphanage with special needs children
Business and Finance Team
Karen Flynn, JD
Business Director and Co-Owner
- 16 years licensed member of the Utah State Bar
- Director of the Office of Administrative Hearings, Department of Human Services, State of Utah
- Experienced in office budgeting, business practices and policies and staffing
- Administrative Law Judge, Department of Human Services, State of Utah, specializing in family law and adolescent issues
- Managing Attorney, the Guardian Ad Litem’s Office, State of Utah, representing adolescents within the jurisdiction of the Utah Courts
- Developed Utah Juvenile Court substance abuse prevention and treatment model
- Practicing Attorney with national firms based in Philadelphia and California, specializing in business litigation, transactions and financing
- Law Clerk, U.S. Federal District Courts, State of Utah
Patricia Benn
Financial Manager
- Masters of Organization Behavior
- Bachelors of Sociology
- Master Program Licensed Professional Counselor
- Trainer and developer for national finance company
- Specializing in financial organizational and implementation for business entities
- Experienced in office budgeting, business practices/policies, and staffing
Anonymous:
If the program is located in Utah, it is probably fucked up. Utah has to be the epicenter of the world for fucked up boarding schools.
glaceau:
Gateway Academy charges $10,000 per month and has barely qualified people, some of whom appear not to be licensed. As programs go, it probably looks the best, but figure your kid is going to spend 99% of his time with ski bums who are just there for the minimum wage job while they ski.
As far as any real therapy going on, you have to be joking. It is a Gulag, just like all the other Gulags.
Lain the Odd:
Gateway survivor here... I can basically confirm everything being said. 'Staff' at Gateway have pretty much no training whatsoever, my therapist, one Jeff Hintze, was fired for reasons unknown to me (but.. Fired. From a job as a program therapist. You have to try pretty hard for that), et al. It was standard program fare, more or less. They were VERY heavy on the 1984 aspects - largely in turning 'students' against each other.. the only way to advance was to 'hold boundaries', which was a not-so-nice way of saying play Thought Police.
A major note I think might be worth pointing out, though, is that they were also very much offenders of the program tendency to take people with completely unrelated problems (or none at all) and put them in the same mold. The bit about 'specialized groups' is bullshit. Their groups basically consisted of daily indoctrination (or, if there was any dirt they could use, bringing up private problems to be attacked by the more thoroughly brainwashed kids, another characteristic tactic). But getting to the point... all the references to the 'young men' in their very Newspeak descriptor?
I'm a transitioning MtF transsexual.
Part of the plan as prescribed by my none too supportive parents seemed to be to use this as an opportunity to shit on me whenever possible. I was, as if being there wasn't alienating enough, forced to go by my birth name, threatened upon trying to even note that hey-there's-a-mistake-here and then accused of 'isolating' when I got more depressed than I'd already been as a result. Of course, it was my fault for being transsexual in the first place.
I'd prefer not to dredge up too much more.. I'm still trying to block out the memories. But in the hopes that I can be of some help... I noticed the reference to a kid from Canada. He was a friend of mine, the other least-brainwashed there... I remember that he was trying to get in touch with an embassy, as under Canadian law he was of age and couldn't be held there - not that they cared, of course. I don't know if what I remember about him would be enough to help if someone's trying to find him, but drop me a line if so. I'll do whatever I can.
Anyway, um.. yeah, that's Gateway in a nutshell. Standard NATSAP torture facility with a flair for dragging stays out to milk more money and incompetent staffers with control issues. Any other questions, i'll try to answer them as they come.
Cheers,
Lain
Che Gookin:
You are gonna love meeting Try Another Castle and welcome to fornits.
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