Couple’s Recovery Coaching
One of the greatest challenges of recovery is repairing the relationships impacted by the behaviors of addiction. Recovering safety and trust is as import to the long term success of a recovery as is putting down a substance. Giving you the tools to recreate safety so that you can recover trust and connection is an essential goal of couple’s recovery work.
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Breath.
Step 1
Assessment
Clarify a path to recovery with a 60 min consult. This session is designed to help you clarify the issues that are presenting challenges to starting and sustaining a healthy recovery as a couple and family.
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Learn.
Step 2
The process begins with six sessions of tool building. Gain tools to recover safety and trust, support healthy communication, clarify boundaries, and rebuild connection. Identify strategies to overcome the past patterns that may have indirectly supported addiction in your relationship. Establish a flexible and responsive space in which to collaborate, connect, heal, and grow.
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Recover.
Step 3
Coaching turns to guidance once the tools are in place to support a healthy recovery. Here the focus turns to honing the skills that you’ve learned. Fine tune boundaries, deepen trust, and begin to take steps that go beyond repairation aind into the renewal of connection and intimacy. Learn how to effectively build a more resilient and loving relationship with recovery in focus.
How This Works
How This Works
What to expect when you come to the office…
Relax with a coffee or tea in the waiting room on the large comfortable sofa or chairs. If you look out floor to ceiling windows you will see the building is part of Collinsville’s historic Axe Factory campus. You can watch the bikers and people pass by on the bike path bridge just a dozen or so feet away from the front door. If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of the Farmington River flowing beneath it. If it’s spring or summer, you can sit outside and enjoy the scene and fresh air. If it’s Friday in the summer months you might hear the sound of live music coming from the Collinsville Green, or from Downright Music next door. Many clients comment on how quiet and peaceful the office is, as it seems tucked away in its own little corner. Some clients enjoy the time before sessions and show up a little early, as it’s a good time to unwind and catch up.
What a session looks like…
Sitting down with a stranger and opening about your life and relationship can feel scary. I make it my goal to put you at ease from the start. I do that with compassionate and non-judgmental guidance. I understand that nobody sets out to end up in a bad place. Everyone starts a relationship with the best intentions! So I will work quickly to untangle you from any guilt and shame that you may be carrying about your relationship and recovery. Creating safety is a priority. Recovery demands the courage to communicate openly and honestly about very difficult things. Alot of my efforts will go into helping you get past the fears and any biases you may be carrying about recovery. This is an extremely important step that may require educating you about addiction, helping you normalize challenges, and reframing your relationship to make room for a recovery. After years of this work, I have seen that there are many unseen benefits to recovery. This may take some time to get you to the place where you can acknowledge the upside, just know I undertand this and will work patiently to help you get there. All of this work requires collaboration, which for you will mean summoning the courage to share the truth about how addiction has impacted you. The truth can help you clear a path to recovery -and from there, you can begin the process of recovering your health and wellbeing. Overall, the recovery journey can be very challenging, as there’s many levels to it. I have guided many couples and families through it. I’ve seen many thrive and many struggle, but I’ve also seen it can be immensely rewarding. Relationships can not only heal, but work again and thrive in ways they never have before. At every step of this journey you will be encouraged, supported, and gently challenged. I will work to honor your hopes, goals, and dreams, and all of it will be to help you arrive at the best starting point for a new beginning.