Odyssey House - Female Residential

Odyssey House of Utah is a non-profit substance abuse program offering specialized care for a wide demographic of individuals and families, treating addiction and co-occurring mental health since 1971. Throughout several locations, they provide personally tailored treatment for adults, offering co-ed and gender-specific residential and outpatient locations, a program designed for single parents with children, youth residential, outpatient, and school-based programming, sober and transitional housing, a criminal justice program, and robust aftercare services within a supportive alumni community.

Female Mental Health

Odyssey House of Utah offers a residential mental health focused program, each specially tailored for men or women near the Salt Lake City area. Their female mental health residential location is a 16-bed program delivering personally tailored interventions with a highly specialized care team leading individual, group, and family therapy sessions. Clients go through a thorough initial assessment to develop individually tailored treatment plans that fit each individual's unique set of circumstances. Their treatment team consists of certified mental health specialists in addition to substance abuse counselors, available to treat clients struggling with mental health conditions with co-occurring addiction. Odyssey specializes in the treatment of women who have diagnoses such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, psychosis, schizophrenia, and trauma and related conditions such as PTSD.

Their programs emphasize accountability and building a strong recovery foundation based on evidence-based and best practice treatment models, combining treatment services to address patients using a whole-person approach. Clients take part in structured and therapeutic programs that combat negative beliefs that lead to unwanted behaviors, developing vocational and other life skills, maintaining their physical health, rebuilding trust and establishing healthy relationships through strong communication skills, and assistance with finding housing. On average, clients are in treatment at the Odyssey House for 6-9 months, and upon successful completion, receive ongoing support to maintain long-term sobriety and live stable and independent lives.

Whole-Person Approach

Their female residential program reinforces healthy routines that include cooking, laundry, maintaining a clean space, and other important life skills. Women are provided with cognitive and behavioral interventions and skills with a focus on developing resiliency and independence. Sober events and other recreation are integrated into treatment to foster connection and relationship building with peers and experience that it’s possible to have fun in recovery.

Medical care is offered during and after female residential care, integrating medical services, medication management, and more through their nearby outpatient program, Martindale Clinic.

Inclusive Quality Care

Odyssey House of Utah strives to empower individuals to heal and build better lives as the largest comprehensive addiction program in the state. Their dedication to connect every individual to treatment fostered their ability to provide low-cost, quality services. They are a Joint Commission accredited facility that accepts Medicaid and most major insurance providers.