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Structured Sober Living in Connecticut for Adults
RIGHT
PATH
HOUSE
In the welcoming shoreline towns of Madison and Clinton Connecticut, we’re helping reshape what sober living can be for recovering adults. At Right Path House at Acorn Hill (for women) and RPM (Right Path Men's) on Elmwood, we’ve elevated the idea of a sober home into a true recovery residence—where residents have every opportunity to thrive. With access to experienced clinical resources from the community, daily professional and peer-led supports inside the house, and an intentional design that fosters connection, our homes are built for growth. This gentle structure with roots in the 12-step tradition, our residence offers a fresh environment where change can happen and where recovery feels both supportive and empowering.
RPM
Recovery Residence
for Men
Right Path House
Recovery Residence for Women
What makes us different
Our Approach is Whole Person
Our approach empowers adults in recovery by providing a safe, CTARR certified, (sober living home) recovery residence where compassion and accountability converge under our roof. We commit to helping you with recovery coaching, setting up the perfect 12 step meeting schedule, a gym schedule, a solid 'sober' job, and finding the perfect wraparound clinical support. If you are ready to try "doing something different because you want different results", we're especially aligned with finding supports that can make a difference like neurofeedback, EMDR, really digging into the steps or experiencing equine. We center around honoring the dignity of all and finding the small, positive outcomes to turn recovery into a durable path forward.
Neurofeedback and recovery
We've found that Neurofeedback can often help residents that have a history of multiple rehab experiences. It's an optional add-on that's conveniently located onsite. Neurofeedback trains brain activity using real-time feedback to improve emotional regulation and reduce hyperarousal, which can lower symptoms of anxiety and impulsivity.
About Our Design
Our Design Builds Integration and Construction
What unites any 12-step community? It's the deeply human search for connection, meaning, and sustainable transformation that's provided and witnessed within a fellowship of equals, one day and one story at a time. In-house, we actively create connection through our shared dinners and morning meetings for those not at IOP. Plus, house outings to the beach, hiking trails or enjoying any one of the interesting activities in the greater New Haven/Connecticut Shore area. We're also host to our local women's AA community by opening our doors to a Women's Speaker Meeting every Wednesday evening.
A Welcome
Our In-House Culture Starts With Our Coaches
Because we're committed to safety, dignity, and respect, all our communication practices are trauma informed. Our coaches engage in on-going training because our goal is a culture where honesty is met with support and even the smallest demonstration of courage is recognized. Our culture is also supported by our on-going requirement that everyone of us, from staff to residents, be engaged with an experienced therapist and 12-step sponsor.
Welcome
Our Value
The value of Right Path House lies in our integrative approach: we provide individualized and family coaching, easily source one‑on‑one clinical support from nearby experts, and offer recovery life in a safe, resource rich Connecticut shoreline town(s). This combination of personal guidance, professional collaboration, and community setting empowers adult women to build lasting recovery with dignity, hope, and support. Plus, our coaches go through a training program that allows them to help de-escalate, offer compassion with accountability, and motivate residents to use their authentic voice.
We crafted our sober living Connecticut based program on the decades of research that SAMHSA provides on long-term recovery. There are four main stays, or pillars: (1) a community of peers, (2) a sense of purpose, (3) safety for a recovering person in the house and (4) a program of wellness that encompasses a whole life.
In addition to working with their coach, we believe that each person also needs a clinician and a sponsor with whom they can truly and genuinely connect. We hand-pick clinical specialists from the surrounding area for in-person and for virtual, the selection extends to the entire state of Connecticut. Sponsors are chosen by the resident within the first few weeks. There are two recommended intensive outpatient services near us and many opportunities for work. No matter what, the resident has the final word in all their choices.
Our Collaboration
We partner closely with hand-selected rehabs to create a seamless continuum of care that honors each resident’s dignity and practical needs. We coordinate with rehabs for a smooth bed-to-bed transfer. Residents move from the intensive care phase of their recovery journey into our community‑based sober house CT setting without losing momentum. Our collaboration includes coordinating clinical recommendations, bed-to-bed transfers, and shared relapse‑prevention strategies.
Our Credentials
We are CTARR certified, referred to by major rehabs in the tri-state area, and also have been featured in an NPR article as a "Sober House Trying to Make A Difference". Read here about our trying to change the status quo and improve sober living. We are also certified by Connecticut sanctioned CTARR, the Connecticut Association of Recovery Residences, which is part of the nationally recognized standard bearer for all levels of sober homes, the National Association for Recovery Residences or NARR. Read here what our former residents say about us.
Co-Founders are Lisa Ferguson and Rob Schiffer and a host of supportive people with a few rehabs that took a chance on us when we first started in 2015. With backgrounds in personal recovery, personal family recovery, business, insurance, education, and a love for science, horses, construction, education, and 12-step recovery, hope arrives as we put our all care and skills into use.