About

L. Jay Mitchell is a longtime presence in the West Virginia community who has led a number of self-development programs that encourage growth and achievement in teens. In establishing the Greenbrier Academy for Girls in Pence Springs in 2007, L. Jay Mitchell has developed a therapeutic boarding school in a mountain setting that is committed to protecting and preserving the futures of high school students through instilling self-sufficiency and building a sense of confidence.

Mr. Mitchell’s professional background extends to practicing law in Twin Falls, Idaho, in the early 1980s. In addition to taking on civil and criminal litigation cases, he gained experience in the psychological and emotional injury law sphere. In 1982, he launched the 21-day SUWS Adolescent Program as a way of providing therapeutic education to teens with behavioral and psychological problems.

In 1998, Mr. Mitchell built on this experience in launching the Alldredge Academy in Davis and guiding a program accredited by the West Virginia Department of Education and other relevant organizations. Among his areas of involvement in school and curriculum development has been therapist training and the design of therapeutic interventions.

One framework L. Jay Mitchell has developed alongside this work is Applied Relationality, which encourages creative routes toward personal transformation. He has laid out many of the underpinning ideas in the book Decide Now: The Good Life or The Best Life, which encourages people to reconsider just how they fit into the society around them.