The Glenholme School

Mental Health

Mental health rehabs focus on helping individuals recover from mental illnesses like bipolar disorder, clinical depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and more. Mental health professionals at these facilities are trained to understand and treat mental health issues, both in individual and group settings.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a therapy modality that focuses on the relationship between one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is used to establish and allow for healthy responses to thoughts and feelings (instead of unhealthy responses, like using drugs or alcohol). CBT has been proven effective for recovering addicts of all kinds, and is used to strengthen a patient's own self-awareness and ability to self-regulate. CBT allows individuals to monitor their own emotional state, become more adept at communicating with others, and manage stress without needing to engage in substance abuse.

Creative Arts Therapy

Artistic expression is embraced, respected, and nurtured at Glenholme. Students learn and develop leadership and social skills through the enjoyment of arts activities. Communication, creative thinking, problem-solving, accountability, adaptability, and relationship building are just a few. The understanding and experiences that the arts provides students allows them to increase their self-esteem and learn positive methods of expression.

Equine Therapy

Glenholme’s equestrian program offers students therapeutic, educational, and recreational opportunities in equitation, horsemanship, stable management, vocational education, and community service. It provides an optimal learning environment that emphasizes the development of a strong, positive character and moral responsibility.

Experiential Therapy

Experiential therapy is a form of therapy in which clients are encouraged to surface and work through subconscious issues by engaging in real-time experiences. In order for a student to begin generalizing the skills he or she has learned in individual sessions to the settings where the skills are most needed, the social worker will observe and interact with the student in the student’s own environment. While in the student’s environment, the social worker will predict the emergence of socialization opportunities or environmental triggers for maladaptive behavior, and cue the student to utilize the skills that he or she has practiced in individual sessions.

Family Therapy

Family therapy at Glenholme is designed to assist the student in transferring their gains in treatment back to the home setting. Family therapy therefore focuses on equipping parents with the same Positive Behavior Support strategies that our faculty are trained to employ with the students. Clinicians individualize their family sessions to focus on the unique goals and concerns of each family, and work within the behavioral framework to help address specific issues as they arise.

Group Therapy

Group therapy is any therapeutic work that happens in a group (not one-on-one). There are a number of different group therapy modalities, including support groups, experiential therapy, psycho-education, and more. Group therapy involves treatment as well as processing interaction between group members.

Individual Therapy

In individual therapy, a patient meets one-on-one with a trained psychologist or counselor. Therapy is a pivotal part of effective substance abuse treatment, as it often covers root causes of addiction, including challenges faced by the patient in their social, family, and work/school life.

Life Skills

Skill building is often practiced within various surrounding communities. Glenholme School is friends to many vendors and shopkeepers who support the school and enjoy the students when they frequent the local institutions. The program provides opportunities for participants to gain greater independence in maintaining a healthy life style, managing medication, responsibly navigating social media, meal preparation, as well as personal money management, balancing bank accounts, handling budgets and expenses, and increase organization through executive function development. In addition, staff support students in developing the living skills necessary for future success.

Trauma Therapy

Trauma therapy addresses traumatic incidents from a client's past that are likely affecting their present-day experience. Trauma is often one of the primary triggers and potential causes of addiction, and can stem from child sexual abuse, domestic violence, having a parent with a mental illness, losing one or both parents at a young age, teenage or adult sexual assault, or any number of other factors. The purpose of trauma therapy is to allow a patient to process trauma and move through and past it, with the help of trained and compassionate mental health professionals.