Spruce Mountain Inn

155 Towne Avenue
Plainfield, VT 05667

Spruce Mountain Inn VT 5667

About Spruce Mountain Inn

Spruce Mountain Inn has been around for over 40 years. It's a private residential treatment center that can accommodate up to 12 young adults from 18 to 28 who're experiencing mental health and substance misuse challenges. You’ll find ‘em located in Plainfield, Vermont.

They’re just 10 minutes from Montpelier and close to the Winooski River. That means you can either go into town during community events and start reforming social bonds with your peers, or you can go along nature walks and enjoy the outdoors. Even though the priority is to recover from substance abuse, you can still have fun while healing your body, mind, and soul.

Once you sign up, you’ll focus on building life skills. They also provide guidance with school, work, and living a healthy life in addition to therapy. They have a 2:1 staff to client ratio, so you’ll get a lot of personal attention.

Residents spend a minimum of 30 hours each week in therapy. Treatment may include cognitive behavioral therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, and act and commitment therapy. Intensive counseling is offered during the day or evening to accommodate those with various work and home responsibilities.

Group therapy is at the center of the treatment program. If you’re working on substance use, there’s the Psycho-Education Group. You’ll learn how dopamine shapes behavior and how substances affect mental health. This group also covers spotting addiction that doesn’t have to be related to drugs. This can include online gaming or internet addiction. You’ll also get to join the weekly Living Sober Group or 12 Step meetings.

Art play a role in your healing. Activities like painting, music, and sculpture are proven to help people express feelings that might be hard to put into words. Attending their studio workshops provide opportunities to explore your creativity and connect with others.

Setting up a payment schedule can be a little tricky. It’s important to note that the center doesn’t bill insurance directly, so you’ll need to take care of that yourself. They also don’t offer financial assistance. This means that you’ll need to make sure you can cover the cost of treatment on your own in case you have to pay out of pocket. Speak to your insurer to see if they have any out of network benefits.

Latest Reviews

Psychiatry is satanic Burn in hell
3 months ago on Google
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Psychiatric drugs cause permanent harm to a persons body. In this way, Spruce Mountain Inn certainly does more harm than good to its patients. I wish I had never taken any Psychiatric drugs. I will never take them again. I'm very pleased that more people are becoming suspicious of mrna vaccines. I hope people will become more suspicious of Psychiatry, too. It could be like a domino effect. Psychiatry is like Nazism. It's beyond unacceptable
Parker Reynolds
5 months ago on Google
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Good place to go if you are already drugged but you re in danger of being drugged in any mental health facility including this one. The groups were a waste of time unless you re lonely and like it.
Tom Noodles
6 months ago on Google
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Psychiatric drugs cause permanent brain damage. Spruce Mountain Inn does more harm than good!

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Spruce Mountain Inn works with several private insurance providers and also accepts private payments when possible, Please contact to verify your specific insurance provider.

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Private insurance refers to any kind of healthcare coverage that isn't from the state or federal government. This includes individual and family plans offered by an employer or purchased from the Insurance Marketplace. Every plan will have different requirements and out of pocket costs so be sure to get the full details before you start treatment.

Self-pay involves paying for treatment out of your own pocket. You can use savings or credit, get a personal loan, or receive help from family and friends to fund your treatment. If you don't have insurance or your insurance plan doesn't cover a specific program, self-pay can help ensure you still get the care you need.

Addiction Treatments

Levels of Care

inpatient iconInpatient
Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient's individual requirements.
12-step icon12-Step
12-step programs are addiction recovery models based on Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). A number of substance abuse programs (including some drug and alcohol rehab centers) use the 12 steps as a basis for treatment. Beginning steps involve admitting powerlessness over the addiction and creating a spiritual basis for recovery. Middle steps including making direct amends to those who've been hurt by the addiction, and the final step is to assist others in addiction recovery in the same way. 12-Step offshoots including Narcotics Anonymous (NA), Cocaine Anonymous (CA), Dual Recovery Anonymous (DRA), Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) and Gamblers Anonymous (GA).
sober-living iconSober Living Homes
Residents who have completed a successful period at The Inn can apply to progress along their housing continuum. Residents who have been making good progress and demonstrate readiness for increased independence can apply to transition to one of their three supported on-site Annex apartments. Residents living in The Annex continue to receive comprehensive treatment services and engage in programming, but have some added schedule flexibility, use of their own kitchen, increased access to their technology, etc. Residents at The Annex attend Transitions Group and Independent Living Seminars to gain extra support and skill building for living more independently.
24-hour icon24-Hour Clinical Care
When you enter 24-hour clinical care in Vermont, a medical team monitors your health and is on-site to intervene quickly if any severe withdrawal symptoms occur. Due to the nature of some drug withdrawals, life-threatening symptoms are possible, so this level of care is highly recommended during the detox process. This level of care also helps meet other medical needs, as well as provide mental and emotional support through professional counseling.
medically-assisted-detox iconMedically Assisted Detox
Medical detox is the process of weaning your body off addictive drugs like alcohol, benzodiazepines, or opioids, under the 24/7 care of medical professionals. Often the first step in the recovery process, medically assisted detox takes place in an inpatient setting, where you will be closely monitored to ensure your maximum health and safety. Medications, like Suboxone or Vivitrol, may be administered if needed to alleviate any potential withdrawal symptoms.

