A Different Approach to Recovery
Most recovery coaching focuses on timelines, symptoms, diets, supplements, and emotional support, often leaving people feeling more confused, frightened, and without direction. Many coaches become paid listeners or reinforce fear-based ideas about brain damage, long recovery timelines, and setbacks.
My coaching style is different. I focus on the process of healing: regulation, building neuroplasticity, developing coping skills, and changing our relationship with fear. I teach from a Four-Stage Recovery Program (The North Star) with clear learning goals and roadblocks at each stage.
Students follow a Daily Checklist to build confidence, leadership, and neuroplasticity.
The goal isn’t just to stop medications, it’s to remain off the meds and have a quality of life afterward.
Additional support includes trauma-informed education, mindfulness training, and access to a positive online recovery school with video lessons, course materials, and weekly Zoom meetings.
Students also learn all about the Bear and how to befriend him.
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TESTIMONIALS
"I began working with David a few months ago during a rough patch in my taper off of Xanax. I had found a few of his YouTube videos helpful and set up an initial consultation to speak to him over the phone. Right out of the gate, I knew it was a good fit. David was incredibly easy to talk to and very quickly grasped not only my situation, but how aspects of my personality were working for and against me in my response to benzo withdrawal. I appreciate that David has a background in mental health, is a PhD candidate in Psychology, but does not hide behind theories and cookie cutter approaches. His own experience of a challenging withdrawal years ago, coupled with his education and humanistic, yet highly practical approach has provided me with the exact tools needed to navigate this ‘dark night of the soul’ experience that is benzo withdrawal. Thank you, David!"