Black Mountain Treatment Center

Black Mountain Substance Abuse Treatment Center for Women is a 60 bed residential treatment facility for adult women located in Swannanoa, North Carolina. They focus on providing addiction treatment services to probationers and parolees before they transition back into society.

Something special about this facility is its beautiful location. You’ll attend treatment in the beautiful mountains of western North Carolina so you can start your recovery journey in a peaceful, serene spot.

Their residential program is a 90 day program for women aged 18 or older. It uses a multidisciplinary approach to substance use disorder treatment that includes group therapy, individual therapy, and addiction education.

While in residential treatment, clients participate in the center’s primary program. This program helps educate and treat those with substance use disorder. It focuses on teaching recovery as a solution to a disease that is not curable, and that can be fatal if left untreated. Recovery groups and holistic treatments are an important part of this program. Physical wellbeing, family and social welfare, psychological needs, legal concerns, education planning, and vocational support are topics that will be addressed.

In addition, clients also participate in group therapy as part of their treatment plans. This type of therapy allows them to connect in a group setting to discuss and work through mental, emotional, and physical issues. There are a number of different group therapy modalities available, including support groups, psychoeducation and more.

In both individual and group-based settings, trauma informed counseling is available. It’s very common for trauma to play a role in a person’s need to use substances to cope. As the brain changes, it’s imperative to restore it to normal functioning to create success in recovery. The Center utilizes Stephanie Covington’s work focused on women’s recovery/trauma and introduces clients to a variety of self help recovery groups.

Finally, family support is another cornerstone of residential treatment at the Center. Ensuring the family unit understands the complexity of addiction is important, yet not all families can participate in family programming. At Black Mountain Treatment Center, relationships are an important topic, and learning how to repair and work through trauma and unhealthy dynamics while learning how to effectively communicate is covered as a part of the healing process.

Addiction recovery services are provided free of charge to participating clients, though this support does not extend to major medical or mental health care needs.

Clients who have gone through this program say they’re now clean and sober and they owe their success to the care they received here. One client said that the experience played a big role in the person they are today.