Professional Recovery Coach

  • 6 Months
  • 60 Course Hours
  • $1,695

Overview

Professional Recovery Coaching is about preventing the losses of substance abuse, both by intervening before addiction spirals into crisis, and by enhancing the experience of recovery for those on their journey to wellness. Professional Recovery Coaches provide the positive answer by helping people reconnect to their own inner capacity, resilience and sense of wellbeing.

Professional Recovery Coaching is based on results.  It empowers people to start their sober life on solid footing. It energizes people in long term recovery from addiction or codependency to discover new levels of satisfaction and purpose in life. Coaches, counselors, teachers, other helping professionals and even family members will learn the dynamics of a Strengths-Based system for changing addictive behavior including concepts such as Recovery Capital and Whole Life Recovery.

What You'll Learn

In this program you will learn the effects of addiction on the brain and discover the foundational role that joy plays in recovery and how lasting, joyful connections are vital to the recovery process.  You will also learn the role of the Professional Recovery Coach along with the desired skills, traits and competencies needed for success in the coaching relationship.  This program will show you the tools to use to elicit client motivation and help clients to correct discrepancies in their thinking and beliefs. This program will also review special issues in working with families as well as ethical issues that are commonly addressed in Professional Recovery Coaching.

Upon completion of this program you will be able to:

  • Describe the effects of addiction on the brain’s right hemispheric control center, as well as the skills and abilities the brain loses in addiction.
  • Explain how the brain shares joy nonverbally, learns the skills of joy and quiet and grows capacity.
  • Identify cravings, BEEPS and the process by which the brain is hijacked in addiction.
  • Define what Recovery Coaching is and is not according to ethical standards.
  • Utilize strengths-based and solution-based questions to move clients from ambivalence to change.
  • Identify ways to build trust in the client/coach relationship.
  • Understand how a coach’s level of empathy can significantly impact client outcomes.
  • Learn to apply Cognitive Behavior Theory and Cognitive Restructuring when disputing faulty thinking.
  • Learn to recognize relapse triggers and co-create relapse prevention plans.
  • Follow ethical standards of conduct and review legally required documentation for providing coaching services.

Overview

Professional Recovery Coaching is about preventing the losses of substance abuse, both by intervening before addiction spirals into crisis, and by enhancing the experience of recovery for those on their journey to wellness. Professional Recovery Coaches provide the positive answer by helping people reconnect to their own inner capacity, resilience and sense of wellbeing.

Professional Recovery Coaching is based on results.  It empowers people to start their sober life on solid footing. It energizes people in long term recovery from addiction or codependency to discover new levels of satisfaction and purpose in life. Coaches, counselors, teachers, other helping professionals and even family members will learn the dynamics of a Strengths-Based system for changing addictive behavior including concepts such as Recovery Capital and Whole Life Recovery.

What You'll Learn

In this program you will learn the effects of addiction on the brain and discover the foundational role that joy plays in recovery and how lasting, joyful connections are vital to the recovery process.  You will also learn the role of the Professional Recovery Coach along with the desired skills, traits and competencies needed for success in the coaching relationship.  This program will show you the tools to use to elicit client motivation and help clients to correct discrepancies in their thinking and beliefs. This program will also review special issues in working with families as well as ethical issues that are commonly addressed in Professional Recovery Coaching.

Upon completion of this program you will be able to:

  • Describe the effects of addiction on the brain’s right hemispheric control center, as well as the skills and abilities the brain loses in addiction.
  • Explain how the brain shares joy nonverbally, learns the skills of joy and quiet and grows capacity.
  • Identify cravings, BEEPS and the process by which the brain is hijacked in addiction.
  • Define what Recovery Coaching is and is not according to ethical standards.
  • Utilize strengths-based and solution-based questions to move clients from ambivalence to change.
  • Identify ways to build trust in the client/coach relationship.
  • Understand how a coach’s level of empathy can significantly impact client outcomes.
  • Learn to apply Cognitive Behavior Theory and Cognitive Restructuring when disputing faulty thinking.
  • Learn to recognize relapse triggers and co-create relapse prevention plans.
  • Follow ethical standards of conduct and review legally required documentation for providing coaching services.

Registration Information

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