Will has been working with adolescents and their families for over twenty-five years.He has expertise in the field of addictions, systems therapy, and adventure therapy. Will received his Bachelors Degree and Psychology from the University of Colorado in 1983. He received his Masters Degree in Social Work from Denver University in 1987. He is dually licensed as a Clinical Social Worker and as an Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor.

An old timer in the field of adventure therapy Will has served as the chairperson of the Therapeutic Adventure Professionals Group of the Association of Experiential Education (AEE) and as a board member of the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP). Will has presented on the topic of Adventure Therapy at national and international conferences as well as being an adjunct faculty at Plymouth State University.

He has significant outdoor experience including mountaineering trips in South America and the Himalayas. He has lived in the White Mountains of New Hampshire since 1987 where he loves to work and play. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife, Lisa, and two sons, Caleb and Micah, and dog, Dahlia.

We did not change as we became older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
                                                                                       --Lynn Hall

Darrell has worked with teens for nearly 20 years, with the past 10 serving in clinical roles in residential treatment. Darrell's Bachelor's degree in Recreation and his Master's degree in Counseling are the formal background he draws upon to serve teens and their families in Summit Achievement's wilderness therapy approach. His professional interests include adventure therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, systems and group work, stage of change, and Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Darrell is licensed in the State of Maine as a drug and alcohol abuse counselor, and is a graduate of the Walt Disney World College Program's School of Business Management.

A former regional representative to the Association of Experiential Education's Therapeutic Adventure Professionals' Group, Darrell has presented to large and small audiences of the regional to international level on the use of adventure-based experiences as a tool to help people connect, grow and change. Darrell is a former adjunct faculty member in Plymouth State College's School of Graduate Studies and has consulted with and helped to train organizations to improve their internal relationships and service delivery systems. Prior to graduate school, Darrell spent seven years working for urban and suburban Boys and Girls Clubs as both an athletic and community outreach director.

Darrell has helped guide teens in the mountains and waterways of New England since 1990. He has coordinated wilderness therapy expeditions to the Florida Everglades and Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. A native of the Boston area, Darrell has lived and been actively involved in rural communities in and around the White Mountain National Forest for 13 years. He currently resided in the shadow of the western Maine Mountains with his wife Kathy and two children Alexandria and Benjamin, where they enjoy outdoor recreation and a number of team sports together.

Nichol is a Licensed Master of Social Work in the State of Maine. He received a Masters in Social Work from the University of New England in Portland, Maine, and also has a Bachelors degree in US History from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Nichol has worked extensively with adolescents in the wilderness for over 10 years. He worked as a Team Leader and member of the guide staff here at Summit Achievement for over 3 years. Nichol spent 6 years planning, organizing and implementing multi-week canoe trips for adolescent boys in Ontario, Northern Manitoba and Nunavut for the Kooch-I-Ching Camping and Education Foundation. In addition, Nichol has experience as a case manager and outreach worker for homeless teenagers and as a therapist for the Veteran's Administration.

Nichol's therapeutic work is grounded in Cultural-Relational Theory, Cognitive Theory and Family Systems Theory. However, above theory Nichol firmly believes in the quality of the relationship with the student as being paramount to their success. He is often found walking through the woods with his students or joining them overnight on their wilderness expeditions.

Nichol was born and raised in Maine. When not at Summit he is most often in the mountains on his telemark skis. However, for the few months that we do not have snow, Nichol can usually be found paddling the rivers of Maine and Canada, hiking in the White Mountains, or fishing a good trout stream.