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The Top Sober Coaches

2nd January 2024

Are you someone who is finding it hard to quit your drinking habit? Have tried being sober multiple times but failed again and again? Well, a sober coach is a perfect person to help you with your rehabilitation.

A sober coach is a qualified individual who helps you in your journey to obtain a toxication-free life.

They provide you with effective strategies for your recovery plan. Moreover, they also build an appropriate surrounding for you to take toxication out of your mind.

Each sober coach with their custom style trying to help their clients gain success in all forms, and asked them what’s unique about their coaching and what has endorsed their massive success.

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In Brief : The Top Sober Coaches

Alyson Premo – Alyson Premo’s journey from alcohol addiction to sobriety inspired her to found Sober Mom Tribe, offering support and community to mothers navigating sobriety.
Heather Lowe – Heather Lowe, with a background in social work and a multitude of coaching certifications, takes a compassionate and strengths-based approach to recovery coaching.
Connor O’Reilly – Connor O’Reilly brings his engineering background and personal experience with substance use to his sober coaching practice.
Eric Peyton – Eric Peyton’s background in psychology and wellness counseling equips him to support clients on their journey to sobriety.
Andy Smith – Eric Peyton’s background in psychology and wellness counseling equips him to support clients on their journey to sobriety.
Harry Balsamo – Harry Balsamo’s journey as a closeted gay man coping with guilt and shame through alcohol and drugs informs his compassionate approach to sober coaching.

Alyson Premo

Alyson Premo changed the whole trajectory of her life when she got sober on 11/15/16. Through her own struggles with alcohol addiction, she wanted to share her story and give back to the mom who felt alone, unseen, and unheard. She founded Sober Mom Tribe in 2018 so that she could build a community that brings mothers together who are navigating sobriety or contemplating an alcohol-free life. She has also been a Certified Professional Recovery Coach, aka The Sober Mom Coach, since 2019 and has helped thousands of women through her coaching programs.

What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?

I support women to feel empowered when removing alcohol from their lives instead of feeling deprived. My main goal is for them to see there is nothing wrong with them for getting stuck in a cycle with an addictive substance but then to show them they have the power to get themselves out. To do this, I use a combination of powerful questions, listen to their individual needs, and pull tools out of my coaching certifications toolbox to get them to see how capable they are of making the change.

What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?

The most important thing is understanding and relating to my clients because I’ve been through it. I was the mom who looked like I had it all together on the outside, but on the inside, I was slowly dying from alcohol. Building that trust with my clients allows them to open up fully so that we can get to the root of the problem and work through it, and they can come out the other side with a solution instead of continuing to hide and suppress their drinking.

Heather Lowe

Heather Lowe is dynamic change maker and the Founder of Ditched the Drink, guiding professionals and organizations to drink less. She is driven by her education as a Bachelor of Social Work, Professional of Human Resources, Certified Professional Life and Recovery Coach, Certified Addiction Awareness Facilitator, She Recovers Coach, Certificate in the Science of Well Being from Yale University and the Advisor for the International Center of Addiction Recovery Education.

What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?

Heather is trained in neuroscience and takes a positive approach to recovery coaching. She leads with compassion. She is skilled at navigating her clients towards change with a strengths based approach. Heather is an EQ genius. She provides mindset reframes and thoughtful questions for transformation, healing and growth. Heather’s client results speak for themselves. Everyone that meets with her drinks less or none at all.

What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?

Receiving coach training from the International Association of Professional Recovery Coaches, specifically the Live Skills portion of the training has prepared me to be a successful coach. Learning how to support clients by meeting them where they are at, developing trust and building rapport, setting up an action plan, providing accountability, and celebrating wins creates an environment for success. This training combined with what I learned by personal experience on my own journey to ditch the drink, has made me an incredibly empathetic and non judgemental coach with the highest of ethics and standards.

Connor O’Reilly

Connor O’Reilly is an experienced engineer who has taken his skills to sober coaching. He has worked with hundreds of people to help them change their relationship to substances, either through abstinence or moderation. He is proud to work for progressive alcohol recovery platforms online, as well as his own practice.

What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?

I am also in recovery and I know what it’s like to struggle with substance use. I connect deeply with my clients and create a safe, empathetic, judgement free space. I also know what it’s like to experience true freedom from substance use, and that is my dream for everyone I work with. I support all modalities of healing and take a holistic approach to recovery. The people I serve not only cut back or completely give up substances, they get brand new, amazing lives that are infinitely richer than before.

What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?

My continued journey of discovery in recovery. I understand that recovery needs to evolve and I’m able to pass along so many things that I’ve learned along the way. I also have a strong foundation in motivational interviewing, and I help folks truly find their own path that works for them. Their journey may look nothing like mine and that’s OK.

Eric Peyton

Eric holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Texas at Tyler. Prior to launching Sober Coach DFW, Eric worked as a Wellness & Recreation Counselor at Caron Treatment Centers to help patients tackle their addictions by improving their physical wellness through innovative fitness training, adventure-based team building exercises, and equine assisted therapy. Eric also has over a decade of experience as a certified personal trainer delivering high quality fitness instruction and nutritional guidance to executives, professionals, and high performance athletes.

Andy Smith

On the face of it, Andy’s life looked great. A stellar, award-winning and record breaking career, a flash company car on the drive, great family, and money in the bank. Underneath, however, he was hiding a secret. If you met him, you would find an outgoing guy who would smile and offer you a beer, but inside there was a relentless battle against alcohol addiction and the self-loathing that went with it. Andy grew up in a pub on a tiny island in the Shetland Islands and as a young man, being able to ‘hold your drink’ was a rite of passage into manhood. If you weren’t able to down a half bottle of whisky and remain standing you were in some way inferior.

Harry Balsamo

Harry was a closeted gay man from a very early age. Because of the cultural norms of the day, Harry chose to keep his sexuality a secret. Harry dealt with a tremendous amount of guilt and shame based around his secret and as a result started drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana at the age of 14. Harry was a springboard diver from the age of 6 up until his freshman year in college. Harry strived for perfection as a diver and continued to use alcohol and drugs to cope with the stress of competition as well as hiding from his true self.

Conclusion

There you have it, you’ve just read about the industry’s top sober coach.

What has been your biggest takeaway from this?

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