Holden’s comprehensive approach to teaching nurtures students’ emotional, social, and academic well-being. Our unique campus in Orinda is BART walkable and serves students from all over the San Francisco Bay Area.
Through flexible scheduling, emotional support services, no-fail academics, and individualized graduation plans, Holden has been helping teens overcome and manage anxiety since 1969.
Holden integrates weekly 1-on-1 counseling sessions into our school days. During these sessions, students receive emotional support, help to navigate personal relationships, and tools to create changes through conscious decision-making in their lives. A teenager struggling with anxiety finds this time helpful.
Holden families benefit from meetings with a family counselor and their student’s Resource Exploration and Support Counselor. These meetings aid in mediating conflicts and improving interactions between family members. Tuition includes eight sessions per year.
Holden has 100+ collective staff years of experience working with students who have experienced anxiety and depression.
We coordinate with outside support (therapists, neuropsychologists, psychiatrists).
Holden strongly emphasizes personal growth and community, with many elective self-exploration groups and classes.
Holden’s curriculum incorporates the five tenets of Social Emotional Learning: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship building, and responsible decision making.
Holden graduates leave with a concrete post-high school plan.
When a teenager is struggling with anxiety, it can cause a variety of challenges for young people and their families. Holden educates young people in a small, caring environment where everyone is known and deeply valued. Holden specializes in treating generalized and social anxiety in teens.
