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RECOVERY COACHING

Recovery Coaching is a branch of Life
Coaching specializing in working with people in recovery from
addiction. Recovery Coaches work with smoking cessasion, weight-loss
and over- or under-eating, drinking, gambling problems, drugs,
relationships, etc. Recovery Coaching works as well for clients
in 12 step Programmes as it does for clients who choose different
pathways to Recovery.
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN A RECOVERY COACH,
A COUNSELLOR AND A SPONSOR
A Recovery
Coach does not work on the past but works together with you
to identify goals and stumbling blocks in your present which
can affect your future.
A Recovery Coaching client is able to
identify a goal that is not just primarely emotional like
"wanting to stop being depressed" (which should
be monitored and treated by a trained counselor or therapist)
but is able to have and want to work towards goals such as
actions to take to relieve depression, changing diet, attitudes,
physical health and mental health so as to have a more enjoyable
life.
I also also work with clients on issues
such as changing a career, going through a life transition
without substance abuse, starting a business, etc.
Counsellors
give advice, which coaches rarely do. In counselling the counsellor
is the expert; in Coaching the client is the expert about
his or her own life. A coaching client is healthy and competent
enough to relate to the coach as a partner and not an expert.
A Sponsor
comes from a 12-step programme such as Overeaters Anonymous.
A sponsor benefits personally from the relationship in order
to stay clean and abstinent. A sponsor is not professionally
qualified to work one on one with a client except to help
clients work and use the the 12 steps as a way to recover.
The Recovery Coach has leaned techniques specific to working
with clients, ways to understand clients in recovery, different
ways of approaching an issue or problem sot that the client
remains creative and resourceful. The Recovery coach works
with the client to achieve his or her own personal goals without
judgement or criticism, and with support and attention.
Recovery Coaches are not professional
affiliated with 12-step Programmes but many Recovery Coaches
are actively involved in 12-step Programmes of Recovery.
By hiring a Recovery Coach such as Liana
Salvucci you will be able to get personal, recovery entreprenerial
coaching without having to explain what it means to be in
recovering from whatever your addiction means, as Liana has
had her own experiences with recovery. This makes her uniquely
qualified to work with other people in recovery.
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