Shadow Mountain Team
Executive & Administrative
Robb Holub
CEO / CFO
rjholub2@mac.com
Raised in Milwaukee Wisconsin by parents with incredible family values. After experiencing firsthand the crisis a family lives through when touched by addiction his passion has turned to helping other families and their children learn about a lifetime in recovery. As an investment & business advisor for 25 years he sees an opportunity to make a difference in peoples lives at Shadow Mountain. After starting up several business over a couple decades Robb is comfortable building a new business that will service the real needs of families during times of crisis. Being on the parents side himself with his wife Debb has provided the insight for a successful results driven recovery program.
Debb Holub
CEO
Debba52@aol.com
Having grown up just outside of Boulder Colorado coming to Taos is like coming back home again. Debb has over thirty years experience in teaching and mentoring. She has partnered with her husband Robb in several successful startups. She is a proud Mom of a 21 yr old son and 19 yr old daughter. After living with crisis Debb understands the stress families endure when addiction grips a family. She is thankful for the opportunity to educate and lead young men and their families on the road to a lifetime of recovery. She has experience in both addiction and co-dependency and has a very strong faith that keeps her looking to God for guidance and comfort, every moment of every day.
Dana Taylor
Executive Director
danataylor1@mac.com
Born and raised in North Carolina Dana completed her Degree in Social Psychology at Southern Utah University. Although a beach lover at heart, the mountains of Taos embraced her, and she and her family moved to join the Shadow Mountain team. She comes from a background working with young adults in wilderness treatment. It was in this lifestyle she found contentment and happiness. In January she and her husband Ty welcomed their first child, Tripp. Not only a wife and a mother, Dana is a woman in recovery, dedicated to living a sober and healthy lifestyle. Dana has always found it easiest to stay grounded when she is helping others; therefore Shadow Mountain was the perfect opportunity. Dana believes that each individual has the tools inside his/herself to live a vibrant, healthy and fulfilling life, and is dedicated to help those she comes in contact with discover it within themselves.
Ann Bruno, M.Ed
Program Director
What Ann brings to Shadow Mountain is not only her wealth of experience working with addiction recovery services but experience working in an educational setting with young adults. The teaching profession and her love of the creative experience guided Ann to choose art education as her first career experience and landed a position in the public school system teaching art to high school aged students. Realizing after several years of teaching that she wanted to make a greater impact in the lives of young adults, she received a Master Degree in Counseling and pursued becoming a high school guidance counselor. She then discovered the world of addiction treatment and Ann began working as a family therapist in one of the nations leaders in the field of addiction treatment. She holds a BFA in art educations from Illinois State University and a Masters of Education in Counseling and Guidance from the University of Arizona.
Recovery Mentors
John Polozzi
General Manager/Recovery Mentor
John has 20 years clean and sober himself, and is very active in the AA community in Taos. He worked for Habitat for Humanity building homes in Virginia for two years, owned a restaurant in New York cooking for 10 years and is a guitar player with a love for the blues who adds his contributions to the music program as well. He uses his skills and experience in woodworking and general contracting to help young men build a solid work ethic and sense of accomplishment. This helps our students to take responsibility for their own actions and their own recovery.
Christopher Casula
Recovery Mentor
Coming from his own personal experience in recovery, Christopher enjoys helping other young men begin their journey towards recovery and happiness in sobriety. As a young person struggling with addiction, simply abstaining from drugs and alcohol thus eliminating his only seemingly effective coping mechanism was completely unrealistic. As a direct result of working a 12 step program and discovering a new way of life, he has attained long term sobriety himself. Born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, he battled with addiction and alcoholism as a teen and young adult. He sought help through a variety of other treatment methods, each yielding little success or hope. His first hand experience with the unique obstacles that youth presents in recovery, along with his ability to communicate with other young men led him to pursue a career in the treatment industry. Through reconnecting with passions and looking for opportunities to grow, he has learned that living clean and sober is more exciting and fulfilling than he could have imagined. Christopher is a black belt in the Korean Martial Art Tang Soo Do and has played highly competitive baseball for over 15 years. Christopher is an experienced alpine skiier. He enjoys making and recording music and is proficient with the industry standard Pro-Tools software used by music industry professionals worldwide.
Adam Scully
Recovery Mentor
Adam brings great diversity commitment and dedication to Shadow Mountain. Adam was a professional soccer player. His time working in the Coast Guard and as an actor provides a discipline we not only teach but require in our programs for successful lifetime education in recovery. Adam like all of our staff comes from a great family so his values and upbringing are an tremendous example to our students.
Will Barkley
Recovery Mentor
Will is a very valuable team member as he works on the campus and has a great opportunity to be close by the students. The grounds at Shadow Mountain are well kept by the skillful hand and efforts of Will.
Jason Fitzgerald
Recovery Mentor
Clinical & Medical Consultants
Ed Cardenas, LISW, MSW
Clinical Supervisor/Counselor
As part of our effort to keep a strong sense of continuity and team effectiveness Ed is currently training our field staff on the road to individual licensure as drug and alcohol counselors. Ed has over thirty years experience in social services. He has provided services and treatment in various mental health areas including substance abuse, grief and loss, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Ed currently does most of his work educating other social servants and running courses on DUI for the state. He has conducted training in the areas of substance abuse, grief and loss, anger management, peer pressure, and more. He is the author of: the book, "Beachball - Balancing our Relationship World", and the manual "Grief and Loss for Counselors", was a member of the Who's Who in America in 2002,and has two other books on their way to being published. Shadow Mountain is privileged to have Ed conducting the training and clinical supervision of our staff.
Pam Marston, MA, LMHC
Psychotherapist
Pam holds a masters in Transpersonal Psychology. This diverse training informs her work with clients in their individual treatment plans. Successful work with clients has included: substance abuse/addictions recovery,childhood trauma, post-traumatic stress disorders,eating disorders, relationship issues,love and sex addiction, communication skills boundaries, life skills, self esteem development,and spiritual issues. Pam studied the Japanese martial art, Aikido for three years and uses its principals to help clients to develop skillful means of being in the world and relating to others. She has a extensive background in equestrian that has opened her to alternative ways of working and communicating with clients.