“My recovery must come first so that everything I love in life doesn’t have to come last.”

– ANONYMOUS

Understanding the complexities of drug & alcohol addiction, as well as the unique characteristics and underlying causes inherent to each individual, can be challenging to any recovery professional, regardless of whether it is a psychiatrist, therapist, a sober or life coach, intervention specialist or even an AA or NA sponsor. Then take it a step further and factor in the necessity for having on-demand solutions, each with varied levels of fluidity so as to be molded to meet the client’s needs, and here is where the ill-prepared recovery coach and interventionist becomes a liability rather than an asset. 

Whatever your experience with addiction may be, there is something critically important you must realize. To the best of our collective knowledge, there is no other disease or illness or condition known to humankind that, like addiction, exists and thrives within the sufferer’s body on three completely separate but interconnected planes; the physiological, the mental/emotional, and the spiritual. Though it is as if they exist separately from one another, they generally work as a trio, which is why addiction is so insidious, cunning, tragic, and deadly.

Keeping that reality in mind, and considering that at present there are no laws mandating any formal training or licensing for addiction interventionists or recovery coaches, your objective right now is to learn how to identify the best providers, and with an unwavering philosophy centered around excellence in client care.