Know That You're Not Alone
If you’ve found yourself Googling “summer camp for teen girls with anxiety or depression” or “mental health summer camps for teen girls,” you’re not alone. What's more, you’ve found yourself in the right place. Many of the parents we work with are looking for a program that strikes the perfect balance: something that supports their daughter’s mental health without being a full-on clinical program. For example, maybe your teen struggles with:
- Anxiety or depression
- Low self-esteem or social isolation
- Technology or phone addiction
- A recent life disruption — like changing schools, friendship shifts, or a tough year
- ADHD or executive functioning challenges
- General mental health imbalance
What you want is a short-term, structured program that’s emotionally safe, uplifting, growth-oriented, and — let’s be honest — actually fun. Understandably, you want her to gain confidence, find community, and come home with more direction and more joy. Welcome to Rooted Life Adventures.
How We Build Confidence Through Experiential Learning
Our 6-week Costa Rica Summer Program for Teen Girls (Ages 14–17) is designed to create real, lasting growth. Not through lectures or worksheets, but through immersive, hands-on, confidence-building experiences that fosters overall positive mental wellbeing. Therefore every week is built around a purposeful structure:
- Internship Experience: Students teach English as a Second Language at a local elementary school, play soccer with kids, and receive a certificate of completion — real experience, real impact.
- Spanish Language Immersion: 30+ hours of casual, conversational Spanish with local staff and during cultural outings — no prior experience required.
- Life Skills in Action: Shared living means learning to plan meals, cook, clean, grocery shop, budget, and manage roommate dynamics.
- Volunteer Project: 30 hours of service toward a meaningful legacy project in the local community.
Moreover, we don’t just “talk about” life skills — we live them. Most importantly, our students go home with stories, skills, and self-worth.
Therapeutic Support That’s Built Into Every Day
This is not a clinical program — and we don’t want it to be. But we do provide robust wellness and coaching support that supports mental health, including:
- A live-in therapeutic coach onsite 24/7 for in-the-moment guidance and group dynamics
- A personalized coaching and care plan developed in collaboration with your teen’s at-home therapist
- Weekly 1:1 coaching sessions for each participant
- Wellness and psychoeducational workshops throughout the program
- Optional telehealth sessions with home therapists
- A weekly parent support call to help you stay involved and supported
- An end-of-program summary written for each student’s home team
- We ensure every student feels seen, supported, and celebrated — not pathologized. After all, this is a strengths-based, growth-focused experience.
Our Model: Take the Tools That Work and Make Them FUN
We’re not here to fix your teen. In fact, we’re here to remind her how powerful, capable, and joyful she can be. Therefore, we take the therapeutic tools that work — routine, connection, reflection, responsibility, structure — and we infuse them with summer camp energy and slumber party vibes. For instance:
- 🌊 Surf lessons & white-water rafting
- 🎪 Flying trapeze & jungle hikes with monkeys
- 💃 Paint fights & dance parties
- 🍿 Pajama karaoke nights & movie marathons
- 💅 Spa nights & bracelet making
- 🌺 Cultural excursions to chocolate, dairy, and coffee farms
- 🌴 National Park hikes to see sloths, toucans, and monkeys
- 💦 Glow-in-the-dark pool parties
Lastly, this is a summer camp where mental health support is woven in — not stuck on. SPecifically, where teens grow because they’re having fun, not in spite of it.
Learn more or enroll now at rootedlifeadventures.com or email us directly at info@rootedlifeadventures.com.
Let’s make this the summer your daughter finally feels like herself again — with confidence and community. In particular, with just the right amount of support.
