A Design for Living Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

A Design for Living is a women's sober living home in West Palm Beach, Florida, in Palm Beach County. It describes itself as a premier residence for women in recovery, built around a twelve-step aftercare program with clinical support layered on top of ordinary sober living structure.

A Women's Sober Living Residence in West Palm Beach

This West Palm Beach sober house serves women exclusively, and its program goes further than most peer-run homes: residents have access to case management, recovery coaching and life skills development alongside the twelve-step foundation that organizes daily life. Trauma-focused therapy, including EMDR, is available for women whose history includes trauma alongside substance use.

Clinical Support Layered Onto Sober Living

Pairing a sober living structure with case management and therapy addresses two things at once: the practical daily accountability a house provides and the clinical work that often needs to continue well past detox or a residential stay. A resident at A Design for Living can keep working a twelve-step program inside the house while getting therapy and coaching support through the same organization.

What Florida Sober Living Certification Establishes

Florida certifies recovery residences through the Florida Association of Recovery Residences, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences and the only credentialing body the Florida Department of Children and Families recognizes for this type of housing. Certification is voluntary, and a residence that holds it has agreed to a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, and a complaint process outside the house. Anyone considering A Design for Living should confirm its current certification status directly with the residence.

Recovery Housing in Palm Beach County

West Palm Beach is the seat of Palm Beach County and anchors one of Florida's densest recovery communities, stretching south through Lake Worth and Delray Beach along the southeast coast. That concentration of outpatient providers, twelve-step meetings and trauma-informed therapists gives residents of A Design for Living a wide range of support without leaving the county.

More on The Sober House It's a challenging time but also a time of great growth, self-discovery, and the awesome experience of realizing the miracles that come with this new sober life. Our recovery house clients leave the program with a strong foundation in the outside recovery community and a solid understanding of the skills that are necessary to live a productive life in recovery. Others who took the First Step “The spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up and out the negative beliefs we have carried with us from the past and that now poison the present.”  Marianne Williamson Tara, if you ever opened a halfway house you would be the best....not like business best or statistic best, but like the best version of you, so that other women could be the best versions of themselves. I really hope you pursue your dreams, change the community for the people that need it and want it. For the women that need it and have been waiting for a woman like you to come into their life to give them hope and allow a space for them to pursue their own dreams. You're an inspiration to me. I trust you and if I can trust a person after some of my circumstances, I can't wait to see other women step into that light. You really are an amazing human being, I believe in you and hope to be like you when I grow up. You a real one."  J.D., Client