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By: Melissa Geise & Kendra Schaffer – Homestead Mentors  The Homestead in Klamath Falls offers students a softer transition and is a great way to shift from the wilderness to Dragonfly.  Students have an opportunity to learn more about gardening, cooking, and caring for the farm and animals.  We recently asked two of our farm mentors to…

The Dragonfly Homestead is a thirty-acre ranch outside Klamath Falls that offers a break from life in town and provides young adults an opportunity to be more engaged in farm work where they can immerse themselves in gardening, work on maintenance projects, cook healthy meals, attend group therapy, and develop relationships with their peers and…

By: Nick Wagenseller, MA, LPC-I Primary Therapist My father, who has been a practicing psychoanalyst for over 45 years, used to tell me, “emotions are not efficient.”  Productivity and mental health issues are somewhat paradoxical.  Part of the challenge with working through depression, anxiety, or PTSD, is that an individual’s emotional experience has been resisted, suppressed, or…

Primary Therapist, Casey Sims works with young adult students at our Ashland campus.  Here is her reflection highlighting the caseload trip to Mammoth Lakes, California.  By: Casey Sims, MSW, CSWA As many of you know, Dragonfly Transitions is situated in an area with endless access to the great outdoors. Due to the extreme wildfires that occurred…

Every September, Dragonfly young adult students prepare to embark on an adventure of a lifetime! Each of the respective treatment teams comprised of the therapist, mentors, and the students on their caseload go on separate trips to different locations.  This year, three groups set out for Olympic, Yosemite & Yellowstone National Park! Therapist staffed trips…