Professional Recovery Coach Certificate
(PRCC)

Build Recovery Coaching Expertise
Help People Create Meaningful Change
100% Online ~ Fully Self-Paced ~ Learn on Your Schedule

A proven program designed to build real coaching skills, confidence, and professional credibility.

Specialized Training for Recovery-Focused Coaching

Recovery is about more than overcoming addiction. It's about rebuilding lives, strengthening relationships, developing resilience, and creating a future filled with purpose and possibility.

The Professional Recovery Coach Certificate (PRCC) provides specialized education in addiction, recovery, and the coaching approaches that help individuals make meaningful, sustainable changes in their lives.

Designed for aspiring recovery coaches, peer supporters, helping professionals, and experienced coaches seeking to expand their expertise, this program combines an understanding of addiction and recovery with practical, evidence-informed coaching strategies.

Complete your training from anywhere, at your own pace, with no required live classes or meeting times.

Everything You Need to Build Your Recovery Coaching Expertise
✓ Earn your Professional Recovery Coach Certificate (PRCC)
✓ Complete 80 hours of specialized recovery-focused education
✓ Explore the neuroscience of addiction, motivation, and behavioral change
✓ Learn evidence-informed coaching strategies that support sustainable recovery
✓ Understand family dynamics, relationships, and their impact on recovery
✓ Strengthen your understanding of professional ethics, boundaries, and scope of practice
✓ Complete all seven online courses on your own schedule

Your PRCC Courses
Seven Online Courses. 80 Hours of Specialized Recovery Education.

1. Neuroscience of Joyful Recovery - Explore the relational nature of the brain and the important role that connection, relationships, and joy can play in healthy development and recovery.
2. Dynamics of Professional Recovery Coaching - Discover how strengths-based, person-centered coaching can support individuals in identifying goals, building resilience, and creating meaningful behavioral change.
3. Motivation to Change - Explore motivation, readiness for change, and practical approaches drawn from Motivational Interviewing and solution-focused questioning to help individuals strengthen their commitment to recovery goals.
4. Right Thinking in Recovery - Examine the influence of thoughts, beliefs, and self-talk on behavior. Explore cognitive restructuring and strategies that promote self-awareness, healthier thinking patterns, and positive change.
5. Coaching Families - Develop a deeper understanding of family and relational dynamics surrounding addiction and recovery, and explore approaches for supporting healthy communication, boundaries, and positive change.
6. Ethical & Legal Issues in Professional Recovery Coaching - Explore professional ethics, confidentiality, boundaries, scope of practice, and legal considerations essential to responsible recovery coaching.
7. Family Issues in Recovery - Addiction affects more than the individual. Explore the impact of addiction on the family system, common patterns of family responses, and the challenges and opportunities families experience throughout the recovery process.

Earn Your Professional Recovery Coach Certificate

Upon successful completion of the program requirements, you'll earn the Professional Recovery Coach Certificate (PRCC) documenting your specialized education in addiction, recovery, and recovery-focused coaching.

The PRCC demonstrates your commitment to developing the knowledge and professional understanding needed to support individuals pursuing recovery and meaningful life change.

Whether you're expanding an existing coaching practice, strengthening your work in peer support, or preparing to pursue opportunities in the recovery field, the PRCC provides a valuable foundation in recovery-focused education.

IAPRC Membership
Once earned, all IAPRC credentials require ongoing membership to maintain. Benefits of membership:

• Active credential status, and credential renewal eligibility
• IAPRC Coach Directory Listing
• Community membership with live trainings

Membership details are shared once a CPC credential has been issued. $16.95 per month.

Learn on Your Schedule. Build Skills That Make a Difference.
Your training is designed to fit your life.
100% Online. Fully Self-Paced. No Required Live Classes.
Study when and where it's convenient for you while building your understanding of addiction, recovery, motivation, family dynamics, and ethical recovery coaching practices.
Invest in Your Education. Expand Your Ability to Serve.
Prepare to support individuals and families as they move toward healthier, more purposeful lives.