CooperRiis is a specialized residential therapeutic ”healing farm community” for people with mental illness or emotional distress.

It is a nurturing, caring environment for learning, living and working; all designed to move residents towards wellness.  CooperRiis is a modern complex on an 80 acre farm in the village of Mill Spring, North Carolina about 45 miles southeast of Asheville, NC and about the same distance north of Greenville and Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Our “healing farm community” gets its approach and structure from other therapeutic models in New England that have been in practice for over 90 years. The central concept is a living environment where staff and residents live and work together as a functioning community. To make the model even stronger, we have added the elements of modern psychiatry and psychotherapy, with an emphasis on relationship-centered care and a strong holistic component that affirms and honors the “whole” person during their recovery.