Recovery-informed coaching alongside your clinicians

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-informed coaching with Meghan focuses on that side of things. It is one-to-one support for people in recovery, offered alongside the recovery support and clinicians they already have. For a wider view of the approach, see executive function coaching.

What does recovery-informed coaching mean here?

Recovery-informed 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
• Staying steady under stress
• Cognitive flexibility

Before adapting any strategy, Meghan learns how each person thinks, plans, and takes in 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-informed coaching for?

Recovery-informed 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 in recovery who are also working with a clinician on mood or anxiety challenges may find the page for young adults relevant.

What is Meghan’s background?

Meghan Michalski, MA, has more than 10 years of experience in social science research, public health and education, and, as a researcher, 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-informed coaching fit with your clinicians?

Meghan works with the people already supporting a person: psychiatrists, psychologists, parents or family and the person themselves. Coaching sits alongside, never instead of, clinical care.

Clinicians can read more about working alongside Meghan, 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 aims to support 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.

Recovery-informed coaching questions