Treatments

The goal of treatment for alcoholism is abstinence. Those with poor social support, poor motivation, or psychiatric disorders tend to relapse within a few years of treatment. For these people, success is measured by longer periods of abstinence, reduced use of alcohol, better health, and improved social functioning. Recovery and Maintenance are usually based on 12 step programs and AA meetings.

A person with substance dependence can achieve recovery through drug rehab in Vermont. Professional staff provide a combination of interventions that are designed to help you attain and maintain abstinence from drugs.

A combined mental health and substance abuse rehab has the staff and resources available to handle individuals with both mental health and substance abuse issues. It can be challenging to determine where a specific symptom stems from (a mental health issue or an issue related to substance abuse), so mental health and substance abuse professionals are helpful in detangling symptoms and keeping treatment on track.

Programs

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Teen Program
Teen programs are designed to address the unique pressures teens face, pressures that can drive them to experiment with dangerous, addictive substances. They need programs that meet them exactly where they are and give them tools for long-term recovery. Therapy can help teenagers understand and work through underlying issues so they can reclaim the life ahead of them.
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Adult Program
Adult rehab programs include therapies tailored to each client's specific needs, goals, and recovery progress. They are tailored to the specific challenges adult clients may face, including family and work pressures and commitments. From inpatient and residential treatment to various levels of outpatient services, there are many options available. Some facilities also help adults work through co-occurring conditions, like anxiety, that can accompany addiction.
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Program For Men
Men face specific challenges and concerns when seeking addiction treatment. Gender-specific recovery programs help them tackle these issues head-on in an environment that's focused, targeted, and distraction-free. It also gives them the opportunity to connect with and learn from other men who have been through a similar journey and can offer support for the next step.
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Program For Women
Rehabs for women provide a safe, nurturing space for female clients to heal. These treatment programs consider the specific obstacles that women can face during recovery and place a special emphasis on mental, social, physical, and reproductive health. They explore how each woman's experience has shaped the trajectory of their substance use, addressing issues such as sexual abuse and past trauma.
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Young Adult Program
Young adulthood can be an exciting, yet difficult, time of transition. Individuals in their late teens to mid-20s face unique stressors related to school, jobs, families, and social circles, which can lead to a rise in substance use. Rehab centers with dedicated young adult programs will include activities and amenities that cater to this age group, with an emphasis on specialized counseling, peer socialization, and ongoing aftercare.
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HIV/AIDS Program
HIV/AIDS programs support disease prevention and management in high-risk individuals in recovery. Individuals who engage in intravenous drug use and other addictive behaviors are at a higher risk of becoming infected with HIV. Rehab centers that specialize in treating this population typically have a high number of nurses, physicians, and psychiatrists on staff who can make sure both their medical and mental health needs are met.
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LGBTQ Program
Recovery is most successful when clients feel accepted and validated by their peers and treatment providers. Facilities that offer LGBTQ-inclusive programming are committed to creating a safe space where everyone can grow and recover without fear of judgment or discrimination. They will have dedicated policies in place to create a safe and supportive environment that fosters free expression.

Clinical Services

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.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a modified form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a treatment designed to help people understand and ultimately affect the relationship between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. DBT is often used for individuals who struggle with self-harm behaviors, such as self-mutilation (cutting) and suicidal thoughts, urges, or attempts. It has been proven clinically effective for those who struggle with out-of-control emotions and mental health illnesses like Borderline Personality Disorder.

Their expansive group curriculum is at the heart of Spruce Mountain Inn’s treatment model, and includes a carefully designed array of therapeutic process-oriented groups, psycho-education and skills-based programming, arts and experiential offerings, and movement and exercise groups. Group work is a necessary complement to individual treatment services in that it allows residents to work together with their peers on similar goals and to benefit from peer feedback and support.

