Tag Archives: recovery coach
What do I need to be a recovery coach?
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What is a recovery coach?
In 2013, I published Recovery Coaching – A Guide to Coaching People in Recovery from Addictions, since then the duties and responsibilities of recovery coaches, peer recovery support specialists and professional recovery coaches have expanded significantly. In this article, I … Continue reading
Lions, Tigers, Bears and the Yellow Brick Road to Recovery
This is a guest post by Steve Devlin, a recovery coach from Philadelphia PA, and a long time friend. I chose to post this over the Holiday weekend, because it brings me such joy, and brings back wonderful memories of watching … Continue reading
What is a recovery coach?
What is a recovery coach, a peer recovery support specialist or a professional recovery coach? In 2013, I published Recovery Coaching – A Guide to Coaching People in Recovery from Addictions, since then the duties and responsibilities of recovery coaches, … Continue reading
Recovery Coach Training Organizations – Free Listing
Does your organization want a free listing for your recovery coaching certification training? Every year this website updates the list of over 300 agencies, organizations and schools that offer certification training for recovery coaches working with people in recovery from addictions. This list receives … Continue reading
Recovery Coaching Texas Prison Style
Kyle Gage lives in Longview, Texas, and he is a recovery coach. Longview is a little oil and manufacturing town a couple of hours east of Dallas-Ft Worth and about an hour west of Shreveport, Louisiana. The small town has … Continue reading
Recovery Coaches to the Rescue
It is 5:30 am and a band of FBI and local sheriff authorities pull up to a New Jersey suburban house in a development not far from Philadelphia. Adorning Kevlar vests, and windbreakers with the yellow letters FBI on their backs, … Continue reading
Child Pornography – Part One
Possession of child pornography is a felony under federal law, as well as every state. Because I am a recovery coach, I know some offenders, and I had some questions. I wanted to know more about these viewers of child pornography. … Continue reading
What kind of certification do I need to be a recovery coach?
I published my book Recovery Coaching – A Guide to Coaching People in Recovery from Addictions in 2013. Since then, recovery coach or peer-recovery specialist certification training has become one of the fastest growing aspects of the coaching field. So what … Continue reading
What is the difference between a recovery coach, a peer recovery support specialist and a professional recovery coach?
I published my book Recovery Coaching – A Guide to Coaching People in Recovery from Addictions in 2013. A recovery coach, a peer recovery support specialist and a professional recovery coach’s job descriptions have expanded significantly since then. The organizations … Continue reading
On the Role of Peers in Recovery
This article was published in thefix.com on June 10,2015. Click here for the article: http://www.thefix.com/tags/professional-voices Do peers have a unique way of connecting with clients? As the treatment of addiction moves inexorably toward inclusion in the larger healthcare system, with … Continue reading
How does a Recovery Coach work with a Treatment Team?
Recovery coaching services are starting to be more widely used, more often within the finest treatment centers. Yet, there are still addicts in crisis, or families with loved ones in inpatient substance-abuse treatment that are unaware that such services exist. Many … Continue reading