About Owl's Nest Recovery
Since 2001, Owl's Nest Recovery has helped hundreds of men and women find lasting freedom from drug and alcohol addiction.
Located on 13 wooded acres in Florence, South Carolina, we are a Joint Commission-accredited treatment center offering a continuum of care spanning intensive PHP programming to sober living.
We remain privately owned, and our program has always been built around one core belief: that recovery is possible for anyone willing to reach out for help.
Owl's Nest Recovery: The Past
Owl’s Nest Recovery (formerly known as The Owl’s Nest and Owl’s Club International) was founded in 2001 as an alternative to the typical residential addiction treatment center.
Our founder spent years cycling through more than 25 treatment programs without finding lasting recovery. It wasn't until he worked the Twelve Steps through Alcoholics Anonymous that things finally changed. What he found in recovery — community, accountability, a reason to get up in the morning — was something he wanted to make available to others. In 2001, he opened The Owl's Nest as a 12-bed recovery house for men, grounded in the principles of AA and built around the idea that healing happens in community, not in isolation.
The early program was simple by design: personal responsibility, self-discipline, and connection. It worked. Word spread. The program grew to include women, added vocational rehabilitation and transitional living, and over time began weaving in individual counseling, psychoeducational groups, CBT, DBT, EMDR, mindfulness, and case management while building a full clinical continuum around the 12-Step foundation that started it all.
Owl's Nest Recovery: The Present
Today, Owl’s Nest Recovery offers a total of 110 beds at our peaceful campus in Florence, SC. We remain privately owned, with a commitment to providing an environment and culture of compassionate healing that allows each individual to focus on their recovery from addiction and mental health issues.
To that end, we provide addiction treatment and evidence-based practices combining total abstinence with clinical psychotherapy and a dynamic approach to the Twelve Step model of recovery. The end result is a new freedom and happiness — the likes of which many of our clients have never known.
We offer a variety of treatment types customized to the needs of each individual client.
Partial Hospitalization Program for Addiction
Our PHP is the most intensive level of outpatient care we offer: full-day programming, five days a week, built for clients who need significant clinical structure during the early stages of recovery.
Intensive Outpatient Program for Addiction
IOP offers structured treatment several days per week with the flexibility to maintain work, school, or family responsibilities. It serves as both a step-down from PHP and a starting point for clients whose clinical picture allows for less intensive care.
Addiction Recovery - Supportive Housing
Often, clients entering PHP or IOP do not have a safe and supportive home environment to return to in between treatment sessions. For that reason, we offer recovery-supportive housing as a supplement to treatment. Men and women undergoing drug and alcohol addiction treatment can live on-site at our beautiful rustic campus in Florence, SC, benefitting from the natural atmosphere and supportive environment of our community.
Dealing with a substance or alcohol use disorder can be incredibly lonely. You may feel like no one understands the struggle, and that you are battling addiction on your own. While we believe in the importance of accountability and an independent desire to improve your life, you don’t need to go through addiction treatment and recovery on your own. Our recovery-supportive housing gives you the safety and support you need to complete a successful course of treatment and let new hope take flight in recovery.
Sober Living & Addiction Treatment Aftercare
In fact, many residents enjoy our recovery community so much that they stay on after graduation as alumni. Our sober living allows them to continue to benefit from the support and accountability of the community while beginning to venture out into the world. Current residents also can benefit from the experience, strength, and hope that our vibrant on-site alumni community provides.
Our alumni are more than just a number. Completing one of our addiction treatment programs grants clients exclusive membership to a fellowship and family that they will have forever. Owl’s Nest alumni can be found across the country, but they are always welcome back to the facility to share their experience, strength, and hope with the newest residents.
In fact, most of our staff members are alumni themselves! This allows us to provide a unique support system for residents. Our team has been in your shoes and can walk with you to your new future.
Owl's Nest Recovery
Our mission has not changed since 2001: to give people a real chance at lasting recovery.
We do that by combining the accountability of the 12-Step model with the clinical depth of modern addiction treatment — and by building a community where clients are treated as people, not cases.
We recover here. And we believe anyone can.
Addiction Treatment Testimonials
We are proud to have helped hundreds of men and women find the freedom of addiction recovery.
They set me up for success in recovery.
“I have been several treatment centers over the past 10 years trying to find a new way of life. I have been to facilities in West Palm Beach which were 40,000-50,000 dollars a month to state run centers that were free of charge. I was completely hopeless and broken before the Owls Nest. This is by far the best place I have been to, that has set me up for success in recovery.”
I owe everything to this place.
"I owe everything to this place and the staff, people who truly care."
Recommend!
“Recommend! I actually just left there. The staff and residents are forever a part of my life.”
