Recovery coaching alongside your care team

Recovery can ask a lot of a person’s day-to-day organization: keeping routines steady, planning ahead, choosing what comes first and following through when energy or focus dips. Recovery coaching with Meghan focuses on that side of things. It is one-to-one support for people in recovery, offered alongside the recovery and care team they already have. For a wider view of the approach, see executive function coaching.

What does recovery coaching mean here?

Recovery coaching here means support with executive function, the set of skills that helps a person organize, start and finish what matters to them. Meghan works with skills such as:

• Routines and planning
• Prioritizing
• Time management
• Follow-through
• Emotion regulation
• Cognitive flexibility

Before adapting any strategy, Meghan assesses how each person processes information. She then teaches concepts and organizational strategies that fit the way that person perceives and understands things, so the tools feel usable rather than imposed.

This work sits next to a person’s own recovery, not in place of it. Meghan does not direct anyone’s recovery. She helps with the practical structure around it.

Who is recovery coaching for?

Recovery coaching is for people in recovery who want more structure and steadier follow-through in daily life. Meghan also works with people through life transitions, like starting or leaving college, a first job or moving toward independence.

People who are in recovery and also have a mood disorder may find the page on young adults and mood disorders relevant.

What is Meghan’s background?

Meghan Michalski, MA, has an addiction-counseling background. She also has more than 10 years of experience in social science research, public health and education, and she has studied the effects of executive functioning strategies on emotion regulation. She is a coach and mentor, and her approach prioritizes trust and rapport.

How does recovery coaching fit with your care team?

Meghan works as one coordinated part of a whole care team, including psychiatrists, psychologists, parents or family and the person themselves. She is not a standalone service. She collaborates with existing care teams.

Clinicians can read more about working with Meghan as part of a care team, and families can read how parents and caregivers fit in.

What does working together look like?

Coaching with Meghan is a one-to-one relationship that continues over time at a regular cadence. It is not a fixed-length program. Sessions can be virtual or in person; see where Meghan works.

Early on, a person first uses new strategies with Meghan’s support. Meghan works so that the person can carry them out independently later. She also builds confidence, skills and an understanding of why each strategy matters. Her approach is relational: it holds space for authenticity while drawing on a person’s strengths and building up growth areas.

If you would like to ask whether this could suit you or someone you support, get in touch with Meghan.

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