Professionals in recovery face specific challenges: licensing-board concerns, career-disclosure decisions, professional-identity reformation, return-to-work planning, the unique pressure of high-stakes performance in sobriety. RECO Intensive's Professional group is built for that population.
What this group looks like at RECO Intensive
A weekly group of professionals — physicians, attorneys, pilots, executives, financial-services professionals, healthcare leaders — facilitated by a clinician experienced with professional-population recovery. Confidentiality is taken with particular seriousness given identity-exposure concerns for many group members.
The peer composition is the key clinical asset. Cross-professional learning happens fast when people whose addiction-and-recovery is tied to their careers can speak openly with peers who get it.
What this group works on
- Disclosure decisions — to employers, licensing boards, partners
- Coordination with state physician health programs, attorney recovery programs, pilot programs
- Return-to-work planning and pacing
- Professional identity in recovery — who am I when the work isn't the whole story
- Maintaining recovery under high-performance pressure
- Workplace boundaries and triggers
- The intersection of perfectionism, performance, and substance use
Who this group serves best
Licensed professionals whose recovery has career implications. Executives and high-performers in recovery. Clients in monitored recovery programs (PHPs, attorney programs, pilot programs). Anyone for whom career and recovery are intertwined.
How this integrates with the rest of treatment
Coordinates with case management on disclosure-decision support and outside-program communication. Findings inform individual therapy on identity and performance work. Aftercare planning incorporates professional return-to-work specifics.
Why the RECO approach is different
Many programs handle professionals individually, without peer community of similar professionals. We staff this group specifically because the peer-learning dimension is so clinically valuable — and the confidentiality structure is built to support it.