Lighthouse Recovery

About Lighthouse Recovery

Lighthouse Recovery runs a twelve-step sober house for men in Portland, Maine, in Cumberland County. It describes itself as a progressive twelve-step sober house for men aged eighteen and older, and it operates one residence in the city.

About Lighthouse Recovery

The organization is led by an executive director who has worked in addiction treatment since 2010, and who is a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor and a Certified Contemplative Spiritual Director with a graduate degree in Transpersonal Psychology. That is an unusual combination of credentials to find behind a recovery residence rather than a treatment center, and it accounts for the organization's particular framing of the work.

How Lighthouse Thinks About Addiction

Lighthouse holds that addiction is best understood not as a moral or ethical disease but as a symptom of disconnection, and that effective treatment must foster healing at every level at which that disconnection occurs: from oneself, from family, from community, from one's emotional life and from spiritual life. The twelve-step structure of the house is the vehicle for that, rather than the whole of the philosophy.

Counseling Alongside the Residence

Beyond the house, Lighthouse Recovery offers individual counseling to anyone seeking support with substance use, spiritual growth, or establishing a healthy and meaningful identity. This is a service open to the wider community rather than a requirement placed on residents, and the executive director also works in private practice as a substance abuse counselor.

A Certified Portland Sober Living Operator

Lighthouse Recovery is listed on the register kept by the Maine Association of Recovery Residences, with its house name, its operator name and its city all matching the entry, which is a cleaner alignment than many Maine listings can show. Certification in the state is voluntary and is granted residence by residence, so the level attaches to an address and belongs on that address's listing. At the operator level the claim is narrower and still useful: this is an organization that chose to be measured against a published standard, to disclose its fees and rules in writing, and to accept a complaint process that reaches past its own front door.

Questions for This Cumberland County Recovery Housing Provider

Applications go to the operator, so the operator is where the process questions land. How long has it housed men in Portland? Which treatment providers, detox facilities and recovery centers refer to it, and does a clinical referral move faster than a call from a family? How is the weekly fee documented, is a deposit held, and what is returned after a discharge? Is the individual counseling offered alongside the residence billed separately, and does declining it change anything about a resident's standing? And where does a complaint go when it cannot be settled in the household? An operator working inside a certification standard has a defined answer to the last one.