What Coaching Is
Coaches believe in your inner capacity for change. Using collaborative approaches and tools, we support your personal recovery from addiction (drugs, alcohol or other addictions), and from the heartache and life-challenges associate with it.
Recovery Coaching is:
- Client-led — your goals, your pace, your process
- Open & Flexible — many options & many paths to recovery
- Strength-based — we focus on your capabilities, not your deficits
- Solution-based — we work towards your goals, not dwelling on historical misses
- Future-focused — what matters now, what comes next, how do you get there
- Collaborative — you are the expert of your own life, coaches are just exeriential guides
- Compassionate & non-judgmental — a safe place to think, feel, choose, and learn from mistakes
- Based on defined tools - your coach is professionally trained to use many support tools to guide you in your recovery
What Recovery Coaches Don't Do
Coaching complements clinical and therapeutic services—it doesn’t replace them. Coaching is not instructional, it is collaborative.
Recovery Coaching does NOT:
- Specific to a single path to recovery from addition
- Direct, dictate terms, or provide ultimatums
- Diagnose or assess mental health conditions
- Provide clinical treatment
- Offer psychotherapy or therapeutic interventions
- Replace detox, treatment, or medical care
Recovery Coaches are NOT:
- In charge of your recovery - you are!
- Therapists or Counsellors
- 12-step Sponsors
- Case managers or Crisis-response professionals
