Certified Recovery Coach

What is a Recovery Coach?

Recovery Coaches, also known as Sober Coaches, provide part time support for people entering recovery who are looking for help navigating early recovery. Sober Coaches provide encouragement, accountability, wisdom, and experience. We help clients implement the skills they’ve learned in treatment and translate those lessons into the real world. Sober Coaches help clients identify potential danger before it arises. We help clients to identify goals and implement specific action plans to achieve their dreams and develop a sober lifestyle Coaching can be set up for just a few hours a week, or for every afternoon, or for eight hours a day/7 days a week—the schedule can be tailored to the client’s specific needs and goals.

Some clients are not comfortable having a roommate, such as a Sober Companion, and desire their space. At the same time, they are well aware of the pitfalls of attempting to navigate recovery completely on their own. Imagine how much more secure and confident a client feels knowing that they have someone engaged in their recovery with them, someone they can trust and count on to have their best interests in mind at all times.

What do Recovery Coaches Do?

Recovery happens on a continuum. It is not an event that happens, but a lifelong journey to health and well being. I help clients gravitate more consistently toward choices and behaviors that bring desirable rewards. I also hold them accountable to the undesirable consequences that poor choices and behaviors create.

My clients can expect to witness real improvement in their lives as they begin to realize their short and long-term goals. I am a skilled communicator and can convey practical guidance to my clients in the one-on-one setting that helps the client improve their own communication skills. As they learn new communication skills they are then equipped to take responsibility for the relationships in their lives. As a result, families, loved ones, co-workers and friends become beneficiaries of my process.

I do not act as a client’s therapist. There is little emphasis on the past or related traumas and they do not diagnose or treat addiction or mental health issues. Rather, I place focus on the client’s strengths, dreams, objectives, and the choices they make and actions they take each day.

I provide their expertise, guidance, skills, and own success in recovery to help define and support the steps defined in the Life Action Plan. This dynamic with my clients is what sows the seeds to enact powerful change that leads to successful day-to-day living. I ask the tough questions and listen carefully to the answers; helping to reflect back with clarity my client’s own intentions for themselves and their lives.