Creating Healthier and More Connected Families
Break the cycle of addiction by rebuilding stronger, healthier connections with my tailored strategies and compassionate support.
I'm here not just to offer services but to truly connect. My purpose-driven approach is not just about helping you overcome challenges; it's about turning tough times into moments of growth and unity. I deeply care about why I do this work, and that's to give you heartfelt support, well-rounded guidance, and tailored strategies that fit just right for you. Together, we get to create a brighter future for you and your family."
- Timothy Harrington
Family Addiction Recovery Challenges |
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Sustainable Recovery: Solution Focused
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Family Addiction Recovery Solutions
Sustainable Recovery: Solution Focused, Client-Centered
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Family Addiction Recovery Benefits
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Sustainable Recovery: Connection is the currency of wellness.
Sustainable Recovery: You can reach your goals.
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What People are Saying
Professional Endorsements
- "I would highly recommend Tim Harrington because he is truly "in the moment" with his clients and his referents and is all about doing what works! He is able to take conceptual to actual and create a continuum of care that is truly in his client's and their families best interest. I am honored to know Tim and would highly recommend his services to anyone interested in long term recovery. His vision for our industry is progressive and spot on!!" - Denise E. Klein, CEO and Executive Director at Milestones Ranch Malibu Dual Diagnosis Treatment Center
- “Tim is a seasoned and compassionate professional who supports Jaywalker clients and their families at times of critical transitions in their recovery. Provides 1:1 support and guidance, and assistance at all levels of treatment continuum. Always available and professional, works well with Jaywalker clinical team to assure continuity of services and healthy outcomes for our clients and their families.” - Bobby Ferguson, CEO and Founder of Jaywalker Lodge
- “Timothy has a very firm, caring way to assist reluctant clients into treatment. Whether supporting clients while in treatment or when they leave, Timothy has a strong sense of what is necessary to lead clients on the road to successful recovery. I strongly recommend Timothy to anyone looking for a Family Coach.” - Anne Brown, Psychotherapist, Life Coach, Sausilito Progressive Addiction Solutions
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Client Testimonials
Chris Lutz - recovering parent
To have someone in your corner, both for the recovering addict and also the rest of the family is invaluable! Tim Harrington comes to the table with life experience, knowledge, and great communication skills. He is a great sounding board, a thought provoking resource, a guide and a mentor. He invites us to think some new thoughts and learn some new behaviors. He challenges both our son and our family to create a NEW beginning and allow time to show that it works. It was amazing to have someone who finally understood my feelings of desperation and not knowing what to do next. Through this journey he encourages, has empathy and yet won’t leave you “stranded”. You feel empowered to be proactive and learn from someone who has already “ been there...done that”. I appreciate the times he’s spent working with us as a team to rebuild the lost time we’ve had as a family and to see our son flourish and grow. He reminds us of how far we’ve come and the reasons to stay focused. His resources are great! I know that having Tim as our coach has been pivotal on this journey OUT of addiction and it’s hold on our family. Thanks Tim for your dedication. We appreciate you very much!
K, recovering parent
It took me a couple of weeks but I feel like I just started comprehending the information about healing, centering, meditation, etc.. In the beginning I just couldn't hear it. I was too focused on my son. You have given me so much in our time with your group. I was blown away by the concept of being "okay" in the midst of these battles, that we were organized around the substance abuse, that we need to work as hard on OUR recovery as our son does on his. I had been thinking that "love the heck out of the addict" was the best thing, but my old pattern of going on lockdown and "punishing" my son into recovery had emerged. I picture this as us drowning in a sea of confusion and you are there, in the midst of the storm, not with a life jacket or boat, but there showing and telling us how NOT to drown. I am SO HAPPY to just have someone validate that we can survive this well and not let it ruin my life forever, like I have seen for years in my family. As I told you, my upbringing was full of chaos, addiction, codependency type of behaviors. I had worked very hard to move on from this, but I hadn't as much as I thought. Your wisdom and guidance in the group is helping me get started on this work again which can only benefit me, my marriage, my parenting, and of course, my son. I love the concept of being a loving mirror.
So, thank you for everything. Your passion for healing of families is evident and clearly making changes in peoples' lives.
Jenny & Matthew, recovering parents
What we learned:
Ed & Marne Holstein, recovering parents
"Our son hit bottom in November of 2012. Having been in out of treatment for over 6 years we were afraid we were finally going to lose him. We were desperate and didn't know where to turn when Tim was recommended to us. As a change coach he took over and helped guide us through the turbulent weeks and months ahead. Tim mentored us in writing intervention letters to our son, selecting the best in patient treatment facility for him, traveling with him and coordinating his treatment regimen both during and most importantly after his discharge. For the first 6 months we had weekly phone consultations with Tim during which he would update us on our sons progress and advise us on how to interact with him during this critical period. After his discharge, he advised us on the best options for housing, selecting the best therapist and getting him active in the local AA chapter and getting a sponsor.
