Get internationally certified to guide families through the emotional wreckage of addiction. Learn powerful coaching tools that restore clarity, boundaries, and lasting change—starting with the people who love the addict most.
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There’s a quiet crisis unfolding in families affected by addiction and most don’t know where to turn. Therapy can help. Support groups can help. But what families really need is a coach who understands the chaos, the codependency, and the emotional wreckage and knows how to guide them out of it.
Whether you’ve lived this experience or want to specialize in family recovery professionally, this program positions you as a trusted expert who knows how to create real change.
So if you've ever thought...
“I know what it’s like to be the parent, the spouse, or the sibling—and I want to help others through it…”
“Families are suffering in silence. I want to be the one who shows them a way forward…”
“I want a career that pays me to do work that actually heals people…”
Then this is made for someone like you.
You’ll get everything you need to confidently coach families through the chaos of addiction, help them set boundaries, and reclaim their lives
Understand Family Roles & Dysfunction
Learn how to identify family roles, defense mechanisms, and trauma responses using Claudia Black’s foundational framework.
Break Destructive Cycles
Coach families to recognize and interrupt enabling, rescuing, and blame-based patterns—shifting them toward accountability and emotional safety.
Rebuild Trust and Stability at Home
Apply step-by-step methods to help families restore connection, structure, and a sense of peace—before, during, and after treatment.
Teach Boundaries That Actually Hold
Guide families in setting and enforcing clear, compassionate boundaries with their addicted loved one without guilt or collapse.
Educate with Clarity and Credibility
Demystify addictive behaviors, brain chemistry, and the difference between legal and illegal substances and how each affects relationships.
Coach Through Emotional Fallout
Help families uncover and process buried emotions like blame, resentment, fear, and anger—so healing can truly begin.
Apply the Stages of Change to the Family Unit
Use this proven model to assess and coach families as a system—meeting them where they are, and moving them forward together.
The Complete Certified Family Recovery Coach Video Series Course
Relapse Prevention Course Self Study
Ethics and Professional Standards Course
10 Weeks of Live Group Mentorship with a Master Coach
Digital Course Manuals + Exams + Credentialing
Marketing Seals + Use of NCFRC Designation
36 Combined CEUs (Continuing Education Units)
Bonus: My #1 Best-Selling Workbook On Client Exercises
Bonus: Private Graduate & Networking Communities
Bonus: Access to Exclusive Job Board
Bonus: 1-Year Online Directory Listing to Attract Clients
Bonus: Referrals from The Addictions Academy®
Bonus: Faculty + Affiliate Opportunities
Bonus: Lifetime Discounts On All Addictions Academy® Programs & Certifications
Tricia Parido is an internationally certified Master Coach Trainer, addiction and mental health expert, and the creator of Total Emotional Performance™—a transformative approach to emotional leadership and behavioral change. With over a decade of experience, Tricia has helped thousands of individuals, families, and professionals dismantle emotional chaos, build high-performance coping strategies, and reclaim their lives from trauma, addiction, and toxic cycles. A visionary in the coaching and recovery world, Tricia brings a unique fusion of emotional intelligence, performance psychology, and real-world practicality to everything she teaches. Her mission: to help you become a coach who changes lives—without burnout, perfectionism, or shame.
Addiction is a disease that tears apart families, ruins lives and adversely affects whole communities. As a certified recovery coach, you can make a difference with competence and compassion.
The Gold Standard
In addiction and mental health education and state exam preparation
Accredited
Accredited in the USA, Canada, Europe, and 10 other countries for addiction and mental health classes.
Opportunities
Online Directory listing, Networking opportunities, employment and Job Board for students enrolled at TAA.
You can also email us at [email protected] or call 1.800.706.0318 ext. 2
A Family Recovery Coach is a trained professional who helps the loved ones of someone struggling with addiction. While most support focuses on the person with the addiction, a Family Coach supports the family system helping parents, partners, siblings, or adult children navigate the emotional chaos, set healthy boundaries, and begin their own healing journey.
Family Coaches are not therapists. They don’t diagnose or treat mental health conditions. Instead, they use practical tools, education, and structured guidance to:
- Break cycles of enabling and codependency
- Restore clarity, stability, and communication at home
- Empower families to support a loved one without losing themselves
- Help family members reclaim their peace, purpose, and power
In short: A Family Recovery Coach helps the people around the addict heal whether or not their loved one ever gets sober.
You’ll be trained to support parents, partners, siblings, and extended family members of individuals struggling with substance use. You'll also learn how to handle high-conflict situations, resistance, enabling behavior, and crisis response.
Coaching is future-focused, action-oriented, and designed to create real-time change. You’ll learn how to support families without diagnosing, prescribing, or digging into deep clinical work. It’s faster, more flexible, and often more relatable for families in crisis.
No. This training is designed for both professionals and people with lived experience. You don’t need a counseling degree or therapy license just a desire to help families heal, and a willingness to learn. We’ll teach you everything you need to coach ethically, effectively, and with confidence.
Most students complete the training and earn their certification in 8 to 10 weeks. You’ll have access to on-demand video modules, plus 10 weeks of live mentorship, so you can move at your own pace with expert guidance along the way.
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14th – 15th August 2025
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