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        Our Mission​

The goal of Powers Benzo Coaching is to provide a rational, realistic, and science-backed approach to psych-med withdrawal and recovery, without all the needless fear.

 

Psychiatry today is in need of reform in how many doctors understand, prescribe, and manage certain psychotropic medications, particularly when it comes to dependence, withdrawal, and long-term outcomes. Over 90 million prescriptions are written annually in the United States alone, with a growing number of patients reporting debilitating, and at times life-threatening, withdrawal syndromes and prolonged neurological complications following prescribed use.

 

This work exists to address that gap.

 

At Powers Benzo Coaching, the focus is on helping individuals understand what is actually happening in their nervous system, rather than becoming trapped in fear-based narratives or misinformation. Recovery is approached through a combination of psychoeducation, neurobiological understanding, and practical, structured strategies aimed at reducing symptom amplification and restoring stability over time.

 

The goal is not to minimize suffering or catastrophize it, but to provide a clear, grounded framework that helps people move forward with greater understanding, less fear, and a realistic path toward recovery.

POWERS: About Me

 

About Coach Powers

Coach Powers is a benzodiazepine recovery coach providing assessment, education, support, and recovery coaching to those suffering from benzodiazepine dependence and withdrawal. Powers, himself, fought his way back to full health after a 10-year dependence on a high dose of Valium.

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Powers has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and runs the Benzo Recovery School, a positive-focused Benzo recovery community with a multi-module video course on recovery, plus weekly 3-hour live meetings where Powers provides lessons and takes Q&A from students.  

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Powers Coaching focuses on several dimensions of Benzo Recovery, which align with his two core principles: "lulling" & "pushing." 

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His coaching style is informed by CBT, DBT, & Mindfulness Training. 

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Powers also works as an artist and filmmaker. 

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Education

A.S. Majored in Biology & Arts (South Florida State College 2008)

B.S. Interdisciplinary Studies * Honors (Hodges University 2011)

M.S. Clinical Psychology *Honors (Walden University 2016)

Ph.D Clinical Psychology *Honors (Walden University - 2024)

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* Postdoc training in Beckian CBT, RF-CBT, ACT
Mindfulness  
& Jungian Psychology 

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