The Recovery Coaching Credential That Actually Prepares You for Real Clients
Most certifications hand you a binder and wish you luck. This one trains you with 50+ AI practice clients, simulated cases, and lifetime weekly support so you're ready on day one.
29.3 Million Adults Are in Recovery. Most Coaches Aren't Ready to Help Them.
Your client has a sponsor, a therapist, a case manager, and maybe a couples therapist. The family just hired an interventionist. Recovery is a team sport — and the coach is supposed to be the one who sees the whole field. But most training programs only teach you one angle. We teach you all of them.
Recovery Is Multi-Modal. Your Training Should Be Too.
Your client isn't just seeing you. They have a sponsor, a therapist, maybe a case manager and an interventionist. Most programs teach coaching in isolation. We train you in the basics of coaching, intervention, and case management — so you can collaborate across the entire recovery team, not just your corner of it.
Practice on AI Clients. Not on People Who Need Real Help.
Most programs hand you a certificate and send you into the world to do your experiential learning on real people in crisis. We built the world's first AI coaching laboratory — 50+ simulated clients who push back, present complications, and force you to think on your feet. You make your mistakes here, not on someone's worst day.
A Credential That Builds a Career. Not Just a Job.
Peer support certifications get you a seat at an agency. But if you want to open your own practice, build a referral network, and charge professional rates, you need a credential that goes further. This program is built for coaches who want a career, not just a role.
You Won't Walk Away Empty-Handed
In 20 weeks, you'll master the core coaching competencies through the lens of recovery. You'll know how to run a session, read a family system, and measure real progress — not just talk about it.
Assess Where Clients Are
Every engagement starts with a Recovery Capital assessment using our POA tool. You measure where your client actually is — not where they say they are. Then you coach from data, and reflect real change back to them over time.
Coach Individuals and Families
You'll learn to work with the person in recovery and the family around them. Active listening, powerful questions, evoking awareness — core coaching competencies applied to the hardest conversations families will ever have.
Guide Families Through Intervention
Most programs skip this. You'll learn intervention basics — when to initiate, how to prepare a family, and how to facilitate the conversation without breaking trust.
Navigate Ethics and Boundaries
Dual relationships, scope of practice, when to coach versus when to refer. Recovery coaching has unique ethical terrain. You'll learn to navigate it with a professional code of ethics as your foundation.
Build a Sustainable Practice
Pricing, positioning, referral networks, and the technology to run it all. You graduate with a coaching bio, intake documents, and a platform that makes you look as professional as you are.
Graduate Ready to Coach
The program includes dedicated competency assessments with AI-powered practice scenarios. You'll need to hit 85% on practice evaluations before you graduate. We don't let you fail.
20 Weeks. Four Phases. 80 Hours of Real Training.
This isn't a weekend certificate. It's a structured program that builds your skills week by week — from your first coaching conversation to your final observed session.
Foundation: Coaching Stance and Core Framework
Weekly live Zoom sessions plus async work. You learn what coaching actually is, practice active listening, master the CVR language, and have your first AI coaching conversations. By week 4, you've already coached.
Immersion: Three-Day Intensive Weekend
A full weekend via Zoom covering all 10 CVR modules, live coaching practicums with faculty observation, and the Smith Family case lab. You'll coach real scenarios and get written feedback. This is where everything clicks.
Mastery: Deep Competency Development
Weekly sessions diving deep into each core competency — presence, listening, evoking awareness, facilitating growth. You coach peers, upload recordings for AI feedback, and complete two more faculty-observed sessions.
Launch: Business, Exam Prep, and Graduation
Build your practice: pricing, marketing, referral networks. Complete your final competency assessments with AI practice scenarios. Record your final coaching session evaluated at professional level. Graduate with your credential, your tools, and your community.
Weekly Support and Office Hours. For Life.
Other programs disappear after they hand you a certificate. We show up every week. As long as you maintain your credential, you get live weekly office hours, peer consultation, and direct access to experienced coaches who've worked hundreds of cases. Because the hardest part isn't getting certified. It's the Tuesday morning when your client relapses and you need to know what to do next.
You Don't Just Get a Credential. You Get the Tools to Use It.
Same Page Notes
AI-guided collaboration platform for recovery professionals. Document sessions, surface insights, coordinate with families and treatment teams. All in one place.
Included: Lifetime access ($500/year value)
SobaSearch Integration
Give your clients instant access to 144,000+ recovery meetings nationwide. Find the right meeting, the right group, the right fit.
Included: Free for your clients
Recovery Capital Assessment
Evidence-based client assessment tool. Track progress over time with validated metrics. Show families and referral sources that the work is working.
Included: Unlimited use
Alumni Network
Peer consultation, continuing education, job board, referral network. You're not building a practice alone. You're joining a community of coaches doing this work together.
Included: Lifetime membership
Built for People Who've Been There
You're in Recovery
You've done the work. You know what it takes. Now you want to help others find what you found, and you want a real credential behind you when you do it.
You Love Someone in Recovery
You've lived through the chaos of addiction in your family. You understand what families go through because you went through it. That experience is your qualification.
You Work in the Field
You're already in behavioral health, social work, or counseling. You want to add recovery coaching to your practice with a methodology that gets results.
Next Cohort Starts Soon
$2,379 total. 20 weeks. Limited to 30 coaches per cohort.
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis. Early applicants get priority.
Apply for Next CohortQuestions? Email clay@bearecoverycoach.com or call (833) 594-7146