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WHAT WE DO
BODA Therapy offers a new approach for preteens, adolescents, young adults, and families. Rooted in accessibility, engagement, and accountability, we facilitate experiential therapy and coaching through familiar, enjoyable activities that extend beyond traditional hour-long office sessions. We provide a structured accountability program to prevent backsliding and reinforce progress. We also design customized 3-to-5-night retreats in the Catskills, blending immersive outdoor experiences with therapy that is dynamic, meaningful, and often enjoyable.
BODA Therapy aims to take clients outdoors, where exposure to nature has been clinically proven to improve mood, enhance concentration, and reduce stress. We strive to make therapy enjoyable while creating a blueprint for maintaining long-term well-being. When therapy becomes enjoyable, clients are more engaged and more invested in their own growth.
BODA Therapy aims to take clients outdoors, where exposure to nature has been clinically proven to improve mood, enhance concentration, and reduce stress. We strive to make therapy enjoyable while creating a blueprint for maintaining long-term well-being. When therapy becomes enjoyable, clients are more engaged and more invested in their own growth.
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OUR SERVICES
Our clients come to us because they are often experiencing a disruption to daily life or a shift in typical functioning. These changes may include:
BODA Therapy and Coaching
We help our clients who are experiencing a shift from their usual functioning or a disruption to their everyday lives. We adhere to the following tenets:
BODA Retreats
Whether someone needs extra support during a difficult time or wants to build and practice new skills, BODA’s customized retreats are another powerful tool to maximize their well-being. Retreats can also serve as a valuable assessment tool to help providers determine whether a client requires a higher or lower level of care.
Retreats are carefully curated and can be done one-on-one, with small groups of like-minded individuals or with families.
Sometimes clients aren’t fully aware of their own habits and daily practices that are vital to preventing backsliding and supporting progress. BODA Therapy offers customized backsliding-prevention tools to help clients maintain the gains they’ve achieved.
- Absences from class, school, or work; declining academic or work performance
- Withdrawing from school or work, family, friends, or social activities
- Antisocial or uncommunicative behavior
- Difficulty completing daily self-care tasks (e.g., getting out of bed, showering, grooming)
- Unresolved conflict in family system and/or tense family dynamics
- Increased agitation or decreased frustration tolerance
- Oppositional or defiant behavior
- Paranoia
- Reliance on ineffective or maladaptive coping strategies
- Shifts in mood and behavior
- Poor judgment and/or risk-taking behavior
- Verbal or physical aggression toward self or others
- Limited insight or self-awareness
BODA Therapy and Coaching
We help our clients who are experiencing a shift from their usual functioning or a disruption to their everyday lives. We adhere to the following tenets:
- We are skills-based and focus on our clients’ strengths to optimize growth.
- We use a combination of modalities: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), In-Action Group Psychotherapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Collaborative Problem Solving, as well as others.
- We aim to make both coaching and therapy experiential and often encourage clients to participate in outdoor sessions.
- We are family-centric.
- We collaborate with a client’s established treatment team (psychiatrist, nurse practitioner, pharmacologist, school counselor, educational consultant) to create a comprehensive treatment plan that meets the client’s needs.
- In cases where a client is stepping down from a higher level of care (e.g., residential treatment center, wilderness program), we work with clients, their families, and other treatment providers to create and implement a robust treatment plan.
BODA Retreats
Whether someone needs extra support during a difficult time or wants to build and practice new skills, BODA’s customized retreats are another powerful tool to maximize their well-being. Retreats can also serve as a valuable assessment tool to help providers determine whether a client requires a higher or lower level of care.
Retreats are carefully curated and can be done one-on-one, with small groups of like-minded individuals or with families.
- Retreats are designed to integrate with and support ongoing therapy—not to interrupt or replace it.
- We coordinate closely with referring professionals before, during, and after a participant’s retreat, ensuring a smooth “handoff” back to the existing therapeutic provider(s).
