About Muir Wood Teen Treatment

Muir Wood Teen Treatment emerged from the founding team’s vision to advocate for the underserved and began as a specialized program dedicated to boys adolescent treatment in northern California. Drawing from over three decades of experience in mental health and substance use treatment, that team envisioned a program that would address the unique challenges faced by teens and their families. More than a decade since its founding, Muir Wood stands as a testament to that original vision, providing residential and outpatient treatment programming specifically for teen boys and girls experiencing mental health and substance use issues.

Muir Wood operates residential treatment campuses across Petaluma, Penngrove, Clovis, and Riverside, California, and provides intensive outpatient services in our founding city of Petaluma, accommodating nearly 100 teens state-wide.

Meet the Muir Wood Teen Treatment leadership team

With a compassionate staff who emphasize kindness and compassion over confrontation and control, Muir Wood helps teens thrive in an increasingly complex world. We guide our young clients and their loved ones through mental health and substance use challenges. Our work aims to facilitate emotional self-regulation, proactive health management, and personal growth.

In comfortable, supervised, and structured environments, teens explore and process sensitive issues and learn to manage mental health and substance use disorders. The Muir Wood environment fosters strong peer relationships essential for recovery, many of which develop into enduring friendships. Our full-time psychiatrists and nursing team enhance our program’s ability to accurately assess and diagnose client conditions, continuously adapt treatment plans, and manage medications when applicable.

Learn more about the conditions we treat

Our residential treatment programs integrate many evidence-based clinical modalities and support programs, including:

• Individual therapy
• Group therapy
• Family therapy
• Adolescent psychiatry
• Nursing support
• Multiple psychotherapeutic approaches
• Experiential therapies
• Academic support
• Aftercare programming for parents and teens

Family involvement is a critical component in Muir Wood’s programming. Participation in weekly family education, counseling, and therapeutic sessions is required. Learn more here.

We integrate academic support into treatment through the Muir Wood Learning Centers—on-campus supplemental education programs for grades 7 to 12. Accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), our programs employ experienced, credentialed educational professionals. We offer flexible academic options that allow our teen clients to maintain continuity with their home schools while they focus on healing. For clients who have finished high school or are not currently enrolled, we can provide career choice support, education in music and the arts, or support preparing for college, community college, or trade school admission.

Muir Wood is accredited by The Joint Commission, long considered the gold standard in healthcare provider accreditation.

We’re also committed to making teen substance use and mental health treatment accessible to as many families as is possible. We strive to remove financial barriers to quality care by being an in-network provider for most major insurance companies.