Trails momentum was an awful, triggering time for my son and made his conditions worse.
About Trails Momentum
Trails Momentum is an integrative mental health care and addiction treatment program for young adults in Hendersonville, North Carolina. They specialize in recovery focused life skills training with an emphasis on psychotherapy combined with adventure/wilderness therapy. In addition to residential care, they also provide aftercare planning and support.
The residential program at Trails Momentum allows clients to focus on their recovery in a private, wilderness setting spanning 800 mountainous acres. Their campus features horse stables, hiking trails, and lake and river access. Residents receive mental health assessments, personalized care planning, and ongoing case management. They also engage in intensive, trauma informed individual, group, and family counseling. Trails Momentum also prioritizes recovery focused life skills using experiential therapeutic techniques to build clients’ communication, coping, and problem solving skills and increase their self confidence. They offer equine therapy, recreational therapy, nature/wilderness therapy, and fitness therapy.
Trails Momentum promotes long term recovery through robust wraparound care, including comprehensive aftercare planning and transitional support. Clients may receive referrals to outpatient and sober living programs, community based treatment, academic and vocational training, and medical, mental health, and social services.
Trails Momentum is LegitScript certified. They accept private insurance and self pay.
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Terri Beth Miller, PhD
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Quentin Blount
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I had a very traumatic and terrible experience at Trails Momentum in North Carolina. If you are looking to send yourself or someone you know to a mental health facility send them elsewhere. Campers, counselors and staff would bully me and make me feel unwelcome even when it was clear how much I was struggling and I didn't cause harm to anyone else, they worsened my mental state. They would bully in a passive way so they couldn't get in trouble for it. Here are examples. On my third day I ran away, not too far, but into the woods after I found out my parents lied saying my stay was only 3 weeks when it was actually 3 months. A week later the counselor who had to chase me did a chicken dance towards me implying I was a wimp. There was one time I got so mad and fed up with how I was treated that I punched a tree and injured my hand. Later on, we had a group activity where a counselor used a drawing of a hand and I can't remember what it was used to demonstrate about us, but this guy was actually my therapist and he had already been really passive aggressive so I could tell that he was poking fun at me. A camper purposely changed their nickname from Casper to Chase because of the fact that I ran away that one time. Thats not even the worst thing campers did towards me. Outside of this camper example, it was pretty obvious that there was a trend of passive bullying me and if the staff didn't do it on their own they would join in with the other campers. Generally just a really toxic and horrible environment, even from my therapist who was super passive aggressive. Although, there were very few campers and staff that did nothing wrong to me, a majority were just awful. They didn't feed us enough, sometimes just two small cups of food for dinner. I remember in the main hall they had some really weird drawings that literally had pentagrams on it. Im not against practicing satanism or anything but it's not appropriate for a place like this and it made me feel uncomfortable. They also limited the amount of mirrors at this camp because they said they didn't want you to take up time doing your hair or anything, but it felt too psychologically restrictive. The day I arrived there they did a strip search where I had to take off all my clothes except underwear which was uncomfortable and not necessary. I happened to lose some clothes they provided me, which was pretty inevitable since we all used the same laundry machines and all the clothes looked the same, and they didn't give me new ones so half the time I was wearing dirty clothes and it was really uncomfortable. I lost my toothbrush at one point and they took like a week to get me a new one even though it's just a toothbrush. Also safety protocols were horrible here and poorly executed, they would feel the need to watch me to fill up my water bottle in the kitchen even though they had stuff like knives locked up. But then many times at night I was easily able to walk away from my group when I waited for them to fall asleep so I can get some peaceful alone time. I had no intent, but if I did wanted to take my life, I could've easily done so. Trails is trying to cover this up, but they have had multiple instances of campers taking their lives because safety precautions weren't met. Also at least two instances of campers being SA'ed, there was a girl who was SA'ed while I was there. There was one hiking trip where they made us carry our heavy backpacks up a mountain and it really hurt my back, the trip wasn't even fun at all, all we did was hike again the next day, and we stayed 2 nights so I couldn't shower and smelled and felt dirty when we got back and they didn't even have a portal potty or anything so I held my poo in for nearly 2 days. They invaded privacy by reading my personal journal when I wasn't looking and any letters to or from me. I barely even got to talk to my family through mail. Horrible experience, I was way more mentally ill, depressed, anxious, and paranoid when I left. I am still disturbed by my experiences here to this day. Also very expensive.
Shouldn’t let people vape/ganj on shift! All they do is turn a blind eye. Yes we did.
IF YOURE READING THIS THE STAFF SMOKES HELLA VAPES
I let a student hit my weed pen. Went into the bathroom with it. Shared that weed pen with a bunch of other staff while employed here.
How does the staff help kids with drug abuse when there’s literally smoking on shift? We all had a little vape. Everyone lmao. You paid us (yes multiple staff) to smoke on shift.
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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.
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.
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.
Medicaid is a state based program that helps lower-income individuals and families pay for healthcare. Medicaid covers addiction treatment so those enrolled can use their coverage to pay for rehab. When a program accepts Medicaid the client often pays very little or nothing out of their own pocket.
Addiction Treatments
Levels of Care
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.
Completing a drug or alcohol rehab program shouldn't spell the end of substance abuse treatment. Aftercare involves making a sustainable plan for recovery, including ongoing support. This can include sober living arrangements like halfway houses, career counseling, and setting a patient up with community programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA).
Treatments
Substance rehabs focus on helping individuals recover from substance abuse, including alcohol and drug addiction (both illegal and prescription drugs). They often include the opportunity to engage in both individual as well as group therapy.
Programs
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.
Clinical Services
Equine therapy, aka equine-assisted therapy (EAT), is a form of experiential therapy that involves interactions and activities with horses. It does not necessarily involve riding horses, but all activities related to horses, such as feeding, grooming, haltering and leading them. A mental health professional frequently oversees the activities (often in conjunction with a horse professional), and helps patients process their thoughts, feelings, and behavior patterns during and/or after the interaction.
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.
Fitness therapy blends exercise with psychotherapy for a fun, inspiring, and effective way of treating addiction and other issues. By incorporating movement into counseling sessions, clients become more empowered, motivated, and goal-oriented, all while strengthening their bodies and becoming more flexible. Fitness Therapy is usually used to complement a course of treatment (inpatient or outpatient) to make it even more successful. Increasing the connection between a patient’s mind and body helps both with healing as well as in creating new, healthy habits.
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.
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 trainings involve all the skills a person must have in order to function successfully in the world. These include time management, career guidance, money management, and effective communication. Truly successful addiction recovery is based on the ability to not only live substance-free, but to thrive. Life skills teaches the practical necessities of functioning in society, which sets clients up for success in life, and therefore sobriety.
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a structured way of helping those with major mental illnesses and/or substance abuse by bringing services directly to the patient in home. Instead of hospitalization or an outpatient program, staff members like social workers, psychiatrists, and counselors come directly to the patient’s house for treatment. ACT is used primarily for those with severe and persistent mental illness like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, some of whom also contend with substance abuse. ACT can be short- or long-term (months to years), and provides the same multidisciplinary, 24/7 staffing of a psychiatric unit, but in the comfort of the patient's own home and/or community.
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.
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Accreditations
LegitScript has reviewed Trails Momentum as part of their certification program, and has determined that it meets the LegitScript standards for legality, safety and transparency.
LegitScript verified in November 2019
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555 Sky Valley Camp Rd.
Hendersonville, NC 28739
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