Alta Loma

Set on 20 acres of sprawling countryside, Alta Loma The Ranch provides a safe haven for men to recover from mental health concerns and co-occurring substance use. Their campus offers 3 residential homes and 1 building hosting therapies and wellness activities. Alta Loma treats depression, anxiety/panic disorders, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, and psychosis.
Alta Loma’s treatment is rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help clients reconstruct their thoughts, boosting self-esteem, hope, and positive perceptions of the world. Their Truthought program focuses on creating positive behaviors and changes for lasting healing. Each week, clients engage in 2+ individual therapy sessions and 1+ psychiatric sessions. Treatment includes life skills development with topics such as communication, self-awareness, changing thought patterns, recognizing triggers, job skills, and household skills. Process groups offer clients a different perspective to healing, practice using empathy, and psychoeducation. Alta Loma encourages clients to engage in recovery groups like NAMI connection and 12-Steps.
Alta Loma strives to fill clients’ schedules with various evidence-based and holistic individual and group sessions. On weekdays, clients begin their day with meditation at 9:30 am. Life skills groups occur from 10–12 pm, and then they break for lunch. Clients engage in process groups from 1–3 pm and health and wellness activities from 3–5 pm. After dinner, recovery groups are from 6–7 pm, with free time, and daily goal review from 9:30–10 pm. On weekends, Alta Loma provides time to engage in healthy hobbies as well as therapeutic modalities. Process groups are from 1–3 pm and recovery support groups are from 6–7 pm.
Alta Loma’s main house hosts 9 men with 5 cozy, well-appointed bedrooms. Clients have the option to reside in private or semi-private rooms. The cabins, their other 2 on-site residential homes, hold 6 men each. Alta Loma’s fourth on-site building has a cafeteria and modern gym. Their luxurious amenities include a swimming pool, stocked fishing pond, half-mile fitness trail, basketball court, and field with miniature donkeys and goats. Group therapy is often done outside at their several shaded outdoor seating areas.