All residents at Spruce Mountain Inn receive intensive individual treatment services during their stay from several clinical professionals who work as a multidisciplinary treatment team. Components of individual treatment include: clinical case management, individual psychotherapy, one-on-one support, psychiatric evaluation and individual meetings.

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.

eye-movement iconEye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing

Research clearly demonstrates that recovery is far more successful and sustainable when loved ones like family members participate in rehab and substance abuse treatment. Genetic factors may be at play when it comes to drug and alcohol addiction, as well as mental health issues. Family dynamics often play a critical role in addiction triggers, and if properly educated, family members can be a strong source of support when it comes to rehabilitation.

Spruce Mountain Inn recognizes the importance that employment and earning a living play in the transition to independence for young adults. Additionally, they believe that the sense of accomplishment and enjoyment that come from successful work experiences enhances well-being and can provide a foundation for increased self-esteem and recovery from mental health challenges. Through their Career Development program, clients are offered unique opportunities to gain skills as well as to increase self-esteem and personal autonomy. These opportunities range from the vocationally related components of the Life Skills Program at the Inn to volunteer placements and competitive community employment.

Spruce Mountain Inn’s in-house chef prepares fresh, nutritious meals with a focus on variety, wellness, and community. Meals typically feature local and seasonal produce, healthy proteins, salads and/or soup, and an assortment of side options. Residents and staff dine together in their dining room or common room, often eating outside when the weather is nice. Meals are served buffet style and are a time of community building at Spruce. In keeping with their focus on independent living skill development, all residents participate in Cooking Group in order to build or advance their cooking skills. Under the guidance of their chef, they will learn fundamentals of menu planning, food preparation and storage, knife skills, and a variety of cooking techniques.

Recreational therapy allows you to find joy and purpose within healthy activities that are typically not a part of your life while you are addicted. These can include group games, arts and crafts, and fitness programs that help promote relaxation, give you an outlet for your emotions, and reduce stress levels. These factors are essential for long term recovery.

Arts programming is woven into many aspects of treatment at Spruce Mountain due to their empirically-proven therapeutic and health benefits. In addition to structured group time, residents are strongly encouraged to make art & music independently as a method of self-expression, stress management, and creative personal exploration. Spruce Mountain’s main campus features a well-equipped art studio where residents may paint, draw, sculpt, build, or otherwise create art.

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. Experiential therapy departs from traditional talk therapy by involving the body, and having clients engage in activities, movements, and physical and emotional expression. This can involve role-play or using props (which can include other people). Experiential therapy can help people process trauma, memories, and emotion quickly, deeply, and in a lasting fashion, leading to substantial and impactful healing.

Amenities

  • basketball iconBasketball Court
  • recreation iconRecreation Room
  • weight iconGym
  • art iconArt Activities
  • spa2 iconYoga Studio
  • meditation iconMeditation Room
  • beach iconBeach Setting
  • home-setting iconResidential Setting
  • private-room iconPrivate Rooms
  • music2 iconMusic Room
  • hiking iconHiking
  • building1 iconDay School
  • volleyball iconVolleyball Court
  • wilderness iconWilderness Setting
  • tennis iconTennis Court

Contact Information

Phone icon (802) 454-8353
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155 Towne Avenue
Plainfield, VT 05667

Edited by:
Peter Lee, PhD

Reviews of Spruce Mountain Inn

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I've received help here like none I've gotten before. The staff is understanding and compassionate, but they aren't going to let you get away with anything stupid. I've learned to be more independent, better at handling tough situations, and I've gained a lot of confidence i ... Read More

Reviewed on 12/3/2018
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3.4 (25 reviews)
Stuart Pyle
2 weeks ago
5

Spruce did wonderful work with our young adult. They balanced sobriety and accountability with following our son's wishes and dreams in his own treatment. From intake through to graduation, the entire team was caring and professional (and phenomenal!).

Mary Katherine Studley
3 weeks ago
5

Spruce Mountain Inn was a place of love and hate. I hated that I needed to be in a place like Spruce, a place where at first, I thought, I was shoved because I was a loser at the game of life. What young person wants to be in a place that encourages structure, boundaries and accountability when what they really want is creative freedom and a full tank of gas? I loved the groups, the outings, hiking and kayaking, volunteering at The New School with the littles and being a part of the Spruce community. It wasn't easy but with a lot of support from the staff, I was able to develop real friendships there and live within a community of equals (staff included) while gaining in some skills that would help me attain a college degree. It may not sound like much but when you are starting from the darkest of places, I really did get the foundations to build a life from SMI.

