Psychosocial Recovery Coaching is a support that is tailored towards those living with complex mental health concerns and receiving funding under an NDIS plan.

If you have been funded for this support in your plan, you may be curious about how to find the best recovery coach for your needs, and what they will do to support you.

A Recovery Coach with no lived experience should have the following qualifications:

– a minimum of Certificate 4 in Mental Health or

– Mental Health Peer work or

– similar training and/or two years’ paid experience in supporting people with mental health challenges.

The skillset of a Lived Experience Recovery Coaches derives primarily from the lived experience discipline and knowledge and expertise gained from personal experience of mental health challenges, service use and recovery. They demonstrate expertise with the purposeful use and sharing of personal experience to support other people to identify their aspirations, make decisions for themselves, exercise choice and assume greater control of their lives.

And finally, you might choose a Recovery Coach who has both lived and learned experience.

At Ethical Caring Group, we believe that the most effective Recovery Coaches are people who have a lived experience of Mental Health concerns and recovery, combined with formal qualifications. Coaches with lived experience can share more of an understanding about the challenges you face and the best support you by using their knowledge of those challenges to find a pathway forward.

Formal qualifications on top of that lived experience mean you have the support of somebody who has “been there” but also has decided to further their studies and increase their overall knowledge. It is a pretty amazing combination.

All of our Recovery Coaches have both lived experience and learned experience. They receive regular monthly supervision to ensure they well supported, to support you! So we may be biased, but we think they are right up there with the best of them!