Therapiesalon im Wald

Therapiesalon im Wald is a non-profit NGO focusing on prevention and treatment of psychosomatic diseases. The facility is also member of the Euro-TC-network with the director Thomas Legl also president of Euro TC for many years. He represents Euro TC and Therapiesalon in the civil society forum on drugs, with consultative status to the European commission.

Treatment at Therapiesalon offers an individual approach highlighting the very special needs of the individuals, integrating them into the planning of therapy. This is also as an essential tool of motivation to reestablish self responsibility in an resource oriented approach. Therapiesalon features a holistic program with the columns of psychotherapy/psychological treatment, medical treatment, adventure and nature therapy and energetic treatment. Specially sports and adventure therapy are key elements in the motivation process as regular, daily parts of therapy. As the clients are a very heterogenic group with a wide range in age special strategies are developed to mobilize older people in regaining physic activities after long and chronic periods of somatic and psychic illness and the connected inactivity.

Positive motivation and the attractive/enhancing environment has a very high (nearly 100%) retention rate as one of the very positive outcomes. Sport and adventure Therapy regularly include hiking, mountain climbing, wild water kayaking, ski mountaineering, sledge riding, different ball sports, mountain biking and cycling, swimming, dancing and yoga.