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How is a Recovery Coach different from a Therapist?

Recovery coaching is not a substitute for therapy. If clients have deep-seated emotional or psychological pain, then a good coach will refer the client to the appropriate specialist (coaches are often Generalists). You will sometimes find that the coaching and the therapy can run side by side.Coaching focuses on the present and future, therapy focuses primarily on the past. In therapy the question is how are past issues affecting the present. In coaching the question is what can be done today to move the client forward to reach their goals.

How is a Recovery Coach different from a Doctor?

If there are physical problems, again a good coach will refer the client to a specialist. A client needs to be in sufficiently good physical and mental health to respond to the demands of recovery coaching – both to the relationship and the outcomes.

How is a Recovery Coach different from a Counsellor?

Counsellors are often in the business of giving advice, but coaches generally try not to. Counselling assumes a relationship where the counselor is the expert. Coaching assumes that the client is the expert (about his or her own life).

How is a Recovery Coach different from a Mentor?

Often, mentoring is seen as a model for coaching. A mentor is someone who can pass on knowledge based on experience, a wise person, an advisor or a trusted role model. A coach is a facilitator who can help develop new skills with an eye on the future. A coach  helps people gain competence and confidence.

How is a Recovery Coach different from a Sponsor?

Sponsors are involved with 12 step programmes like Alcoholics Anonymous, Sex Addicts Anonymous, and Debtor’s Anonymous. They would have completed the steps themselves and then help others along the same road.Sponsors are not paid professionals; they benefit personally from the service they give by staying clean and sober or abstinent themselves. They stick with the steps and traditions. Often the focus is on cleaning up the past.

How is a Recovery Coach different from Family & Friends?

Coaches differ from personal helpers such as friends and family because coaches don’t have the same emotional investment. Coaches do not have pre-conceived ideas about their clients because they do not know a client in the same way that friends and family do. This means that a recovery coach can me more objective and non- judgemental. Coaches are not influenced by a client’s past.

Conclusion

Recovery Coaching can be distinguished from other professional relationships in that coaching is based on partnership. Counsellors, doctors, and therapists and mentors often have expert knowledge that they impart in the form of advice, diagnosis, or providing a solution. A coach’s job is to get the client to think in a different way! Coaches rarely give advice.  Instead, they work with clients to arrive at their own solutions, and then support them to stay on track to bring about change.

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We often feel that ‘just one more time’ is a step too far. The thing that has overcome us now stands on the victory side, and we are a defeated. We may go through many challenges in life. Addiction, financial ruin, divorce and bereavement are just some of the ‘things’ that life throws at us. Can we really recover from these traumas and move forward?

Recover Coaching answers this question in the affirmative. Not only can we recover from life’s traumas, but with the right coaching support, we can become stronger and move forward in ways that we did not think were possible.

Recovery coaching does not deal with the past issues or traumas – for example it will not explain why an addiction has occurred, nor identify the causes.

So what does recovery coaching do?

1. Recovery coaching deals with ‘the here and now’. It encourages clients to look forward and not let their past dictate their future.

2. Recovery coaching recognises future potential not past performance.

3. Recovery coaching assumes that there is a positive attitude in clients who seek to improve their lives through coaching and that this in itself provides the first step to recovery.

4. Recovery coaching helps clients define their own values and strengths to find their way to success because it believes that clients who are clear about their life goals and values are better able to achieve and maintain a long-term recovery.

5. Recovery coaching would agree with Robert H. Schuller in saying, “Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.”

6. Recovery coaching recognizes that pursuit is the evidence of desire, and that we change in the process of pursuing that which we desire. Zig Ziglar said it best, “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

7. Recovery coaching recognizes that people in recovery may lack some life-skills or need new skills to move forward.

8. Recovery coaching helps clients fill in the gaps by  encouraging them to know that learning is part of life, whether they need budgeting skills or a vocational qualification.

9. Recovery coaching is about asking the right questions. Sometimes, powerful motivational questions are needed to allow clients to think in a different way, thus enabling them to overcome a stuck point in their recovery process.

10. Recovery coaching recognises that recovery is a process not a one-time event, and helps clients to move forward from one stage to the next by helping them decide what is right for them.

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