Zach Livingston’s Structured Recovery Program

The work between appointments

Zach Livingston, CIP, CCMI, brings calm, credibility, lived experience, intervention work, residential-treatment experience, coaching, and case-management perspective to the practical work of recovery. Scope is individualized and coordinated with appropriate clinical or medical care.

Bring the problem. We will game out the solution.

Recovery coaching is not first-person lecturing and it is not a paid friendship. The client brings the problem. Zach listens long enough to understand what is underneath it, asks questions that help the client hear his own thinking, identifies workable options, and helps turn the next responsible option into action.

Common ground matters. Shame, guilt, damaged trust, fear, and time lost to addiction can make honesty difficult. Appropriate lived-experience connection can make truth safer to tell without shifting the work away from the client. From there, coaching becomes an earned accountability relationship: know the plan, tell the truth about execution, adjust when reality changes, and keep moving.

• Motivational and open-ended questions rather than commands
• Practical problem-solving and decision rehearsal
• Daily and weekly structure
• Treatment and appointment follow-through
• Recovery-community engagement
• Work, school, travel, and relationship planning
• Monitoring and accountability agreements
• Early warning signs and response
• Communication with family and authorized professionals
• Progressive restoration of responsibility and independence

Coach, sponsor, clinician: three different lanes

Zach’s professional coaching does not replace a 12-step sponsor, mutual-help fellowship, therapist, prescriber, or treatment team. A coach helps the person solve and implement real-life recovery problems. A sponsor helps a member work the Steps within the fellowship. A clinician provides care within a licensed scope. Clear lanes protect the client and allow each relationship to do its best work.

Zach also participates in Nashville’s 12-step community as a peer. In that setting he offers no Firm service or professional advice. He welcomes newcomers, contributes intentionally, sponsors men, and makes time for other alcoholics because peers once did the same for him. That service is fellowship—not a sales channel and not part of a paid engagement.

Accountability without isolation

Accountability is most useful when the person understands what is expected, has realistic support for meeting it, and knows how difficulty will be handled. The goal is not to catch failure. It is to make success more practicable and deterioration visible earlier.

A fieldbook for the first stretch after discharge

The first days and months after detox or treatment should not be left to good intentions. Zach’s free fieldbook helps map the bridge into housing, clinical follow-through, meetings, sponsorship, service, work or school, family communication, accountability, and a response to early drift.

Coaching is not clinical treatment

The program does not diagnose, prescribe, provide psychotherapy, or replace an indicated level of care. Medical, psychiatric, therapeutic, and emergency needs remain with appropriately qualified professionals.