Our son has been sober for 15 months and is living a happy, productive and healthy life. There are no guarantees but we finally feel like we have our son back for the first time in over 10 years. We credit Tim for helping us put all the pieces together that gave him the best chance for discovering the road to recovery. Tim, we thank you and Sustainable Recovery from the bottom of our hearts."
DQ, a person in long-term recovery
"After many dark years in addiction, I was trying to find a path to recovery. I had known Tim for some time, and I called him and asked for his help. He came the following day with a suitcase. Over the next month, we went to Denver for outpatient treatment, lived in a two-bed hotel room, and spent time together I will remember fondly and for the rest of my life. Tim did not judge me, he did not tell me what to do, and he did not make decisions for me. He supported me unconditionally with his love, his strength, and his own experience. Tim taught me how to live my life in a way that aligned with my deepest beliefs and values, and, in time, I have come to experience that which I had always sought in my addiction but never found--true and living joy, happiness, and contentment. Tim's ideas and methods exist on the very edge of contemporary thought and practice regarding addiction, and they are tremendously powerful and effective. Tim was there the day I got clean, and he is in my life today. Tim has become one of the closest friends I've ever had. His gifts have benefitted me profoundly and have changed the very course of my life. I am unspeakably grateful for Tim's friendship, his love, his strength, and his guidance."
Peter O., person in long-term discovery
"Tim lives his recovery and his service to it. If you need any help for yourself, a friend or family member who is having a hard time with addiction, Tim is a trustworthy and invaluable, completely reliable and confidential, source of service and information.
Tim is not the same person as Ticht Nhat Hanh, but many of his online comments lately have led me to nickname him 'Tim Nhat Hanh'. He is a wise man who can help people look inwards at themselves.Do not hesitate to contact him if you may need to avail yourself or someone close to you of his services, his capabilities and his help. He can get people through and out of what many may feel is an impossible situation."
Forever grateful,
To have someone in your corner, both for the recovering addict and also the rest of the family is invaluable! Tim Harrington comes to the table with life experience, knowledge, and great communication skills. He is a great sounding board, a thought provoking resource, a guide and a mentor. He invites us to think some new thoughts and learn some new behaviors. He challenges both our son and our family to create a NEW beginning and allow time to show that it works. It was amazing to have someone who finally understood my feelings of desperation and not knowing what to do next. Through this journey he encourages, has empathy and yet won’t leave you “stranded”. You feel empowered to be proactive and learn from someone who has already “ been there...done that”. I appreciate the times he’s spent working with us as a team to rebuild the lost time we’ve had as a family and to see our son flourish and grow. He reminds us of how far we’ve come and the reasons to stay focused. His resources are great! I know that having Tim as our coach has been pivotal on this journey OUT of addiction and it’s hold on our family. Thanks Tim for your dedication. We appreciate you very much!
K, recovering parent
It took me a couple of weeks but I feel like I just started comprehending the information about healing, centering, meditation, etc.. In the beginning I just couldn't hear it. I was too focused on my son. You have given me so much in our time with your group. I was blown away by the concept of being "okay" in the midst of these battles, that we were organized around the substance abuse, that we need to work as hard on OUR recovery as our son does on his. I had been thinking that "love the heck out of the addict" was the best thing, but my old pattern of going on lockdown and "punishing" my son into recovery had emerged. I picture this as us drowning in a sea of confusion and you are there, in the midst of the storm, not with a life jacket or boat, but there showing and telling us how NOT to drown. I am SO HAPPY to just have someone validate that we can survive this well and not let it ruin my life forever, like I have seen for years in my family. As I told you, my upbringing was full of chaos, addiction, codependency type of behaviors. I had worked very hard to move on from this, but I hadn't as much as I thought. Your wisdom and guidance in the group is helping me get started on this work again which can only benefit me, my marriage, my parenting, and of course, my son. I love the concept of being a loving mirror.
So, thank you for everything. Your passion for healing of families is evident and clearly making changes in peoples' lives.
Jenny & Matthew, recovering parents
What we learned:
- To focus of our life, rather than just on our son's life.
- We're learned how to change our responses to our son and other people in the family.
- Tim helped us to gain independence from the addictive behavior.
- We focused on the impact the addiction is having on our life and the associated behaviors.
- We learned that although our son may have a problematic habit, he is more than just the habit so we no longer use or encourage the use of labels, such as diseased, alcoholic or addict.
- We have learned that addiction is not a person.
- We learned that we are not “powerless” over addiction. We have discovered the power of choice!
- We learned that by focusing on our own thoughts, feelings and behavior we will make our own life more manageable.
- Changing OUR behaviors has had a positive effect on our son.
- We have seen an improvement in all our relationships.
- This process has allowed us to take back control of our life.
- We were supported, while we developed the skills necessaryfor sustainable change.
- We were coached to be compassionate with ourselves.
- We were coached to be patient with ourselves, yet persistent in our goals.
- Over time the coaching helped us to change beliefs and develop new ways of behaving around our son.
- The foundation of the process is the 3p’s (PPP) Practice, Patience, Persistence
- We learned ways of improving our own life.
