As the founder and owner of Greenbrier Academy for Girls in West Virginia, L. Jay Mitchell guides an institution focused on the academic and therapeutic needs of teen girls. L. Jay Mitchell’s theories regarding distorted perceptions of self-identity and personal experience as behavioral and mental-health issues’ root cause inform Greenbrier Academy’s therapeutic approach to enabling healing and emotional well-being.
One common aspect among Greenbrier Academy enrollees is that they experience challenges with maintaining healthy relationships and exhibit signs of rebellion, depression, anxiety, or body dysmorphia. The school bases treatment on the concept that these are symptoms of subconscious beliefs that are forged during intense relational experiences. Such beliefs encompass false perceptions of self-identify and come from misinterpretations of what those experiences mean. The interpretations become neurologically imprinted and thereby resistant to efforts to change them.
