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.
Traditional certifications teach theory. But the person sitting across from you isn't a textbook. They're a mother who just found pills in her son's backpack. A husband watching his wife disappear. Someone who's been sober for six months and doesn't know what to do with the rage. You need more than theory for that.
An ICF ACC Based Credential
Not a weekend certificate. The Core Values Recovery Coach certification is built on the ICF ACC framework. Treatment centers hire you. Families trust you. You carry a credential that means something.
50+ AI clients. Real Feedback.
Practice difficult conversations before you have them for real. Our AI clients simulate resistant clients, family conflicts, crisis moments, and intervention scenarios. They don't just respond. They evaluate your technique and tell you what to improve.
Simulated Cases, Not Scripts
You work alongside other trainees on realistic case studies. The same way doctors learn in residency. You see what works, what doesn't, and why. No memorizing scripts you'll forget under pressure.
You Won't Walk Away Empty-Handed
In 20 weeks, you'll master the ICF core competencies through the lens of recovery coaching. 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 — the ICF 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 the ICF 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.
Pass the ICF Credential Exam
The program includes dedicated exam prep with AI-powered practice scenarios. You'll need to hit 85% on practice exams before you sit for the real thing. 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 ICF 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 ICF 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. Prep for the ICF exam with AI practice scenarios. Record your final coaching session evaluated at ACC 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