Women's Trauma Treatment | The Cove at Momentum Recovery

Women's Trauma Treatment in Wilmington, NC

Created by women and led by women, The Cove at Momentum Recovery is a specialized trauma treatment program for women. Our gender-specific residential program is supervised by a multidisciplinary clinical team and combines evidence-based trauma therapies with the kind of community, care, and coastal environment where long-term healing becomes possible.

Momentum Recovery is accredited by The Joint Commission and is a proud member of the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers, reflecting our commitment to the highest standards of clinical care.

Why Women Need Specialized Trauma Care

Trauma is not one thing, and it doesn't show up the same way in every person. For many women, it arrives quietly across years of complex relational wounds. For others, it arrives in a single moment that rewrites everything that comes after. For most, it lives somewhere in between.

What the research makes clear is that women carry a disproportionate burden of trauma and its consequences. Women are nearly twice as likely as men to develop post-traumatic stress disorder over the course of their lives. Approximately 75% of individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder are women, a condition that research increasingly links to early and chronic trauma. Women are also nearly twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with depression, with hormonal shifts, life transitions, and societal pressure compounding the picture.

These statistics reflect the reality that the women who walk through our doors are living with. And they are the reason that treating women in a gender-specific, trauma-focused environment is a clinical necessity.

At The Cove, we understand that trauma rarely travels alone. Depression, anxiety, disordered eating, self-harm, and substance use are often not the core problem. They are the coping strategies that made sense at the time. Our trauma-focused approach works beneath the surface to address what is actually driving the pain.

Primary Trauma Treatment

Change Management

Healing Through Experience

The coastline of Wilmington is more than scenery, it is a clinical environment. Cassidy McFadden, CTRS, LRT, leads The Cove's recreation therapy programming with a clinical intentionality grounded in the well-established relationship between physical experience, nervous system regulation, and trauma recovery.

Surfing, kayaking, stand-up paddleboarding, boating, yoga, horticulture, swimming, and more give women a chance to practice presence, regulation, and connection outside the walls of a therapy room. They are structured therapeutic experiences designed to meet women in the parts of trauma recovery that verbal therapy alone cannot fully access. Experiential therapy is woven into every phase of The Cove's continuum.

When Substances Are Part of the Story

For many women who come to The Cove, substance use is part of the picture, but rarely the whole story. Alcohol, pills, or other substances often become the most available tool for managing trauma symptoms, numbing pain, or finding relief when nothing else has worked. That is a human response to an unbearable weight.

Because we treat trauma as the primary clinical focus, we are also equipped to address substance use as the co-occurring condition it frequently is. Our dual-diagnosis approach ensures that the relationship between trauma and substance use is understood and treated together, not as separate problems requiring separate programs. For women arriving with both, The Cove holds space for all of it.