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WHAT IS A RECOVERY COACH?
Motivator • Exhibits faith in ability to change
• Encourages and celebrates recovery achievements
Confidant • Genuinely cares and listens
• Can be trusted with confidences
Truth Teller • Provides feedback on recovery process
Role Model/Mentor     • Offers her/his life as living proof of the transformative
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• Provides stage-appropriate recovery education
Problem Solver • Helps resolve perosnal and environmental obstacles to
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Resource Broker • Links individuals and families to formal and indigenous
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Community Organizer • Helps develop and expand available recovery support
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Lifestyle Consultant

• Assists individuals and families to develop sobriety-
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Adovcate • Helps individuals and family navigate service systems
A coach draws legitimacy from experiential knowledge and experiential expertise, i.e. experiential knowledge is information acquired about addiction recovery through the process of one's own recovery or being with others through the recovery process; offer sustained living proof of their expertise as a recovery guide.

What a Recovery Coach can provide that an addiction counselor may not?
  • Wounded healer tradition which has been eroded
  • Psychology of infection hope and strength
  • Target is environment as well as clients thoughts, feelings and behaviors
  • Designed to shift the connection between treatment cents and indigenous cultures of recovery
  • From one passive referral, i.e. encourage attendance at self-help groups to assertive linkage, i.e. guided exposure to multiple local communities of recovery
  • Offers a role that is less hierarchical and less commercialized
  • Offers the individual seeking recovery a sustained recovery alliance
  • Recovery coaches are seeking to meet needs not being addressed
 
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