Burke Recovery

About Burke Recovery

Burke Recovery is a nonprofit substance use treatment and prevention agency in Morganton, North Carolina, serving adults and adolescents throughout Burke County. Their outlook draws on familiar recovery principles like “one day at a time” and “progress, not perfection,” and they stress steady, ongoing engagement over quick fixes. Care usually starts with a Comprehensive Clinical Assessment, which they use to diagnose a substance use disorder and build an individualized recovery plan. From there, clients continue into outpatient individual and group counseling.

In one-on-one sessions, clinicians use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and person-centered therapy to help clients build coping skills, set achievable goals, and work through underlying issues tied to their substance use. Group sessions cover relapse prevention and stress management, and clients can learn from peers facing similar struggles. They don’t prescribe medication-assisted treatment, but they do provide counseling for people already enrolled in a MAT program elsewhere, and their adolescent services reach young people from ages 6 to 18. They also lead several county-wide prevention efforts, including a school-referral program for students caught with tobacco, vapes, alcohol, or drugs, a life skills curriculum for middle and high schoolers, and the youth-led Trident Task Force.