Recovery coaching is a form of strength-based support for individuals in or seeking recovery from substance use disorders, mental health challenges, or other life-disrupting conditions.

Unlike therapy or clinical treatment, recovery coaching focuses on helping people set and reach personal goals, build recovery capital, and maintain long-term recovery through empowerment and accountability.

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Key Aspects of Recovery Coaching:

• Peer-Based Support: Most recovery coaches are people in long-term recovery themselves. They use their lived experience to relate, inspire hope, and build trust.
   

• Goal-Oriented: Coaches help individuals define what recovery means to them—whether that includes sobriety, harm reduction, rebuilding relationships, finding employment, or developing healthy routines.
   

• Non-Clinical Role: Recovery coaches are not therapists or counselors. They don't diagnose or treat disorders but instead walk alongside someone as a mentor, motivator, and advocate.
   

• Holistic Focus: They support all pathways to recovery—12-step, faith-based, secular, medication-assisted, or otherwise—and work across all areas of life: housing, employment, social support, legal issues, etc.
   

• Accountability Partner: Coaches check in regularly, helping clients stay on track with their recovery goals while providing encouragement and celebrating milestones.
   

• Resource Connector: They help people navigate systems—finding detox, treatment, support groups, housing, or healthcare—tailored to the person's needs.

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What a Coach Is Not:

• Not a therapist, sponsor, or clinician

• Not a substitute for detox, treatment, or medical care.

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