- Retreats include activities such as hiking, biking, skiing and swimming, with nature providing the backdrop for a clinically rich experience. Outdoors, participants can be more present, less triggered, and free from distractions like electronic devices.
- Participants learn skills to tolerate distress, regulate emotions, and manage unhelpful thoughts and feelings. These skills are practiced in a fun, supportive, and engaging environment alongside like-minded peers.
- We strive to make therapy enjoyable while creating a blueprint for maintaining long-term well-being. When therapy becomes enjoyable, clients are more engaged and more invested in their own growth.
Sometimes clients aren’t fully aware of their own habits and daily practices that are vital to preventing backsliding and supporting progress. BODA Therapy offers customized backsliding-prevention tools to help clients maintain the gains they’ve achieved.
- We provide consistent accountability check-ins.
- We track daily self-care habits and the use of positive coping skills.
- We use wearable technology to track sleep and exercise.
- We use family sessions to objectively assess whether treatment goals are being met.
- We collaborate with outside treatment providers.
- We provide extended in-person sessions outside of traditional 9-5 office hours.
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THE BODA DIFFERENCE
We believe that clients often need more than just a weekly hour-long session in an office setting during a crisis period.
We believe that intensive therapeutic work does not need to
be anxiety-ridden, dread-filled hard work. Rather, it can be dynamic, engaging, and even enjoyable.
We believe that activity changes the dynamic of therapy. During one-on-one sessions when possible and during our immersive retreats, we take our clients out of environments where unhelpful patterns and triggers are usually created and place them into a familiar and enjoyable activity, outside in nature, where therapy occurs. Being outside in nature has been clinically proven to positively affect mood and concentration, and reduce stress overall.
We have learned that clients become more open and susceptible to making shifts in their thinking, learning new skills, and letting go of their unhelpful habits when they are outside, moving their bodies, learning new skills, and engaging in an immersive experience. While our clients engage in activities such as hiking, biking, or skiing, therapy occurs - seamlessly, effortlessly, and in some ways, unknowingly.
We believe that when therapy becomes fun, our clients become more engaged and more invested in their own work.
We believe accountability is key to preventing backsliding and maintaining long-term well-being.
We believe that intensive therapeutic work does not need to
be anxiety-ridden, dread-filled hard work. Rather, it can be dynamic, engaging, and even enjoyable.
We believe that activity changes the dynamic of therapy. During one-on-one sessions when possible and during our immersive retreats, we take our clients out of environments where unhelpful patterns and triggers are usually created and place them into a familiar and enjoyable activity, outside in nature, where therapy occurs. Being outside in nature has been clinically proven to positively affect mood and concentration, and reduce stress overall.
We have learned that clients become more open and susceptible to making shifts in their thinking, learning new skills, and letting go of their unhelpful habits when they are outside, moving their bodies, learning new skills, and engaging in an immersive experience. While our clients engage in activities such as hiking, biking, or skiing, therapy occurs - seamlessly, effortlessly, and in some ways, unknowingly.
We believe that when therapy becomes fun, our clients become more engaged and more invested in their own work.
We believe accountability is key to preventing backsliding and maintaining long-term well-being.
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BODA RETREATS
BODA takes clients outdoors and creates immersive therapeutic experiences. Being outdoors has not only been clinically proven to positively affect mood and concentration, but also reduces overall stress levels. Familiar and enjoyable activities in nature become the setting in which skills are created, used and practiced. Whether hiking up a mountain or skiing down one, BODA aims to identify and undo unhelpful patterns and triggers for clients and strives to make therapy enjoyable.
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My son would never do therapy in a traditional office setting. Boda Therapy and Andrew Tepper provided an
experiential, active and fun way for my son to work on himself.
BODA Therapy is not a one and done program, it’s a support system that makes sense. Thanks to Boda Therapy, my son has learned real coping skills and has the blueprint he needs for maintaining his well being. Boda Therapy is a life-saver.
-Sara
Giving our clients a comprehensive and accountable approach to therapy through immersive, non-disruptive, wrap-around experiences.
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