New Directions for Women

New Directions for Women is a gender-specific, primary substance use program, located in Costa Mesa, CA. We offer a full continuum of care for women, including detox, residential, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient program, intensive sober living, and outpatient services. 

We have been serving women for over forty-seven years, and we've been able to remove some of the barriers women often face when seeking treatment. For example, we can accept most pregnant women at any trimester, including for detox. Additionally, we have six residential beds licensed for women with up to six dependent children under twelve. Although we are primary substance use, we can treat dual diagnoses (anxiety, depression, trauma, PTSD, etc.). Often, our women come in with significant amounts of trauma, so our treatment is trauma-responsive, from a Narrative and Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT) approach. 

Our goal is to empower women to begin to define recovery apart from the disease of addiction. We do so by helping them identify the stories of strength and resiliency that have always existed for them, with the goal to help them engage in a new relationship with themselves and their loved ones. We are a rehab for women, with a model designed by women.