Recovery Coaching

Recovery support here is intentionally different from traditional, punitive, or one-size-fits-all recovery models. We don’t ask you to surrender your power, minimize your trauma, or reduce your life to a diagnosis or label. Instead, we explore recovery through a feminist, trauma-informed lens that honors your autonomy, lived experience, and full humanity.
 

Whether you’re questioning your relationship with substances, navigating early recovery, managing lapses, or rebuilding trust with yourself after years of survival coping, this space centers compassion over control and understanding over shame. Recovery is treated not as moral redemption, but as a process of reclaiming agency, rebuilding nervous system safety, and creating a life that no longer requires constant numbing or escape.

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Who this is for

• Alcohol, drug, prescription use and other compulsive patterns (including work, food, spending, sex/relationships)

• Gray-area use, sober-curious exploration, and navigating shifting goals

• Healing from trauma-linked use and patterns of numbing or coping

• Post-acute withdrawal experiences, dysregulation, and nervous system disturbances

• Boundary work, self-trust, and cultivating safety with yourself and others

• Shame, perfectionism, self-worth struggles, and internalized stigma around use

• Identity, body image, and relational patterns that intersect with recovery experiences
   

This work meets you where you are — whether you identify as sober, cutting down, in early recovery, navigating lapses, or rethinking your relationship with substances and compulsive behaviors in the context of your whole life.

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What to Expect

• A non-judgmental, shame-free space

From the start, therapy is a place where your experiences are met with curiosity, respect, and compassion — not moralizing, ultimatums, or pressure to perform recovery “correctly.” You are not treated as a problem to be managed, but as a person whose coping strategies developed for understandable and very valid reasons.

• Recovery defined by you

There is no single goal imposed on you. Whether you’re sober, sober-curious, reducing use, navigating relapse, or rethinking your relationship with substances or compulsive behaviors, we collaborate on goals that reflect your values, safety, and lived reality.

• Trauma-informed pacing

We move at a pace that respects your nervous system. This work prioritizes safety, regulation, and trust — especially if substance use has been connected to trauma, chronic stress, or survival responses. You won’t be pushed to disclose, confront, or “dig” before you’re ready.

• A relational, feminist lens

Together, we explore how identity, power, gender roles, oppression, family systems, and cultural expectations have shaped your relationship with coping, control, and relief. Recovery is contextualized — not individualized as a personal failure.

• Practical tools you can actually use

Sessions may include support with cravings and urges, emotional regulation, boundary setting, relapse prevention without shame, communication skills, and rebuilding trust with yourself and others — all tailored to your life, not a rigid program.

• Space for complexity and humanity

You don’t need to have everything figured out. Ambivalence, grief, anger, relief, fear, and hope are all welcome here. Recovery therapy supports you in building a life that feels more connected, embodied, and aligned — not just “managed.”

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Let’s Work Together