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Nov. 16, 2012 - PRLog -- Most life coaches working with individuals charge about $200 to $1,000 per month for a 30 to 60 minutes call 3 or 4 times a month. Executive coaches charge more and some clients work with a coach for an hour or two a week. It all works about to about $100 to $300 per hour. Obviously, corporate coaching is more, and can cost $1,000 to $10,000 per month and usually starts at $500 an hour. Corporate coaching often includes on-site programs and online computerized assessments. Feel free to browse http://www.coachdirectories.com        to see wide range of coaching fees as well as the wide variety of life coaches. The Coaching Directory includes business coaches, executive coaches, life coaches, professional coaches, and creative coaches.

Top Ten Things to Know about Recovery Coaching
1. Recovery Coaching helps clients stay in recovery. Hazelden’s initial pilot study (see Hazelden Voice Winter 2006) on professional Recovery Coaching found that of 100 patients who received coaching only 26 relapsed, and of those who did, 90%  got back in recovery. It was too small a study to be statistically valid. It may not even be repeatable but it was still very promising. More and more treatment centers want their clients to have a professional Recovery Coach before they leave treatment to help them stay in recovery.

2. What is a Recovery Coach? There’s a lot of confusion about what a Recovery Coach is. Recovery Coaches don’t come stay with you nor do they take you to treatment. And they aren’t therapists or sponsors. Recovery Coaches are highly trained partners who are willing to work with you so you can have the life you want in recovery. They help you solve problems and enjoy life so it’s easier stay in recovery.

3. Hiring a coach in early recovery may be more important than hiring a therapist. That’s because you need to stabilize in recovery before working on your past. We can help you find community support such as good 12-step meetings or alternatives such as SMART or Women for Sobriety. We can help you solve problems you like what to say to your friends. Or your boss. Or how to get a job or how to get along with your family. But if you are having intrusive flashbacks or are really depressed then a therapist would be better support. If not, then working with a Recovery Coach is really practical and useful and way more fun.

4. How is a therapist different than a Recovery Coach? Therapists often work with clients on childhood issues and why a person is are stuck. Coaches don’t work with clients on their past issues. Coaches do work with clients on how their life is now and how they would like to it to be in terms of health, work, relationships, finances, etc. Coaches ask “what” and “how” questions to create goals and plans. By the way, coaches and therapists work well together some people love having both.

5. How is a sponsor different than a Recovery Coach? Sponsors are volunteers who help others work the 12 steps in order to stay clean and sober. Recovery Coaches are paid and highly trained professionals. Sponsors stick to the steps, fellowship, and traditions and tell the sponsee what to do in order to recover. Recovery Coaches ask their clients how they want to pursue recovery. We support sponsorship and 12-step recovery but realize that some people may prefer SMART or WFS groups or just want stop on their own. We support them in their choice.

6. Recovery Coaching is really about enjoying life. Recovery Coaching was originally developed by life coaches for people in recovery to enjoy their lives more. We think people who enjoy life in recovery are more likely to stay in recovery. Recovery Coaches help you find your strengths and apply them to having a better life. We don’t think of you as powerless or diseased. We think of you as creative, resilient, and resourceful. What would it be like to have support from someone who believes in you, sees your strengths, and wants you to enjoy life in recovery?

7. Recovery Coaches work people with all kinds of addictive behaviors such as chemical dependency, sex addictions, eating disorders, or money problems like underearning, shopping too much, or gambling. Recovery Coaches don’t diagnose and don’t do treatment, but we can help people get clear about what they want to do, come up with a plan for going it alone, or find a good treatment center, or community support when they come home, or just work on finding creative and inspiring things to do that make staying in recovery worthwhile.

8. Are Recovery Coaches worth what they cost? We think so because without a coach three out of four people relapse in the first year. With the help of a Recovery Coach, three out of four people stay in recovery. Some Recovery Coaches charge $800- a month, some Recovery Coaches charge $300- a month. Either way hiring a coach is a lot cheaper than relapsing or going back to treatment or not being able to work. People who use coaches make better decisions and spend less time struggling. Ultimately only you can decide if Recovery Coaching is a reasonable way to protect your investment in recovery.

9. A lot of people call themselves Recovery Coaches. Some people call themselves Recovery Coaches but have no training at all. Some have been trained in addiction topics such as Motivational Interviewing or Stages of Change. Others have coach training and are in 12-step recovery and think that’s enough. But a professional Recovery Coach has training in both coaching and addiction.

10. What happens if I relapse? First, we don’t think you will. But if you do relapse, we will continue to work with you as long as we can be of help. Often, when working with a coach, a relapse can be limited to a single incident and then you can return right back into recovery. We will ask you what you learned and help you make a plan so it doesn’t happen again. However, if you don’t show up or you can’t benefit we will promptly stop coaching you so we don’t waste your time or money—and we will refer you to people who can help you.

Bonus Question One: How can I hire a Recovery Coach? That’s easy! At Recovery Coaching America we offer credentialed and highly trained professional Recovery Coaches at reasonable cost to meet your needs. If, after your first month you decide that coaching is not for you we will promptly return your coaching fee. That’s our “Recovery Challenge Guarantee.” For a coaching consultation (at no charge) call us at 561-952-1792 or email cs@coachdirectories.com We will talk about the recovery life you want to enjoy and the challenges you are facing. Together we will select a coach who will be your partner in building your new life in recovery.

Bonus Question Two: How can I be trained as a professional Recovery Coach? Our program at Recovery Coaching America offers training that meets the standards of the International Coach Federation AND teaches best practices from addiction recovery. That’s why we are the number one training organization —because people know they are getting the best Recovery Coach training available. Our next training is coming up soon. You can learn more at www.recoverycoachingamerica.com