Donald Layton
3 weeks ago
5

My son attended Spruce Mountain Inn several years ago. In just over a year, he became a self-confident adult able to take on going back to college, taking a full load of courses for two years to graduate, getting a job and then into a top law school. Before going, he was suffering from significant depression that rendered him unable to stay in school full-time or really live on his own. The turnaround was amazing and we will be forever grateful to SMI.

Sally Pratt
3 weeks ago
5

Spruce Mountain Inn has been invaluable to our family as we worked together to best support our daughter who had been struggling with anxiety.Our daughter was motivated to heal and was the driving force in her success. She worked hard in her program and has overcome many of the obstacles that had held her back and now has the tools for the future.We know, as parents we are part of the equation and participated in family therapy. This was very instrumental for us to better understand each other and improve our communication.Karen O Hara is a grounded therapist and we benefitted from her input greatly during our sessions. I would highly recommend Spruce.

Edward L. Berman
4 weeks ago
5

My son spent over a year at Spruce Mountain. We were recommended there by consultants who will always be our heros for their advice and guidance in helping our son get on track. The Spruce program is tough and can be perceived to be rigid, but what they are doing is in the best interest of their patients. My son was at other facilities in his journey and Spruce was by far the best managed and focused in an industry where it is hard to deliver success, which first must be defined. With that said, I'm sure a program like Spruce will never have a 100% success rate. When you arrive you need to buy into the program and follow their lead as they are the experienced professionals acting in your best interest, trying to help you make progress where progress is not easy. If you're not going to be committed then you're wasting your money and time. My son made huge progress and is now in a vastly better place then he was. We owe this to his consultants and Spruce.

Mary Farrell
4 weeks ago
5

Dear Possible Spruce Resident,I gave Spruce 5 stars because I was able to improve so much in such a short time. Spruce is great, but it s still treatment so part of it will always be hard. The biggest changes in me were my distress tolerance, confidence, self-awareness, resilience, boundary enforcement, symptom management, and hope for the future. Spruce won t fix you but it does give you the space, structure, guidance and support for you to fix yourself. And unexpectedly, I met some of my best friends there! For those who desperate and ready to get moving with life, call Spruce NOW! Work hard and you won't regret it.

katie angerame
4 weeks ago
1

This place was an absolute waste of time and money. The only good part about this place was the people that I met there. Other than that the groups was a waste of time. I was there for 9 months and honestly I had the only good therapist that was there. Having her as my therapist was the only reason why I stayed. They will try there hardest to put you on meds even if you don t want to be put on them. Your voice doesn t matter when you want/need things to change around there. It also seemed like the rules were changing constantly and they had no consideration on how it would affect their clients.

Joanna Lilley (Lilley Consulting)
1 month ago
5

As a referent, I hardly leave reviews for programs, if ever. I do think Spruce Mountain Inn could benefit from a neutral, and objective review though. My experience has been referring young adults to this program who I have remained in communication with, not in being a client in the program. My client's experiences at Spruce Mountain Inn have all allowed them to return to their lives after the program (returning to college, etc.) and were all in a better place. A client's success or experience in a program does correlate to their openness and willingness to be there, and there are several circumstances that need to also be aligned to make it good - fit with the community, fit with the culture in Vermont, fit with the therapist, frontloaded expectation management, etc. For each of my clients, this worked for them. I would not hesitate to consider a client for Spruce Mountain Inn if after inquiring on fit and having knowledge of the program, I felt it was appropriate.

Nicole Baker
1 month ago
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My experience here unequivocally left me more broken and so much worse off than I was before I went there. 7 months on and I m having to work double time to undo the trauma that this experience left me with. You will leave with extreme self loathing and an enormous bill for services that never materialized. You will be disconnected from your support systems and society at large. You will be infantilized and dehumanized.

Psychiatry is satanic Burn in hell
3 months ago
1

Psychiatric drugs cause permanent harm to a persons body. In this way, Spruce Mountain Inn certainly does more harm than good to its patients. I wish I had never taken any Psychiatric drugs. I will never take them again. I'm very pleased that more people are becoming suspicious of mrna vaccines. I hope people will become more suspicious of Psychiatry, too. It could be like a domino effect. Psychiatry is like Nazism. It's beyond unacceptable

Parker Reynolds
5 months ago
1

Good place to go if you are already drugged but you re in danger of being drugged in any mental health facility including this one. The groups were a waste of time unless you re lonely and like it.

Tom Noodles
5 months ago
1

Psychiatric drugs cause permanent brain damage. Spruce Mountain Inn does more harm than good!

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