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About Us

Welcome to North Spring Behavioral Healthcare

Thank you for your interest in North Spring Behavioral Healthcare! We’d like to share the treatment philosophy that drives our work so that you can better understand how our programs can serve the needs of the children and adolescents we work with.

We believe that all children want to do well. There is a complex set of factors — neurological, psychological and environmental — that can lead to a low sense of self-efficacy in children. These children, whose natural resiliency has been overwhelmed by repeated frustrations, become increasingly symptomatic and therefore require ever-increasing levels of intervention. We believe that these young people need to be understood conceptually, in the light of good, empirically-based assessment tools and experienced clinical judgment. Because of this, we feel strongly that the treatment plan is not a document “for the file,” but an active document that drives treatment.

We believe that it is our responsibility to understand each individual child and adolescent’s challenges, and to create a program that is designed to remove the obstacles that have continually frustrated them. Children do not respond well to across-the-board, cookie-cutter behavior modification systems. At best they might be successful in an institution, where all of the variables can be controlled, but won’t last in the “real world.” At worst, they just frustrate the child more.

With a successful, individualized plan, the child will develop a sense of competence and realize that there are possibilities that they did not previously see. The frustrations that had driven them to despair can then be revisited with a new sense of hope — and it is this hope, in conjunction with the efforts of an experienced clinical team, that will allow each young person to develop their own creative means by which to overcome the problem.

We believe that children should not be in residential treatment centers for longer than they need to be. Each individual’s treatment should be as short as possible, dictated by the child’s individual needs, the needs of the referring locality and the needs of the parent.

These are challenging principles to live with. But for us, it’s a matter of sound, ethical treatment. North Spring Behavioral Healthcare is fortunate to have an extremely seasoned clinical staff, second to none in Virginia, and we have dedicated ourselves to striving to live these principles each day. We use every tool at our disposal — from traditional talk-therapy to art therapy and animal assisted therapy — to help children and adolescents find a sense of hope and potential.

We look forward to working with you!

Welcome from Our CEO

Welcome to North Spring Behavioral Healthcare. Located in Leesburg, Virginia, our beautiful and historic 47-acre campus is home to one of Virginia’s top providers of behavioral health services for children and adolescents. We continually strive to be a community partner in the lives of children and adolescents throughout the state of Virginia. We have consistently accomplished this goal as evidenced by our outcome measurements, patient satisfaction and testimonials.

North Spring is also dedicated to expanding our continuum of behavioral healthcare services to meet the needs of the children of Virginia. At North Spring we have grown from a 77 bed Residential Treatment Center to an 102 Inpatient Beds and two Outpatient Services Behavioral Health continuum. Whether you receive treatment through our Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility, Inpatient Acute, Partial Hospitalization Program or Intensive Outpatient Program, our goal as an organization is to provide services that will enable our patients to return to a healthy, productive role within his or her family, school, work and community as quickly as possible.

I am joined by a team of dedicated professionals who work daily to provide children and families with high-quality effective behavioral healthcare services. We endeavor to promote timely and qualitative access to services that maintain a high level of fidelity to our clinical model thereby enhancing patient safety.

North Spring Behavioral Healthcare is honored that you have chosen us to work with you during your child’s treatment. My team and I look forward to aiding your entire family from admission through discharge.

Sincerely,
David Winters
Chief Executive Officer

Patient Satisfaction

Our Facility

We Help Children and Families Thrive

At North Spring Behavioral Healthcare, we make it our mission to help children and adolescents find a sense of hope and potential. Call 703-554-6300 for a no-cost, confidential assessment day or night, 24/7. If you need immediate medical assistance, contact 911 or seek the nearest emergency room.