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Recovery Coach
A Recovery Coach is a seasoned treatment professional who functions as a guide to those newly clean and sober (or returning after a relapse). The Recovery Coach will meet with the client from weekly to several times per week to work on a variety of recovery-related issues, including (but not limited to) the following:
- Identify areas which have presented or may present roadblocks to continued abstinence
- Facilitate the process necessary to remain free from drugs and alcohol.
- Support the client through challenges arising in everyday activities. For some, this is done through several one-on-one sessions each week. Some prefer telephone contact.
- Work with clients at any stage of recovery in the process of transitioning from sober living/treatment to their own home, or recently relapsed.
What is a Recovery Coach
A Sober Coach fills the gap between the indigenous recovering community (12-Step meetings, therapists, churches, etc.) and residential treatment facilities.
We provide a level of accountability that the indigenous recovering community cannot be expected to provide…and a connection to the client in their own living environment that treatment programs are simply unable to offer.
We understand the array of barriers that prevent addicts from defining, joining, and remaining in healthy environments. These barriers may be internal to the addict (low motivation or emotional, medical, mental or spiritual problems). There may also be external barriers that prevent addicts from safely meeting their needs related to housing, employment, nutrition, socialization, and transportation.
In addition to specialized, individualized goal-setting and skill-building, a Recovery Coach can often provide an invaluable service for those resistant to remaining abstinent from drugs and/or alcohol, but who must do so due to legal, medical, family or contractual obligations.
Working with other treatment professionals, the Recovery Coach determines client needs, defines boundaries, and explores how community, family, and business supports can best be utilized to maintain ongoing recovery.
Your Recovery Coach understands the relationships between these various barriers to the client’s recovery.
The Recovery Coach collaboratively develops a plan of action to address these barriers. Our Recovery Coaches have a working knowledge of community resources that help remove barriers – and strong personal experience in having such barriers removed. We have a great network of these resources and their various strengths and weaknesses.
A key service component is matching the client with the best resource for their individual needs. We provide accountability for the client to follow through with all areas of the plan of action.
- If you’re freshly out of treatment or detox, what are you supposed to do to protect the investment you have made in yourself?
- Structuring daily activities can be a lot harder than one might anticipate.
- Peace of mind, fun and happiness are hard to achieve in recovery without the necessary life skills. A Recovery Coach helps you build those.
- A Recovery Coach helps support the individual in catching up with missed time and building up life skills which were either forgotten or never learned.
- Adolescents in early recovery benefit greatly from having a professional relationship outside the 12-Step rooms – especially when that someone is a Recovery Coach who has been there before.
Each client sets weekly goals to fit his/her personal strengths and challenges. An empowerment approach is used to build self-esteem and confidence.
A Recovery Coach works with individuals at all stages of recovery, whether you are leaving residential treatment, currently in sober living, in an outpatient/day-patient program, in your own home, or recently relapsed.
Some cases require a few meetings each week, a few hours at a time. Some cases require many hours, seven days per week. Frequency & length of sessions are evaluated monthly. Meeting locations will vary depending on where the client is in their recovery, and what the person is currently working on.
Recovery Companion
A Recovery Companion provides time-intensive service. When the client is best served by around-the-clock attendance, or attendance for a greater number of hours per day, we make all the difference in the world. Our staff is available for local, national, and international travel. The Companion’s primary duties include:
- Provide a crucial service for those resistant to remaining abstinent, but who must do so due to legal, medical, family or contractual obligations.
- Reinforce the positive results of continued abstinence.
- Remind the client of the negative consequences of relapse.
- A Recovery Companion is particularly adept at running interference between the client and those who seek to provide drugs and/or alcohol to him or her.
- A Recovery Companion provides a sense of real companionship and camaraderie.