Private Recovery Coaching for Professionals

Private recovery coaching tailored to your experiences, responsibilities, and goals.

A person can be capable, accomplished, and respected while privately struggling with substance dependence, trauma, or emotional distress.

-  You may have been able to continue working, leading, travelling, parenting, or carrying significant responsibility while privately struggling. From the outside, your life may have appeared successful and functional, while internally you were relying increasingly on alcohol or other substances or unhealthy coping behaviours to manage stress, emotional pain, trauma, exhaustion, or disconnection.

-  You may have recently completed residential or outpatient treatment and now wondering how to translate what you learned into everyday life. Alternatively, you may never have attended a rehabilitation program but recognise that your relationship with alcohol, another substance, or an unhealthy coping behaviour is no longer sustainable.

Private Recovery Coaching provides thoughtful, trauma-informed education and practical support tailored to your personal circumstances, professional responsibilities, and preferred pathway to recovery.

Recovery does not occur separately from work, family, travel, leadership, or established responsibilities.

Generic advice may not adequately address the realities of:

-  Returning to a demanding professional role after treatment.

-  Managing workplace events where alcohol is present.

-  Travelling regularly while maintaining recovery routines.

-  Protecting privacy in a visible or high-responsibility position.

-  Rebuilding trust within important relationships.

-  Managing stress, trauma responses and emotional dysregulation.

-  Developing a meaningful life beyond professional achievement.

-  Finding appropriate support without adopting a recovery model that does not feel right for you.

Support is tailored to your individual circumstances, life experience, recovery journey and professional responsibilities. Your sessions will reflect your background, responsibilities, relationships, recovery history and current support network.

Rather than following a standardised program, sessions are adapted to your experiences, priorities, responsibilities, and recovery goals. Each session is individually tailored to recognise the complexity of your life, including your professional responsibilities, personal relationships, recovery experience and existing supports.

Your recovery support is designed around your circumstances, strengths, challenges, and the life you are working to rebuild.

Private Recovery Coaching may be suitable for individuals who:

• Want to stop or substantially change their use of or relationship to alcohol or other substances.
• Have completed residential treatment and want support with the transition home.
• Are in early or established recovery and feel they need greater structure or direction.
• Have remained professionally functional while privately struggling.
• Want a thoughtful alternative to highly prescriptive recovery models.
• Are attending therapy or recovery meetings but need help applying insights to daily life.
• Recognise that trauma, stress or emotional pain may be connected to their substance use.
• Want to rebuild their identity, relationships, wellbeing, and sense of purpose.
• Value privacy, personal responsibility, and intelligent, non-judgmental support.

You do not need to have attended rehabilitation or received a formal diagnosis to access the service.

Recovery coaching combines practical planning, psychoeducation, accountability, and lived-experience-informed support.

Sessions may explore:

Understanding your recovery patterns

Develop greater awareness of cravings, triggers, emotional states, high-risk situations, and the role substance use has played in your life.

Developing a personal recovery structure

Create routines, supports and practical strategies that can be maintained alongside your professional and personal responsibilities.

Trauma-informed recovery

Understand how trauma, chronic stress, shame, hypervigilance, emotional overwhelm or disconnection may affect your recovery.

The focus is on present-day understanding, stabilisation, and practical coping. You will not be asked to describe traumatic experiences in detail.

Returning to professional life

Prepare for workplace pressures, business travel, professional events, leadership responsibilities and questions from colleagues.

Strengthening emotional regulation

Develop grounding, nervous-system awareness, and practical strategies for managing distress without returning automatically to old coping patterns.

Navigating relationships

Consider how recovery affects trust, communication, boundaries, intimacy, and family expectations.

Exploring recovery pathways

Review professional treatment, peer-support groups, twelve-step fellowships, and other recovery resources without being pressured into one model.

Rebuilding identity and purpose

Move beyond an identity defined only by work, substance use or treatment and begin developing a life that feels meaningful and worth protecting.

There is no single recovery pathway that is appropriate for every person.

Your recovery plan may include a combination of:

• Individual therapy or counselling
• Medical and psychiatric support
• Twelve-step fellowships
• Peer-support communities
• Medication
• Exercise and physical wellbeing
• Mindfulness and nervous-system regulation
• Creative, spiritual or reflective practices
• Rebuilding relationships and community
• Values-based goals and meaningful work

Where helpful, sessions can include neutral education about Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and other twelve-step fellowships.

This service is not affiliated with AA, NA, or any other twelve-step organisation. It is not a sponsor–sponsee relationship, does not replace sponsorship and does not involve taking clients through the Twelve Steps.

The purpose of twelve-step familiarisation is to help you understand the model and make an informed decision about whether any part of it may be useful to you.

Privacy is particularly important when your personal circumstances could affect your professional identity, reputation, or relationships.

Sessions are conducted online and are not recorded without your express written agreement.

You are encouraged to attend from a private location where you can speak without being overheard.

Information discussed during sessions is treated confidentially, subject to any applicable legal or ethical obligations relating to immediate safety, harm to others, child safety or other mandatory reporting requirements.

Further information about privacy, record keeping, communication and confidentiality will be provided before your first session.

Emily brings together professional education, trauma-informed training and lived experience of substance-use recovery and residential treatment.

Her background includes:

• Training in trauma-informed coaching, substance use disorder recovery, mental health recovery, and post-traumatic growth facilitation.
• Education in nervous-system regulation, breathwork, mindfulness and wellbeing.
• Experience supporting people affected by mental-health concerns, trauma and substance dependence.
• Extensive professional experience in high-responsibility, international and complex working environments.
• Lived experience of treatment, recovery and rebuilding a meaningful professional and personal life.

Emily understands that someone can be educated, capable and professionally accomplished while privately struggling.

Her approach is practical, compassionate, and non-judgmental. She does not require clients to adopt a particular recovery identity or view themselves through one fixed model of addiction.

Lived experience is used thoughtfully and only when it supports the client’s understanding and goals.

Private Recovery Coaching is a non-clinical coaching and psychoeducational service.

It is not:

• Psychotherapy or trauma-processing therapy
• Psychological or psychiatric assessment
• Treatment for PTSD, CPTSD or another mental-health condition
• Medical or psychiatric treatment
• Medically supervised withdrawal or detoxification
• Medication advice
• Crisis intervention
• Continuous sobriety monitoring
• A substitute for care from a doctor, psychologist, psychiatrist, counsellor, or other qualified healthcare professional
• A guarantee that a person will remain abstinent or achieve a particular recovery outcome

Sessions do not involve intentionally revisiting or processing traumatic memories.

Recovery coaching can complement professional treatment but does not replace it. Where your needs fall outside the scope of the service, you may be encouraged to seek assistance from an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.

This service is not appropriate for an immediate crisis.

If you are experiencing severe intoxication or withdrawal, psychosis, mania, suicidal thoughts, an immediate risk of harm or another medical or mental-health emergency, contact emergency services or an appropriate crisis service in your current location.

Do not wait for a coaching appointment or email response during an emergency.

You do not need to have everything resolved before asking for support.

A Recovery Strategy Session can help you understand where you are, identify what may be placing your recovery at risk and decide what type of support would be most useful.