Sobriety Together

Coaching | Training | Mentoring

What We Do

our mission

  • Empowering coaches, therapists, social workers and other professionals by providing specialized skills-building education and training for more effective support of clients’ addiction recovery priorities and sober life management goals

  • Enhancing professional standards for addiction recovery support through provision of premium education and training, and partnerships with credentialing and oversight organizations

  • Envisioning a complete continuum of care for people with substance use disorders

Coaching

Personalized, one-on-one life coaching to help you navigate your career, learn self-care skills, or address relationship or family issues.

Training

Continuing education and professional development for professionals working in addiction and recovery services. Compile CEUs and renew your license.

Mentoring

Work with experienced mentors to evaluate dilemmas in your practice, improve client care, and address potential burnout in your professional role.

Who We Work With

Recovery Peers

Recovery Coaching is a peer-based service model, developed and provided mainly by persons who are in recovery themselves, offering support for persons in, or seeking recovery from, substance use and other behavioral disorders. Similar to life and career/business coaching, the client (“recoveree” or “coachee”) focuses on achieving important self-identified goals while the coach provides expertise in supporting successful change.

Recovery Coaches (also known as Sober Coaches or Companions, Peer Advocates and Specialists) work with recoverees at any point in the continuum of care beginning with recovery initiation through stabilization and into recovery maintenance, recognizing that there are many pathways to recovery and that addiction recovery is a non-linear process. Recovery Coaching focuses on using current strengths to reach future goals, while the coach also serves as an accountability partner and a bridge to the wider recovery community.

Over the past decade, with the emergence of the evidence-based Recovery Oriented Systems of Care (ROSC) model and the major role that peers play in this model of service delivery, there has been increased interest in peer services.

Additionally, one of the transformational changes that Federal health care reform is bringing is an increasing focus on peer services, funding mechanisms to support peer services, and credentialing of peer services.

Thus, recovery peers are emerging as a creditable profession with a valued role in the continuum of care supporting addiction recovery.

Coaches

Professional life, career and executive coaches partner with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional abilities, which is particularly important in today’s uncertain and complex world.

Coaches honor the client as the expert in his or her life and work and believe every client is creative, resourceful and whole.

This coaching process helps clients dramatically improve their outlook on both work and life, while improving their leadership skills and unlocking their potential.

Success in the coaching relationship is measured in part by achievement of coaching goals established at the outset:

  • Internal self-validating assessments, changes in the individual’s self-awareness and awareness of others, shifts in thinking that create more effective actions, and confidence inspiring shifts in emotional states may be important indicators.
  • External measurements may include increased income/revenue, improved performance feedback, positive performance data.


The key issue for both coach and client is that these metrics be meaningful to the client.

COACHING: If you want to...

  • Become your true, authentic self

  • Elevate your self-esteem or self-confidence

  • Change your career or find a new job

  • Find your greatest potential – personally, professionally, or both

  • Develop some organization and time management tools to apply at home and at work

  • Get support if you or someone you love is facing a substance abuse issue

  • Address relationship or family issues

  • Learn self-care skills

  • Resolve obstacles or roadblocks that are getting in the way of you being the happiest, most fulfilled, most productive person you can be

TRAINING: If you want to...

  • Build your skills & knowledge about addiction and recovery

  • Continue your professional development

  • Extend your professional services

  • Compile CEUs and renew your professional license

  • Enhance your resume

  • Refocus or change your career

  • Explore entrepreneurial options

  • Network with your professional peers

  • Bridge the service gap in the continuum of care for persons with substance use disorders

  • Help dispel stigma and shame around addiction and recovery

  • Support excellence in the coaching profession

MENTORING: If you want to...

  • Practice self care and efficacy as a service provider

  • Monitor and develop your performance as a professional

  • Leverage the experience of professional mentors

  • Share and evaluate issues and dilemmas in your practice

  • Identify additional communications skills and strategies

  • Improve and assure quality of client care

  • Enhance your interactions with clients

  • Address potential burnout in your professional role

  • Connect classroom theory and service delivery

  • Promote ethical standards in the field

Learn How to Coach Clients in Addiction Recovery

One-day Professional Training Program for Certified Coaches.
Contact us for more information.

In Other News

ICF Teleclass on Addiction

Our thanks to the International Coach Federation for hosting the first of our educational series for coaches looking to deepen their understanding and practice of addiction and support their recovering clients. The May 2016 webinar was a great success!

Irish America Article

Irish America magazine celebrated its second annual Healthcare and Life Sciences 50 Awards Reception, co-hosted with ICON plc, on October 7, 2015 in Manhattan. Ruth Riddick, pictured with Irish America co-founder Niall O'Dowd, was honored as a pioneer in addiction treatment.

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