Bethesda Recovery Services Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Bethesda Recovery Services is a women's sober living home on Mary Street in Waycross, Georgia, the seat of Ware County. The program has operated in Waycross since 1996 and runs a one-year residential recovery track alongside day services for women in early sobriety.

A Women's Recovery Residence on Mary Street

Bethesda houses women together in a family-style setting built around shared meals and daily structure, an arrangement the program has run in the same Waycross location for nearly three decades. The length of stay, a full year, is longer than most sober houses ask for, and it is built around finishing the program's phases instead of a fixed move-out date.

Peer, Professional and Pastoral Support

The program describes its model as combining peer services, professional services and pastoral services, a three-part structure that puts licensed counseling, resident-to-resident accountability and spiritual care under one roof. Its 12Gates Recovery curriculum builds that pastoral piece around biblical principles and boundary-setting, which sets clear expectations for anyone who prefers a program without a faith component to look elsewhere.

A Long-Running Program in Ware County

Three decades in one location gives Bethesda a track record few Georgia sober houses can match, and it means the program has weathered turnover in local treatment providers and funding cycles that have shut down newer operations. Waycross is the seat of Ware County and the commercial center of Southeast Georgia, so a resident here is close to the county courthouse, area churches and outpatient providers that make up the referral network feeding the house.

Who Bethesda Recovery Services Serves

The program is built for women, though staff will assess men for referral elsewhere when a bed here is not the right fit. That distinction matters for a family calling on behalf of a man in recovery: Bethesda can point them somewhere else instead of taking a resident the house is not structured for.

Peer Services Early recovery may have pitfalls for some, but at Bethesda Recovery we offer coaches with life experience to help you navigate your pathway.  We believe people in recovery get sober many different ways. We offer peer support which is respectful and non-judgmental. Our coaches have lived experience which they share with others. We have certified peer specialists and  certified Christian recovery coaches who are glad to make appointments, to offer check ins, and face to face meetings. Professional Services Bethesda Recovery has certified drug and alcohol counselors who can assists you with assessments for residential recovery or out patient services.