Provo Canyon Student Testimony 
Name: Anonymous 
Facility: Provo Canyon 
Years: 2000-2001 
Experience: 
I was a student for 9 months at Provo Canyon School in Utah when I was
 15 years old for being an out of control teen on probation in
 Colorado. Although I am almost 29 years old, I am still trying to
 figure out how to live a normal life as a mother of 3, wife and
 daughter to a disabled mother. I was a very rebellious teenager and my
 trip to the school was due to my acting out and having been placed in
 many placements, all of which I ran from except Provo. I am not even
 writing this to say I was abused in any way at this school. My concern
 is my therapy sessions that took place, and how they are still
 affecting my life today. While at Provo Canyon School I was attending
 therapy with Mike Lind. I had been having dreams, more like
 flashbacks, or maybe just thoughts about sexual abuse as a child
 involving family. I say maybe just thoughts because looking back, my
 therapist told me they were flashbacks, I was 15 and not sure what I
 was dealing with. As my therapist made this issue the main priority,
 along with my probation officer I was told I would not be allowed to
 leave the school until I confronted the family members in therapy. So
 I did, one who was willing to admit his wrongs and get help.. The
 other is still in denial of my accusations. My P.O. and therapist
 decided one confrontation was acceptable to let me go home. I am just
 now realizing how much that forced confrontation has kept me
 struggling as long as I have and it has only caused my family to be
 torn apart at the seams and it all goes back to this issue I was
 forced to confront. My concern is that how can another human being
 decide how you should handle such a sensitive issue and force me to
 confront family that was not any more ready at the time than I was to
 deal with it. My life is a mess, and this forced confrontation is why,
 I feel anyway. How can my family move on when we weren't ready? I
 would like to have peace with this part of my past but it seems
 impossible now. I'd like to know that in the future, authorities think
 about the sensitivity of such ultimatums. Young, scared, confused, and
 stuck with the only option I was given. Confront or you don't leave?
 How was that right??