The Center for Youth Mental Health offers an enhanced form of cognitive-behavioral therapy called the Launching Emerging Adults Program (LEAP). This new treatment expands on traditional cognitive behavioral exposure therapy by integrating skills needed to help young adults thrive in adulthood.
Therapy includes specific progressive modules added as appropriate to engage parents and young adults to work together to better communicate and meet developmental goals. “Failure to launch” is one of the issues addressed by the LEAP program, which helps families and their young adults make the transition to independent adulthood.
Through the LEAP program, therapists assist parents in letting go of their emerging adults and help them encourage their son or daughter to take on the challenges of becoming independent.