Shadow Mountain Team

A Recovery School... Because Life is in Session

Robb & Debb Holub

After living with crisis the owners understand the stress families endure when addiction grips a family. Being on the parents side has provided the insight for a successful results driven recovery program. After experiencing firsthand the crisis with their own son both parents understand how important finding the right place for your child's recovery can be. The Holub's are thankful for the opportunity to educate and lead young adults and their families on the road to a lifetime of recovery. After nearly losing their son to addiction the creation of Shadow Mountain was a calling to give something back for the gift we have been given. Both Debb & Robb were raised with the right family values which are taught at their program. Along with there son Joey they are blessed with a wonderful daughter Jackie who is 22 yrs old.

Jim Myklebust MA

Executive Director

Jim’s career in the areas of mental health and addictions treatment began over thirty years ago, when he was asked to direct a community program for at risk youth. He held appointments as an Assistant Dean and faculty member in the School of Allied Health Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch Campus in Galveston, Texas. He was a therapist in a community mental health center in rural southwestern Colorado, Clinical Director of a Critical Incident Stress Debriefing Team in Colorado and New Mexico, and an Employee Assistance Program Director there as well. Following that, Jim began traveling into Canada and the Southwestern and Western US providing workshops to First Nations Communities addressing strategies for working with at risk and addicted youth. This work ultimately lead to Jim moving to Canada and working with Poundmakers Lodge Treatment Centre as their Clinical Supervisor. Throughout the last half of this work, Jim’s own spiritual path and personal recovery took shape and has grown to include participation in 12-step support group meetings and traditional spiritual practices. In this position with Shadow Mountain Academy, Jim brings his gratitude for sobriety and his love of working with young adults who have so much to offer to their families and communities once they embrace the gift of recovery.

Dr. Douglas Scott PsyD. LMFT

Head Therapist

Dr. Scott is a certified EMDR clinician and professionally trained neurotherapist and biofeedback clinician, providing tools to his clients that go beyond talk.EMDR is remarkably effective in helping clients resolve old traumas such as psychological, physical, or sexual abuse. Dr. Scott has successfully completed both levels of training mandated by the EMDR Institute. A truly cutting edge treatment method,Neurotherapy (or neurofeedback) is one of the most exciting developments of recent years in addressing problems such as anxiety, depression, ADD and ADHD.There are dozens of schools of psychotherapy and as many different styles as there are psychotherapists. Dr. Scott is a Marriage and Family Therapist licensed by the Counseling and Therapy Practice Board of the State of New Mexico. Marriage and Family Therapy (rather than being a description of our clients) is an approach to psychotherapy that looks at entire systems when assessing problems. Marriage and Family Therapists use many of the same methods that other therapies rely on, such as cognitive, behavioral or experiential approaches, but always start with the foundational element for all successful therapies -- they approach their clients with unconditional positive regard. Additionally Dr. Scott is a Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

Ed Cardenas, LISW, MSW

Clinical Consultant

As part of our effort to keep a strong sense of continuity and team effectiveness Ed trained 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 as part of our staff.

Trilby Devine

Admissions and Business Development
Trilby143@gmail.com

Trilby Hoover is always ready to utilize her professional and personal recovery background to assist others. Experienced with the addictive process she has been in personal twelve step recovery since 1983. Trilby has more than 28 yrs of professional experience working with families. She has an extensive professional background working with adults and minors in every area of behavioral health, including inpatient and outpatient chemical dependency treatment. Her particular passion is working with young adults and their families.

Bryan Thomas

Field Therapist

Bryan comes to Shadow Mountain with a Master Degree in Wilderness Therapy from Naropa University in Boulder CO. His commitment to working with families and their children has set him apart from others in the recovery industry. His work in coordinating treatment plans and articulating an executable plan to our residents and their parents brings comfort to those working with him. Weekly contact and sharing the truth about their recovery progress is one of his most important duties. Residents always respect his calm approach to the daily issues and challenges of treatment.

John Polozzi

Property 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 adults build a solid work ethic and sense of accomplishment. This helps our residents to take responsibility for their own actions and their own recovery.

Charlie Woehler

Mentor in Recovery

Charlie is an awesome addition to our staff and has all the tools to teach our life skills in recovery.Charlie is extremely dependable and consistently displays to our residents a model for what a great work ethic is. An accomplished musician himself and also in recovery he contributes daily to leading by example to SMA residents of the joys in life without drugs and alcohol.

Dan Gregory

Recovery Mentor

Dan was born in LaCrosse, WI and pursued an education in the outdoor industry throughout his college years. He became an adventure guide in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and received a B.S in Recreation Management from the University of Wisconsin. Throughout those years Dan also traveled across North America, New Zealand, and Australia pursuing adventure and live music. It was through this era that his addiction took a firm grip on his life and brought him to recovery. Over the last five years Dan has regained his career in the outdoor industry- spending his winters as a snowboard instructor and summer as a fly fishing guide in the wilderness of south west Alaska.

Joey Holub

Recovery Mentor

Joey has experience in wilderness programs and long term extended care as well. His story can be found on our site. Now over three years sober he can relate first hand to the feelings that our residents have day to day while the hard recovery work is being done. The commitment made to his own recovery is the turning point in his life. Joey shares from his heart what it will take for residents of Shadow Mountain to achieve success in their own recovery. His work at the University of New Mexico has earned him his degree. Joey is very active in the recovery community and works closely with others to assist them in their own recovery.