Southwest Counseling Service Therapeutic Community for Men Men's Sober House

About this Sober House

Southwest Counseling Service Therapeutic Community for Men is a men's recovery residence on Duran Drive in Rock Springs, Wyoming, serving Sweetwater County. It is a structured long-stay program running four to six months, built for men with serious substance use histories and often with criminal justice involvement behind them.

How This Men's Recovery Home Is Structured

The therapeutic community model puts the house itself to work. Residents live together for months, take on responsibilities within the community, and are held accountable by peers as much as by staff. Individual, group, family and couples counseling run alongside that daily life. Four to six months is long enough for habits to actually change rather than simply pause.

Who This Sober House Was Built For

Admission is aimed at men whose substance use is severe and entangled with criminal behavior, a population that shorter programs frequently cannot hold. Referrals commonly come through the courts and probation. The program also serves men with co-occurring mental health conditions.

Support That Continues After This Recovery Residence

The operator provides recovery coaching, peer mentoring, employment counseling and housing services, plus discharge planning, overdose education and follow-up after discharge. For a man leaving a four-to-six-month stay with no job and no lease, that continuing scaffolding is what determines whether the months held.

Sweetwater County Recovery Housing and the Distance Question

Rock Springs is the commercial center of Sweetwater County, the largest county in the state by area, though Green River is the county seat fourteen miles west. Interstate 80 runs through town, and the region's energy and rail employers are here. For a man from Wamsutter, Superior or Farson, this address is the recovery housing option within reach, and the alternative is leaving the county entirely.

Certification and This Wyoming Sober Living Program

Wyoming has no recovery residence certification program and no NARR affiliate, so no house in the state carries a state credential. This one is operated by a certified operator: the organization is certified by the Wyoming Department of Health and accredited by CARF. Confirm program length, cost and expectations with intake directly.