Meta House Shorewood House location

Meta House Inc stands apart in the Milwaukee recovery landscape by directing every level of its substance use treatment toward women. Rather than offering a general addiction treatment program with a women's track, Meta House is built from the ground up around the experiences, challenges, and recovery needs specific to women — including those who are pregnant and those who are deaf or hard of hearing.

This focus shapes everything from the clinical approach to the recovery community women enter when they begin treatment. Women in residential treatment, outpatient programs, or IOP at Meta House are surrounded by peers who share similar life circumstances, which research consistently links to stronger long-term recovery outcomes. For Milwaukee-area women seeking a substance abuse treatment center that speaks directly to their experience, Meta House offers that rare alignment.

Meta House offers residential treatment for women who need full immersion in a recovery-focused environment, where daily structure supports early and sustained sobriety. For women who have completed residential treatment or who enter recovery with a stable home environment, the outpatient program provides continued clinical support while allowing them to maintain work, family, and community commitments.

The intensive outpatient program (IOP) fills the space between residential and standard outpatient care, offering a higher frequency of therapeutic contact without requiring an overnight stay. This graduated continuum means a woman can begin her recovery journey at the level of care that matches her current needs and transition smoothly as her stability grows — all within the same recovery center and community.

For many women entering substance abuse treatment, substance use disorder does not exist in isolation. Meta House addresses trauma and PTSD as confirmed conditions treated alongside substance use disorder, and the center is equipped to work with women managing co-occurring mental health and substance use challenges through dual diagnosis care.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is part of the clinical toolkit at Meta House, giving women structured methods to identify and shift the thought patterns and behavioral responses that contribute to substance use and complicate recovery. By treating the full scope of what a woman brings into treatment — not only the substance use — Meta House supports the kind of durable recovery that extends well beyond the end of a formal program.

Recovery does not end when a residential treatment stay or outpatient program concludes. Meta House offers recovery housing as an aftercare support option, giving women a stable, sober living environment to bridge the transition between structured treatment and independent life in the community. This continuity of support is a key factor in long-term recovery success, particularly for women rebuilding housing stability alongside sobriety.

Meta House accepts Medicaid, private insurance, self-pay and cash, and offers both sliding scale fees and financial assistance — options that reflect a genuine commitment to reaching women across a wide range of financial circumstances in the Milwaukee area. To learn more or to begin the admissions process, contact Meta House at (414) 962-1200, Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM.