Addiction Recovery Coaching and Outpatient Support
Recovery involves more than stopping a substance or changing a harmful behaviour. It often means learning how to manage emotions, respond differently to triggers, rebuild relationships, care for your physical and mental health and create a life that feels meaningful and worth protecting.
Addiction recovery coaching provides practical, personalised support as you work towards these changes. Together, we identify what is getting in the way, strengthen the resources available to you and develop manageable steps that support recovery in everyday life.
You do not need to have everything figured out before beginning. We start with where you are now and work towards what is realistic, meaningful and sustainable for you.
Recovery shaped around you...
There is no single pathway to recovery that works for everyone.
Your recovery plan needs to reflect your circumstances, strengths, needs, values, relationships and responsibilities. Coaching provides a collaborative space in which you can explore what recovery means for you and develop an approach that can be applied in your daily life.
The work is forward-looking, but it does not ignore the experiences that have shaped you. When past experiences, trauma, loss or difficult relationships continue to affect your wellbeing, we can recognise their impact while remaining focused on the support, choices and changes you need now.
Recovery coaching may support you whether you are:
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considering making a change to your substance use or behaviour;
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beginning recovery and needing structure and support;
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returning to recovery after a lapse or relapse;
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leaving inpatient treatment and adjusting to everyday life;
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maintaining long-term recovery but feeling stuck or disconnected;
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supporting your mental health alongside your recovery;
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trying to rebuild relationships, routines, purpose or confidence.
What can we work on together?
The focus of coaching will depend on what is most important in your recovery. Our work may include:
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creating a personalised recovery and wellbeing plan;
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identifying triggers, urges, cravings and relapse warning signs;
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developing practical relapse-prevention strategies;
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understanding the needs or emotions beneath harmful behaviour;
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building healthier routines and coping skills;
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improving emotional awareness and regulation;
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strengthening self-worth and reducing shame;
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setting and maintaining healthy boundaries;
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improving communication and managing conflict;
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rebuilding trust and relationships;
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developing recovery-supportive habits and environments;
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increasing connection, purpose and meaningful activity;
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strengthening your physical, emotional, mental, social and spiritual recovery resources;
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setting realistic goals and putting them into manageable action.
Recovery is not about becoming perfect or never struggling. It is about becoming better able to recognise what is happening, respond with greater awareness and use support before difficulties become a crisis.
Building Recovery Capital
Recovery capital refers to the internal and external resources that help a person begin and sustain recovery. These resources may include your physical health, emotional skills, knowledge, relationships, community connections, living environment, daily structure, personal values, sense of purpose and access to professional or peer support.
Together, we can identify the areas of your recovery capital that are already strong and the areas that need further attention. The aim is not simply to avoid relapse, but to build a life in which recovery is increasingly supported by the way you live.
Physical Recovery Capital: Supporting sleep, nutrition, movement, healthcare, daily routines and a safe living environment.
Emotional Recovery Capital: Learning to recognise, tolerate and respond to difficult emotions without returning automatically to harmful coping behaviours.
Mental Recovery Capital: Developing self-awareness, flexible thinking, practical coping skills and a clearer understanding of addiction and recovery.
Social Recovery Capital: Building healthy relationships, support networks, boundaries and a greater sense of connection and belonging.
Spiritual Recovery Capital: Exploring meaning, purpose, values, hope and the principles that guide how you want to live.
What Recovery Coaching Can Offer
Recovery coaching can provide:
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a consistent and non-judgemental space to talk honestly;
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practical tools that can be used in everyday situations;
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encouragement during periods of uncertainty or difficulty;
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accountability for plans and commitments that you have chosen;
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support in recognising progress as well as challenges;
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opportunities to practise new ways of thinking and responding;
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greater awareness of the people, places and circumstances that influence your recovery;
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help connecting with additional professional, community and peer resources when needed.
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The coaching relationship is collaborative. You bring your experience, priorities and knowledge of your own life. I bring recovery-focused knowledge, practical tools, careful questions, encouragement and respectful accountability.
What Recovery Coaching is not
It is not medical or psychological treatment
Recovery coaching does not diagnose or treat addiction, trauma, mental illness or other health conditions. It can work alongside medical care, psychotherapy, psychiatric treatment, rehabilitation and mutual-aid or peer-support programmes.
It is not about being told what to do...
I will not impose a predetermined version of recovery on you. We work together to identify choices and actions that are appropriate for your circumstances and consistent with your wellbeing.
It is not about ignoring the past...
Coaching is primarily focused on the present and future, but past experiences may need to be acknowledged when they continue to affect current behaviour, relationships or recovery. Concerns requiring trauma therapy or other clinical treatment should be supported by an appropriately qualified practitioner.
It is not about blame, shame or perfection...
Substance use and relapse are influenced by many interacting biological, psychological, relational, social and environmental factors. Coaching encourages responsibility without reducing your experience to personal weakness or lack of willingness.
An integrated and evidence-informed approach
My work is informed by recovery coaching, adult education, peer-support principles and a whole-person understanding of addiction and wellbeing.
Depending on your needs, our conversations and exercises may draw on ideas and practices associated with:
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the biopsychosocial model of addiction;
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motivational and strengths-based approaches;
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cognitive and behavioural skills;
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acceptance and values-based practices;
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emotional-regulation and distress-tolerance skills;
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mindfulness and self-compassion;
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recovery capital;
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relapse prevention;
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positive psychology;
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systemic coaching;
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mutual-aid and multiple pathways to recovery.
These approaches are not used as a rigid formula. They provide a range of perspectives and tools from which we can select what is useful, practical and appropriate for you.
The Recovery Wellness Outpatient Programme
Structured Support for Sustainable Recovery
The Recovery Wellness Outpatient Programme offers a structured combination of group coaching, adult education, peer connection and individual recovery coaching.
It is designed to help people understand their recovery more deeply, practise new skills and build the emotional, mental, social and practical resources needed to manage everyday life without returning to harmful substance use or addictive behaviour.
The programme may be particularly helpful for people who:
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need structured support while continuing with work or family responsibilities;
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are transitioning home after inpatient treatment;
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want more support than occasional individual sessions can provide;
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have experienced repeated lapses or relapses;
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feel isolated or disconnected in recovery;
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would benefit from both individual attention and a supportive group process.
How the programme works
Connect! Recover! Be Well!
The initial programme is completed over approximately four to six weeks and includes:
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group coaching, recovery education and peer support;
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six individual recovery-coaching sessions;
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WhatsApp support;
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access to a weekly family-support group;
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a printable outpatient workbook;
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access to an online learning platform;
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continued access to the group programme for a total of 12 months.
This longer period of connection gives participants an opportunity to continue practising recovery skills, receive support as new challenges arise and build stronger relationships within a recovery community.
What the programme covers
The programme explores practical areas that can strengthen recovery and wellbeing, including:
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understanding substance use and addictive behaviour;
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the recovery process and multiple pathways to recovery;
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emotional, mental and physical wellbeing;
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relapse prevention and early warning signs;
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triggers, urges and cravings;
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the relationship between the body, brain and behaviour;
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personal values and spiritual principles;
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healthy routines and self-care;
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emotional awareness and regulation;
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communication and conflict management;
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healthy boundaries;
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relationships and family dynamics;
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mindfulness and grounding practices;
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recovery capital and community support;
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self-worth, responsibility and self-compassion;
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personal growth, purpose and meaningful goals.
The purpose is not only to provide information. Participants are encouraged to reflect, practise, share, apply new skills and discover what supports their own recovery.
The value of group support
Recovery can become increasingly difficult when it is attempted in isolation.
A professionally facilitated group provides an opportunity to connect with people who understand some of the challenges of recovery. It can reduce shame and isolation while helping participants develop communication, accountability, empathy and a greater sense of belonging.
The group does not require everyone to have the same story, beliefs or recovery pathway. Participants are encouraged to learn from one another while developing an approach that reflects their own circumstances and needs.
Family support
Addiction affects relationships and family systems, not only the individual using substances or engaging in harmful behaviour.
The family-support component provides a space for family members and significant others to develop a clearer understanding of addiction, recovery, boundaries, communication and their own wellbeing.
Family support is not about assigning blame or making relatives responsible for another person’s recovery. It is about helping everyone respond in healthier, more informed and sustainable ways.
You do not need to feel completely ready
Many people wait to seek support because they are uncertain, frightened, ashamed or unsure whether their difficulties are serious enough.
You do not need to feel completely confident or committed to every part of the recovery process before beginning. A willingness to have an honest conversation is enough for the first step.
A free connection session gives us an opportunity to discuss what is happening, consider the level of support you may need and decide whether individual coaching, the outpatient programme or another form of care would be most appropriate.