Helena Treatment & Recovery Resources
Listed below are numerous organizations and agencies that offer substance use treatment and recovery services. If you are seeking individual counselors, therapists, social workers, or Licensed Addiction Counselors (LACs) — you can call 211 or access their website and/or use the Bright App listed below.
Emergency? CALL 911 immediately
Montana Suicide Prevention Lifeline: Dial 988
For non-Crisis support:
Speak to a Peer Support Specialist at Beautiful Minds Recovery to help you decide on your next best step: Call 1-866-549-PEER (7337).
Peer support is voluntary, self-directed, strength-based, mutual, and individualized. Lived experience varies from person to person. Beautiful Minds Recovery peer support specialists have their own lived experience in navigating addiction, mental illness, disability, grief and/or trauma.
Peer supporters can also provide resource navigation, distraction to help get through a tough time, a space to vent, help getting basic needs met, assistance building a self written crisis plan, or more.
Mental Health Crisis Text Line: Text MT to 741741
CALL 211 for Non-Emergency Local Information and/or Referrals. Or connect via the 211 webpage and select the Addictions tab (Mental Health is also a tab choice) OR, use the Bright App to find a Behavioral Health provider ("Behavioral Health" includes both substance use and mental health.).
Boyd Andrew Community Services (Helena, Boulder, Whitehall) - Offers outpatient treatment including assessment, ACT/DUI, MIP and Prime For Life classes. Boyd Andrew also failitates a transitional living facility for women only located in Helena.
Florence Crittenton Home & Services - Offers three residential programs for women and their children: a Recovery Home for women 18-35 and their children aged 0-5; a Transitional Living Program and a Youth Maternity Home for ages 12-21 who are pregnant and/or parenting. Also offers ACT/DUI and MIP classes, and outpatient counseling.
Helena Valley Addiction Services - Provides substance use and mental health outpatient counseling, intensive outpatient (IOP) counseling and comprehensive services for Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD)/Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) as well as DUI and MIP classes.
Instar Community Services - Provides assessment, outpatient treatment for substance use disorders and gambling, elapse prevention services as well as ACT/DUI and MIP classes. Also offers a 3.1 Low Intesity Residential Services (for men only).
Sober Solutions Counseling - Offers outpatient counseling for substance use issues through a variety of approaches. Also offers teleheath
Intermountain Community Services - specializes in residential service for children with trauma as well as Child and Family Therapy (ages 5-26), Youth Case Management (ages 3-17), and Psychiatric Medication management (ages 7+). Also state approved for ACT/DUI and MIP classes.
Many Rivers Whole Health - (Helena and Townsend) provides one-on-one therapy, group therapy and recreational activity groups as well as medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for substance use and co-occurring behaviors. Also able to address gambling and eating disorders as well as Prime for Life (DUI) and MIP classes. Many Rivers also has an 8-bed recovery home (serving men only).
Montana Counseling Services - addresses substance use disorder (including both alcohol and drug treatment), DUI counseling, and mental health-related challenges. Also offers Intenstive Outpatient Program (IOP), Anger Management and Prime 4 Life (ACT) classes.
Ideal Option - Outpatient and MOUD (Medications for Opioid Use Disorders) treatment. Locations in Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Cut Bank, Glasgow, Great Falls, Helena, Kalispell and Missoula.
Carroll College Health & Wellness Center - Offers counseling services to students for mental health, alcohold and other drug use and suicide, and is able to provide referrals to professionals in the Helena community for long-term counseling.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs - Fort Harrison VA Medical Center - provides outpatient substance use treatment as well as Medical Assisted Therapy (MAT). An eight weeks-to-two years substance use treatment residential programs and peer support is available. VA-specific treatment programs can also be found through the suds locator at va.gov.
YWCA Helena - The WINGS program (for women only and their children) combines substance-free transitional housing services with outpatient treatment for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Each WINGS participant is provided full wrap-around services incorporating a blend of individual mental health therapy and addictions counseling
Cindy Oliver - Licensed Addiction Counselor and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in private practice. Accepts adolescents age 13-17 as well as adults 18+.
Freedom Counseling - Provides outpatient counseling for both mental health and addictions as well as relationship issues and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
One Recovery Counseling Services - Offers outpatient counseling for substance use treatment using evidence-based approaches.
Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch - (serving youth only) Offers a variety of treatment and supports for youth, including community-based services and a residential treatment center located in Billings. YBGR has locations in Missoula and throughout Montana
406 Recovery - substance use and co-occurring mental health treatment via telehealth. Available throughout Montana.
Organizations that provide 12-step group support
Alcoholics Anonymous - A fellowship of people who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problems and help others to recovery from alcoholism. Check website for meetings in communities throughout Montana.
Narcotics Anonymous Montana - is a nonprofit fellowship of recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean. This is a program of complete abstinence from all drugs. There is only one requirement for membership, the desire to stop using. Check website for statewide meeting times.