Gretchen, I spoke with Dr. He believes this might help you learn to reduce problem behaviors and to learn some coping strategies that would avoid having your child out of your care anymore than is necessary. Here's some information from our site about what a healing intensive entails. Good luck, I'll be on the lookout for ways to help you find a treatment center in Ohio in my searches on-line. Some notes from Dr. Mehl-Madrona's webpage to help you better understand intensives.
Some people wish to travel from a distance to work intensively on a health problem.
To facilitate this, I have developed a program for such intensive work. My philosophy for this program has been inspired by the study of traditional healers of Native North America. When Europeans arrived in North America, Native people of this continent were a healthy lot. Plagues and epidemics from Europe soon changed that, but do not mitigate against the effectiveness of Native American methods for attaining long-term survival and the avoiding chronic disease. Conventional psychotherapies have ignored the potential utility of ceremony and ritual as treatment.