Lava Heights Academy, Toquerville
About Lava Heights Academy – Toquerville
Lava Heights Academy is a private for-profit residential treatment center for girls aged 12 to 17 at 730 Spring Drive in Toquerville, Utah, operating as a Rite of Passage program. Boys are not admitted and neither are adults. Students come from across the United States rather than only from Utah, so for most families the practical questions are travel and family contact rather than local catchment.
What distinguishes the program is that the arts carry the clinical work rather than decorate it: art, music, drama, and dance and movement therapy run alongside cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior therapy, with a clinical focus on trauma, coping skills and relationships. Heather Weinberg, LCMHC, ATR, is clinical lead, and the registered art therapist credential behind that title is the relevant one for an arts-based program.
The admissions page names the concerns the academy works with: depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders and body image disorders, self-harm, poor impulse control, a history of abuse or neglect, and a history of drug or alcohol abuse. Alcohol is the only substance named anywhere. A 2022 third-party account says the program once admitted boys too and was linked to a different operator; Rite of Passage is the operator named now.
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Setting and Surroundings
A town, mountain setting, at 3,389 ft. The nearest town is Toquerville (population 1,493), under a mile away.
Getting there
- St George Regional Airport (SGU)Regional airport · 20 miles
- Cedar City Regional Airport (CDC)Regional airport · 32 miles
Setting and distances are calculated from this facility’s coordinates against GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), OurAirports and Natural Earth. Distances are straight line, not driving distance.
Treatment Services at Lava Heights Academy
Residential treatment is combined with a full academic program under academic director Joette Hayden, M.Ed., so a girl placed here continues schooling rather than losing a year to treatment. Cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior therapy are the named clinical models, delivered together with art, music, drama and dance and movement therapy, and each student has individual therapy weekly and family therapy weekly by phone or webcam.
Specialty groups run daily, and their topics tell you what the program expects to be working on: trauma, emotional regulation and distress tolerance, addiction recovery, attachment, self-worth, boundaries and identity. The addiction recovery group is where substance use is addressed, taken alongside everything else rather than as a separate track. Experiential work includes hikes, outdoor activity and visits to the national parks in the area.
Family involvement is structured rather than occasional: weekly family sessions by phone or webcam, plus parent workshops three times a year, a pattern shaped around parents who live too far away to visit often. Length of stay is not published, and neither is any aftercare or transition planning, so ask how long a placement typically runs and what support follows a girl home.
Levels of Care
Substances and Addictions Treated
Mental Health Disorders Treated
Counseling and Therapy
Specialized Programs
Lava Heights Academy Address, Location and Contact Information
The academy is at 730 Spring Drive, Toquerville, Utah 84774, in Washington County, rural and in the south-west corner of the state. Hurricane is 6 miles south and Saint George 19 miles south-west, which is the practical reference point for families flying in, since Saint George is the nearest town of any size in the records for this listing.
Two numbers are published. The academy’s main line is (435) 635-0300, while admissions run on (435) 256-7500, a line shared with Falcon Ridge Ranch, a sister Rite of Passage program in Virgin, so say which program you are calling about. Families can also begin with an online application. Some records give the street as 730 East Spring Drive, which is the same site.
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How Much Does Treatment at Lava Heights Academy Cost?
Lava Heights Academy publishes no tuition figure, no daily or monthly rate and no payment information of any kind. No insurance carriers are named, there is no statement on Medicaid, and no financing or scholarship help is described, which for a privately funded adolescent program is the single biggest gap in the public record and the first thing to settle on a call.
Ask the admissions team three things before anything else: the all-in monthly cost including the academic program, whether the academy will bill a commercial plan or provide documentation for an out-of-network reimbursement claim, and whether tuition is charged for a minimum number of months. Because students travel from across the country, travel and family-visit costs sit on top of whatever the program itself charges.
As statewide context only, private-pay treatment in Utah generally runs $6,000 to $25,000 a month for residential care, $7,000 to $13,500 for partial hospitalization and $2,500 to $9,000 for an intensive outpatient program. Those ranges describe the Utah market across adult and adolescent providers rather than this academy’s fees, and they should not be quoted back to it as its price.
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Lava Heights Academy Reviews
No reviews of Lava Heights Academy have been left on RehabSeekers yet. The checkable part of this listing comes from state licensing and federal provider data: licensing runs through the Utah Division of Licensing and Background Checks, with no license number published, and the academy carries national provider identifier 1982947347. Ownership is private and for-profit, under the Rite of Passage name.
A CARF accreditation claim appears on the academy’s own material but is not traceable on the accreditor’s public register under its operator’s name, so a family that treats accreditation as a threshold should ask for the current certificate and its expiry date. The founding year is not published either. Parents who have had a daughter here can tell the next family what a placement is actually like.
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