At THE STAGES the student naturally becomes the person ultimately responsible for his/her own treatment. This is empowering.

In THE TEN STAGES the student naturally becomes the person ultimately responsible for his/her own treatment. 


 This is empowering. When life reminds him/her, in a healthy, nurturing, and firm way, that the power of ultimately responsibility is his, he experiences three things: the ultimate healthy pressure within himself to self-reflect; the ultimate inner motivation to take his own life seriously, and: the impetus to make better decisions. 

 This might be terrifying for a time, especially if he feels out of control and has a childhood history lacking in healthy, nurturing models and rife with inappropriate power dynamics with adults, but here the guides will help him.They have done this before, they work from their own personal experience. Thus, when he decides who he wants to work for him/her and what kind of help he/her wants — if any — he has to engage his own critical faculties, and thus he takes an inevitable step toward the maturity and independence necessary for his/her healing and his/her life.Our aim is autonomy at the Stages or perhaps in Stages