Working with adolescents.
A practice that meets young people where they are, and respects the family at the table.
A different shape of conversation.
Easton works one-to-one with adolescents from roughly age twelve through the early college years. The work isn’t therapy and it isn’t tutoring — it sits in the space alongside both, focused on how a young person carries the body, time, and attention through a week.
Sessions are private, unhurried, and held outdoors when the weather allows. There is no curriculum and no homework. There is a steady cadence: a check-in, a piece of practice that belongs to the week, and a return.
Parents are kept in the loop through a separate parent-facing rhythm — never through reading the young person’s notes. Trust is the unit of work.
Three months. Parent and child, in parallel.
The Family Roots Program is a twelve-week engagement built for families navigating a hard season together — a transition, a quiet pattern that won’t resolve, a young person who needs more than the household alone can hold.
Sessions interleave: a weekly hour with the young person, a parallel hour with one or both parents, and a monthly family session that brings everyone to the same table. The shape is the same for every family; the conversation is not.
Twelve weeks
Weekly youth + weekly parent, monthly together
In-person in Paradise Valley; virtual where it serves
By private referral & conversation
The desert as the third teacher.
Two or three times a year, Easton holds short retreats for small groups of young people in the McDowells and on private land made available by long-time clients. Two to four nights, six to eight participants, no phones.
The structure is simple: a daily walk, shared meals, a morning practice, an evening circle. The aim is not novelty or adrenaline — it is to give a young person a few days of unbroken attention to their own life, in a setting where silence is welcome.
Retreats are published a season at a time on the gatherings page.
If your family is in a season that needs something steady, begin a conversation.
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