- We learned how to be in a healthy relationship with someone who isn't always going to do what we want them to do. But hey that's parenting, right?
Ed & Marne Holstein, recovering parents
"Our son hit bottom in November of 2012. Having been in out of treatment for over 6 years we were afraid we were finally going to lose him. We were desperate and didn't know where to turn when Tim was recommended to us. As a change coach he took over and helped guide us through the turbulent weeks and months ahead. Tim mentored us in writing intervention letters to our son, selecting the best in patient treatment facility for him, traveling with him and coordinating his treatment regimen both during and most importantly after his discharge. For the first 6 months we had weekly phone consultations with Tim during which he would update us on our sons progress and advise us on how to interact with him during this critical period. After his discharge, he advised us on the best options for housing, selecting the best therapist and getting him active in the local AA chapter and getting a sponsor.
Our son has been sober for 15 months and is living a happy, productive and healthy life. There are no guarantees but we finally feel like we have our son back for the first time in over 10 years. We credit Tim for helping us put all the pieces together that gave him the best chance for discovering the road to recovery. Tim, we thank you and Sustainable Recovery from the bottom of our hearts."
DQ, a person in long-term recovery
"After many dark years in addiction, I was trying to find a path to recovery. I had known Tim for some time, and I called him and asked for his help. He came the following day with a suitcase. Over the next month, we went to Denver for outpatient treatment, lived in a two-bed hotel room, and spent time together I will remember fondly and for the rest of my life. Tim did not judge me, he did not tell me what to do, and he did not make decisions for me. He supported me unconditionally with his love, his strength, and his own experience. Tim taught me how to live my life in a way that aligned with my deepest beliefs and values, and, in time, I have come to experience that which I had always sought in my addiction but never found--true and living joy, happiness, and contentment. Tim's ideas and methods exist on the very edge of contemporary thought and practice regarding addiction, and they are tremendously powerful and effective. Tim was there the day I got clean, and he is in my life today. Tim has become one of the closest friends I've ever had. His gifts have benefitted me profoundly and have changed the very course of my life. I am unspeakably grateful for Tim's friendship, his love, his strength, and his guidance."
Peter O., person in long-term discovery
"Tim lives his recovery and his service to it. If you need any help for yourself, a friend or family member who is having a hard time with addiction, Tim is a trustworthy and invaluable, completely reliable and confidential, source of service and information.
Tim is not the same person as Ticht Nhat Hanh, but many of his online comments lately have led me to nickname him 'Tim Nhat Hanh'. He is a wise man who can help people look inwards at themselves.Do not hesitate to contact him if you may need to avail yourself or someone close to you of his services, his capabilities and his help. He can get people through and out of what many may feel is an impossible situation."
Forever grateful,
FAQ
What is addiction, and how does it affect families?
Addiction, properly understood, is neither a disease to be cured—though it has aspects of a disease—nor a problem to be eliminated. On the contrary, addiction is the individual’s attempt to solve a quandary. Before we can address addiction, this simple fact must be understood.
What coaching services do you offer, and how can they help my family?
I offer coaching services that are designed to help families impacted by addiction. My services include education on addiction, strategies for managing stress and emotions, communication skills training, and guidance on building a support system. I am an experienced and compassionate professional who is dedicated to helping families find the hope and healing they need.
How long does your coaching program last, and how often do we meet?
At the heart of my coaching program is a customized approach that caters to the unique needs of each family. While the length of coaching varies depending on the situation, most families typically work with me for three to six months. I'm available on a weekly or bi-weekly basis for regular sessions, but I'm also available any time to address real-time situations that require immediate attention. You're welcome to text or email me at any time for non-urgent matters as well. Our constant communication is key to achieving your desired results.
How do you address the unique needs of each family?
I recognize that every family's situation is unique, and so I tailor my coaching services to meet the specific needs of each family. I work with families to develop personalized plans that address the unique challenges and strengths of the family.
What is the cost of your coaching services?
The cost of my coaching services varies. I offer very competitive rates and flexible payment options to make my services accessible to families who need them. Click here for more information about your investment.
Do you accept insurance, and what are my payment options?
I do not accept insurance, but I offer a range of payment options to make my services accessible to families. These options include payment plans, and sliding-scale fees. Click here for more information about rates.
How do you ensure the privacy and confidentiality of our family's information?
I take privacy and confidentiality very seriously, and I follow all applicable state and federal laws regarding the protection of personal information. I am bound by ethical and legal obligations to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of my clients.
How do you measure success in your coaching program?
I measure success by tracking progress towards the goals set by each family. I work with families to identify specific outcomes they want to achieve, and I use evidence-based methods to track progress and adjust the treatment plan as needed. I offer the option of taking the Recovery Capital Index as a data collection tool to measure outcomes.
What can my family expect during and after the coaching program?
As a family, you can expect continuous support and guidance throughout our coaching program. My goal is to equip you with a variety of skills and strategies to help you on your journey to healing and recovery. Even after the coaching program is completed, I'm committed to providing ongoing support, so you feel confident in your ability to move forward.
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