RECOVERY COACHING

Recovery coaching is provided by a recovery coach, i.e. a person with his/her own lived experience with addiction, and at the same time a professional who has developed an insight into his/her addiction, is himself/herself in recovery and has undergone adequate training - which is exactly me ;). Recovery coaching has a more positive context than the prevailing image of classic "hard" addiction treatment. It uses the concept of recovery, reframing the situation from "You are addicted, therefore you are bad and sick; you are weak and don't have strong enough will to stop, you MUST abstain and go to some health institution for treatment" to "Do you WANT to change your relationship with yourself and with the substances you use?; do you want to recover from your difficulties and find your own, healthy way how to live? I will help you with that". Coach's own experience with substance use and addiction recovery ensures a great deal of empathy and a relationship full of real understanding and support. I provide recovery coaching both independently and as part of a complex addiction therapy model; I see addiction primarily as an opportunity to look within ourselves, to compassionately deal with what we find there; and to grow and blossom :).