Failure To Launch Treatment

Is your son blind to his potential?

If so, you’ve come to the right place.

If you’re here, you may be wondering if your son struggles with failure to launch syndrome, sometimes known as Peter Pan syndrome or the “Boomerang Generation.” Failure to launch is a common issue among millennials, especially young men. Young men who experience failure to launch tend move back in with their parents after trying unsuccessfully to live independent. They struggle to get a job or to keep it. They failed out of college or are currently struggling with their classes, even though they may have done fine in high school. They may have intense anxiety about doing adult tasks such as socializing with peers, holding a job, or driving. These young adults are typically motivated to stay at have, have no direction, and are unsure about what to do with their life. They may seek to escape from their discomfort by playing video games or distracting themselves in the virtual, digital world in order the avoid their problems in the here an now. They seek to avoid uncomfortable conversations. All in all, they have failed to launch into adulthood like other young adults their age have. It isn’t that these young men who struggle aren’t smart or capable; they just struggle to make it on their own for one reason or another.

If this sounds like your son, don’t worry, you’re not alone!

Forte Strong Failure to Launch Treatment

Forte Strong is the nation’s premier life coaching, therapy, and independent living program for young men, dedicated to treating failure to launch syndrome and the variety of individual challenges that contribute to it. Among the challenges coaches and therapists have successfully treated are social anxiety, avoidant personality disorder, depression, impulsivity, defiance, ADHD, low self-esteem, technology and video game addiction and other dependencies that keep young men from launching successfully.

Advantages of a Dual Coaching & Therapeutic Approach

At Forte Strong’s treatment program, young men work with experienced coaches as they develop specific life skills and they also have the support of therapists to process difficult emotions and experiences that may be holding them back from enjoying full confidence in themselves and their ability to persevere through difficult and challenging situations. Students’ parents are also supported and educated through this process in our Parent Education Platform by experienced therapists and staff. Forte Strong is truly focused on the individual in treatment, while supporting their family as they adjust to the changes he’s making.

Learn Skills that Will Carry On

At Forte Strong, your son will learn a wide variety of skills that will be relevant for the rest of his life. These include both hard skills and soft skills. Your son will learn how to care for his home, including cooking, cleaning, and basic maintenance. He will also learn how to care for himself by planning and cooking healthy meals, establishing a basic hygiene routine, and learning the importance of physical fitness. Many young men that we help have never learned to budget either their time or their money, so that is a big focus. We also help men learn how to find a job and the basics of keeping a job, including setting goals and getting promoted.

Perhaps even more important that these physical skills are the soft skills that we teach. These skills help men overcome any challenges they may face in their life. Some of these skills are social skills, such as conflict resolution and effective communication. Some are emotional skills, such as anger management, stress management, and general emotion regulation. Some of our former failure to launch students have found the most value in learning skills such as leadership, self-confidence, and self-discipline. Our therapists and coaches work with each student to uncover which skills would be most helpful for them to develop and work with them every step of the way.

Celebrate Successes

A huge part of success is the belief that success is possible. Forte Strong puts great emphasis on these small but positive steps your son will take towards independence to help nurture that belief. A win, no matter how small, is empowering and enough seemingly small wins add up to HUGE success. That’s why we make sure to celebrate all of these small wins for each of our students. This attitude sets Forte Strong’s failure to launch treatment program apart from other treatment programs.

Leave with Real Life Preparedness

Overall, Forte Strong creates a safe place where young adults can learn how to become real, functioning adults without the devastating fear of failure that paralyzes many young men. Some other programs, like wilderness therapy camps, take men out of the real world environment instead of helping them to thrive in real life situations. At Forte Strong, we don’t sugarcoat anything, and students in our program face real-life problems and challenges because we believe that is the best way to get lasting results. However, they also always have the support and guidance that they need. If your son has failed to transition to adulthood on his own, Forte Strong is the perfect environment to help him do so.

Success Stories

You can watch more success stories from graduates or read testimonials from parents and students on our testimonials page.

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