Recovery Coaching
Taking a Personalized Approach
Do You Want To Make Changes?
You’ve been drinking or consuming drugs to excess, and it’s showing. Your life is beginning to fray at the edges. You recognize that you’re in or on the verge of a downward spiral.
Perhaps things are not so bad, but they could get worse – and you want to avoid that. You want to change your current situation.
But you’re overwhelmed. It feels like it’s too much to do on your own.
Let’s do this together.
With the guidance of an experienced, well-trained, certified and credentialed Recovery Coach (Sober Coach), and a clear plan in place, you can absolutely change your situation.
Our diverse team of Recovery Coaches have personal and professional experience in all facets substance use, addiction and mental health systems of recovery, which makes us a well-rounded asset to those we work with. And if drugs or alcohol are not playing a large part in your current situation, the mental health experts on our team can still help you through whatever you’re dealing with.
What is Recovery Coaching?
Recovery Coaching is a collaborative, strengths-based approach to changing your relationship to alcohol or drugs, getting healthy, and living a better life.
Changing your relationship to alcohol or drugs is no small feat, and every person comes to recovery with a different idea of what they want to achieve.
When you hire us as your Recovery Coach professional, we work together to identify and design a personalized change-plan with your goals, your schedule, and a better life in mind.
You are the expert on your dream of a better future for yourself. Your Sober Coach is the expert on setting you up to live your dreams beyond recovery.
If you’re saying yes to alcohol or drugs, what are you saying no to?
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Create Your Recovery Roadmap
It can be scary to arrive at the realization that you have a drinking or substance use problem, no matter how big or small. But it’s a lot less scary when you have an experienced guide to help you sort things out.
If you’re interested in exploring 1:1 Recovery Coaching to help you cut back your drinking, take a break or substance use, or perhaps you’d like to stop entirely, we’re happy to answer your questions.
Our team provides virtual support worldwide, as well as limited in-person support in Canada.
And to get you started, we offer a complimentary consultation to anyone who has questions about their own substance use, or the substance use of a family member.
These calls are completely confidential, with no pressure to make a decision before you feel entirely ready.
Consider reaching out directly today.
Sober Coaching FAQs
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When is the best time to utilize a Sober Coach?
- Are you ready now? Most people know inside if it’s the right time.
- Ask yourself, if you’re regularly saying yes to alcohol or drugs, what are you saying no to?
- The beauty about Sober Coaching is it serves your needs, no matter where you’re at in your life or recovery process.
- Maybe you’re just starting to become concerned with your level of consumption and want to begin cutting back.
- Perhaps you’ve successfully stopped drinking several times, but struggle to remain alcohol-free.
- Even if you have a significant amount of recovery and sobriety under your belt, Recovery Coaching helps you stay engaged in your process of change.
- Sober Coaching serves as an excellent place to triage your needs. When you aren’t sure what level of treatment you need, your Recovery Coach will help you put together a plan that includes additional mental health support.
- Your Recovery Coach can also help decide if you are a good candidate for more formal recovery programs, such as detox facilities, inpatient treatment centres, and intensive outpatient programs.
- You may first be connected with a Recovery Coach while at an in-patient treatment centre. In this scenario, your Coach will help develop an aftercare plan during your transition to home life, or into a sober living residence.
- No matter where you’re currently at, there are many ways a Sober Coach can fit into your plan.
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What is Sober Coaching?
- Recovery Coaching and Sober Coaching are used interchangeably. Most people are referring to the same type of work when using these terms.
- Recovery Coaching is an emerging niche paraprofessional occupation that provides support in the field of substance use and addiction services in Canada.
- A Sober Coach (aka Recovery Coach) is a professionally trained accountability partner that works to help you explore and improve your relationship to drugs or alcohol. With a sober coach you dive into the reasons why you drink or use substances in the first place, and establish healthier ways to meet your needs on your journey to sobriety.
- The goal is not to only help you stop drinking or using, but to help you anchor into your bigger aspirations and dreams so you can live your best life. The easy part is reducing consumption or stopping altogether. The hard part is recreating your life around this particular behavioural change.
- A Recovery Coach plays many roles, including champion, guide, mentor, truth teller, and advocate.
- A Sober Coach helps you see:
- What’s possible for you
- What’s keeping you stuck, and
- How to move forward with a game-changing plan
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Where and how frequently do we meet?
- A plan is customized for your situation, so the specifics of how often we meet vary depending on your needs.
- Currently all of our work is virtual.
- Online Recovery Coaching is just as effective as in-person work, enabling you to develop the necessary rapport and trust with your Sober Coach in order to create dynamic outcomes.
- Doing the work digitally means we can connect with anyone in any location. We currently work with clients in Canada, the USA, Europe and SE Asia. However, we recognize you may need in-person contact.
- Frequency of sessions depends on your needs:
- Some clients start with weekly 60-minute sessions for the first 4-6 weeks, and then taper frequency and duration to bi-weekly with 30-minute sessions.
- For those who need more contact and structure we engage 30-minute sessions twice-weekly for the first month.
- We are flexible to your needs, and will work to develop a plan that fits your schedule.
- Some clients use our services for 3 to 6 months, others 6 to 12 months, and some stay with us for two or more years.