Recovery Coaching

Overview

Recovery Coaching

What Is a Recovery Coach?

 

FOR-NH Recovery Coaches are people who have experience with their own recovery paths and are trained to help you with yours.

They are allies and mentors who work with you to:

  • Create a vision for your recovery.
  • Identify and remove barriers.
  • Access community resources.

What Recovery Coaches Do

A recovery coach helps you create and follow your personal Recovery Wellness Plan. Together, you will identify the steps and services that will help you succeed.

FOR-NH Recovery Coaches:

  • Help you stop addictive behaviors  or reduce the harm associated with them.
  • Support all paths to recovery.
  • Have experience with their own recovery path and are trained to help you with yours.
  • Focus on the future.
  • Support positive change and build community support.
  • Help you enhance the quality of your personal and family life.
  • Provide encouragement and reminders of accomplishments.

All conversations are confidential.

What About Other Problems?

People who begin recovery often have other difficulties, such as unemployment, lack of stable housing, legal problems, marital problems, childcare, transportation issues, health and dental issues, and more.

A coach can connect you with resources that help, including treatment and mental health services, educational opportunities, shelter, food, clothing, and vehicle providers and others.

People who have more stability and peace in their lives stand a better chance of sustaining their recovery from substance abuse or addiction.

What If You Already Have a Sponsor or a Counselor?

 

Each person supports you in a different way.

  • A counselor provides clinical support based on formal education and a particular treatment philosophy.
  • A 12-step sponsor provides recovery support and guides you through the step model of recovery based on his or her own experience.
  • Recovery Coaches provide support based on training and their own experience. A coach  will help you define and achieve goals you choose.

The Recovery Coach does not:

  • Diagnose any addiction.
  • Treat addiction.
  • Monitor abstinence.
  • Dictate what someone’s recovery will look like.
  • Tell the recovering person what to do or how to do it.