Creating Space with the Invitation to Change©

Private Peer Coach 

As a Peer Coach, both privately and as a volunteer for the Partnership to End Addiction, Diana has worked with parents on a weekly basis offering support and guidance to families struggling to help a loved one with substance use/misuse.  It can be life changing to talk to someone who has gone through this before.  By speaking with a person with similar lived experience, parents and concerned significant  others (CSO) can learn how to stay connected with their loved one and get the support and encouragement they need and deserve.

“I witness with each client how beneficial family-centered, peer led and compassionate outreach is to them.   We all just need someone to talk to – and who better than a trained family recovery coach who has also walked that journey. I have found my interactive work as a peer coach very meaningful and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to help parents help their loved ones. 

“In my work with local families it is awesome to also refer them to other organizations for the breadth of information and resources that are available and largely unknown to them.”

                                                                                                                        ~ Diana Lynn

 

Peer Parent Coaches are trained to help parents and caregivers:

  • Understand the reasons why their child/loved one may be using substances.
  • Learn ways to talk with their loved one about their substance use.
  • Practice simple strategies that can help promote positive changes in their child/loved one’s behavior.
  • Focus on self-care as an important part of creating change and maintaining connections in the family.

*A peer-to-peer coach uses a common experience model comprised of the Invitation to Change (created by the Center for Motivation & Change (CMC).  This is a unique mix of evidence-based principles including Community Reinforcement & Family Training (CRAFT), Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

 

Let’s Get Acquainted

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Note: Services only available in the United States.

Contact: creatingspace@sossforsud.com

Creating Space Peer Coaching…

Offers private peer coaching with useful evidence-based help to better understand a loved one’s behavior, so that you can use strategies of ITC to improve communication and promote a positive connection leading to behavioral change….

And will emphasize your need for self-care and support your individual goals to get back to feeling like yourself, despite all the challenges you face with your loved one. 

Our Sessions Together Will Help You…

  • Feel value and speak candidly without judgment and with complete confidentiality,
  • Shift perspective to allow alternative, more effective communication skills to emerge,
  • Share the challenges (and successes) you and your loved one face,
  • Express pain without “chasing it away” with someone who has walked a similar path,
  • Explore ways in which you can improve and maintain important relationships,
  • Prepare for changing scenarios and how you might engage as the situation evolves.
  • Connect with a trusted person to listen without emphasis on how you should “fix it.”

Meet Diana Lynn

Mother of Four
Family Recovery Resource Coordinator,
Private Peer Coach &  Workshop Presenter

  • Creating Space Private Peer Coach
  • Peer Parent Coach & Representative, Partnership to End Addiction
  • Certified Instructor, Invitation to Change & CRAFT
  • The Compassionate Friends (TCF) Founding Member & Chapter Leader
  • Annual Workshop Presenter and Panelist /  TCF Conferences
  • Recovery Advocacy Project (RAP) Member, California
  • Producer of High School Musical Theater, Volunteer/Retired
  • Mobilize Recovery: Family Recovery – Advisory Committee Member
  • FedUp! Rally Steering Committee Member
  • National Ambassador, Shatterproof
  • Paralegal (30 years) retired

I am dedicated to connecting families with vital resources that my family and I did not have available to us in our time of need.

Working with families as an educator in the Invitation to Change approach is my heart work!  I look forward to talking to you.  Please take advantage of an initial free consultation.

About Coaching Sessions…

  • Individual coaching series consist of (6) one-hour virtual phone/video meetings, one per week over 6-weeks.
  • Scheduling of 6-week sessions will be covered on our first call.
  • The Invitation to Change (A Short Guide) workbook is FREE and will be delivered to you via USPS. It is recommended that you purchase the book or digital version of Beyond Addiction (link on the Invitation to Change page).
  • Fees paid per invoice provided via PayPal, Venmo or card.
  • Communications between scheduled weekly coaching sessions shall be limited to emails.
  • Private and continued confidential sessions may go beyond 6-weeks by consent of both parties, and a paid renewal fee.
  • Life happens, and although schedules may change, every effort should be made by both parties to maintain agreed upon schedule. Flexibility will be given with 24-hours notice.