Mental Health Providers in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

I am rating summit oaks a firm 1 out of 5 stars and honestly wish I could give zero. As someone who is finally unlearning the brainwashing that goes on in “treatment facilities” for teens is held to no “standard”. I luckily was not there for all to long before my parents learned that I was not receiving the “help” they promised. In a parents eyes we were supposed to have 1 on 1 weekly therapy with our therapists. In my 6ish months at summit oaks I meet with a therapist 1 on 1 three times in my stay with 2 different therapists! Not to mention I was pulled due to covid at the end of the day, because of that my therapist said we would do weekly “zoom” calls to make sure I keep up with myself. She never reached out after I left and it’s not like I’m surprised. During my process of packing my things to leave a staff member named Holly that I will forever and always remember told all my pod mates to “stop being happy for me, every kid pulled before they are 18 comes back” so I made it my mission to never go back to a place like that again. If they are trying to get teens to stop communicating they mastered that, restraining kids would become normal and you are not to react, to go with that if you did react or have a “panic attack” most of the time you would get yelled at for it. The “point” standard at summit oaks is crazy. A kid gets based off of body language, participation, tidiness of your bed in the morning, with no expectations you are sick. If you get sick you immediately drop down to zero points and can lose the privilege of a family phone call. If you are sending your kid off for mental health care shouldn’t they understand when days get “bad”. Another point to bring up they put me on lots of medication at very high doses, when I worked my way up in the program to a family visit off campus they drug tested me upon my arrival, I failed my drug test due to the medication I was on so they pulled my bed onto the floor and I had to sleep with lights in my eyes next to the overnight staff member. They didn’t believe it was my medication so they even sent my urine off to get tested and I lost all privileges until that test came back. Another thing I would like to mention is there staffing, on my pod there was 13-15 girls and one staff, if there where to be someone acting out everyone would have to go to there room until another staff was called to the pod to address the issue. Maybe not every experience is like mine but it definitely gave me truama rather than helping with it.