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Momentum Recovery Momentum Recovery is an addiction and mental health treatment program for young men and women in need of extended care and transitional living options.

Momentum Recovery is a gender-specific addiction treatment and mental health program that specializes in guiding young men and women on the journey from early sobriety to sustained recovery. Our gender-specific programs offer comprehensive clinical and life skills programming from a holistic perspective. We are located in Wilmington, NC just a few minutes from Wrightsville and Carolina Beaches. We offer unlimited possibilities for personal growth, recreation, and continued progress.

We’ve got a whole host of evidence-backed treatment modalities that we offer at The Creek. But by far the most popular t...
09/30/2026

We’ve got a whole host of evidence-backed treatment modalities that we offer at The Creek. But by far the most popular therapy…hanging with the dogs.

Our guys come in somewhere between 18 and 30, which means they're doing two things simultaneously: recovering from addic...
09/24/2026

Our guys come in somewhere between 18 and 30, which means they're doing two things simultaneously: recovering from addiction and mental health struggles, and figuring out how to be an adult.

Vocational support, financial skills, educational guidance, and case management are built into the program because getting sober while having no idea how to file taxes or write a resume is a setup for relapse, not recovery.

The Creek's community includes individual therapy, group sessions, case management, and, as of recently, competitive pai...
09/21/2026

The Creek's community includes individual therapy, group sessions, case management, and, as of recently, competitive paintball.

The Creek builds community through shared challenges, and paintball is a particularly efficient version of this: everyone is equally vulnerable, everyone has to rely on the people beside them, and the adrenaline of it opens up the kind of genuine camaraderie that takes weeks to build in a therapy room.

Somewhere in The Creek's evidence-based treatment framework, between the CBT sessions and the individual therapy and the...
09/16/2026

Somewhere in The Creek's evidence-based treatment framework, between the CBT sessions and the individual therapy and the case management check-ins, there is always a standing invitation for live mariachi music.

Our staff gave it a thumbs up so that means there’s therapeutic value to it.

The Creek treats addiction as the presenting issue and then gets interested in what's underneath it. For most of our guy...
09/11/2026

The Creek treats addiction as the presenting issue and then gets interested in what's underneath it.

For most of our guys, that's anxiety, depression, or trauma that got “managed” through substances until managing it stopped working.

Young men are the demographic least likely to seek mental health treatment and most likely to end up in crisis when they don't. The Creek exists for exactly that gap.

Sometimes you just need a quiet place to have a solid sit and a good think.
09/09/2026

Sometimes you just need a quiet place to have a solid sit and a good think.

The loneliness driving most young men into treatment shows up as substance use, anger, and the exhaustion of trying to a...
09/02/2026

The loneliness driving most young men into treatment shows up as substance use, anger, and the exhaustion of trying to act “fine.”

The Creek's program is built on a simple and well-supported clinical premise: connection is the antidote.

There is no faking relaxation when you're freediving. The body gives it away immediately: a tense diver is a less effici...
08/26/2026

There is no faking relaxation when you're freediving. The body gives it away immediately: a tense diver is a less efficient diver.

With freediving, our clients learn breath control, nervous system regulation, and how to be comfortable in deep, quiet water, skills that have direct clinical parallels to what they're building in group and individual therapy.

Also it's objectively one of the cooler things we’ve ever done.

The research on young men and mental health is pretty direct: they're among the groups least likely to seek treatment, l...
08/19/2026

The research on young men and mental health is pretty direct: they're among the groups least likely to seek treatment, least likely to talk about what's happening internally, and most likely to cope through action, distraction, or substances.

The Creek's model is built around that reality. Get them outside, get them moving, give them side-by-side experiences instead of face-to-face confrontations, and let authentic relationships happen on their own terms.

Guys who resist traditional therapy formats have a notoriously hard time resisting this face. Animal-assisted therapy wo...
08/13/2026

Guys who resist traditional therapy formats have a notoriously hard time resisting this face.

Animal-assisted therapy works especially well with young men because there's no performance required, no status to manage, and no eye contact dynamic to navigate.

You're just sitting in the yard with a dog who thinks you're amazing. His clinical opinion is consistent: everyone is doing great.

Biased? Maybe. Therapeutic? Absolutely.

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Myrtle Grove, NC

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+18888155502

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