Paraclete Recovery, LLC
Peer Support - Recovery Coaching - Community Connection
Why Paraclete Recovery is Different
Paraclete Recovery is not treatment.
It’s not just peer support.
It’s recovery reimagined.
Whole-person, heart-centered, and uniquely designed for lasting transformation.
This is for the person who has completed outpatient treatment and is left asking, “What now?”
For the person who has tried traditional treatment services and felt like something was missing.
For the person who knows their healing requires more than a clinical model can offer.
Paraclete Recovery is an integrative, heart-centered approach to recovery — where lived experience, professional training, and holistic healing come together to support the whole person. This work goes beyond coping skills and surface-level support. It is about rebuilding your life in a way that holds your recovery. Support here is deeply personal and intentionally layered. It may include recovery coaching, peer support, and life-path guidance — while also integrating practices that help you reconnect to yourself on a deeper level.
This can look like:
Working with your Human Design to better understand your patterns, energy, and decision-making
Crystal singing sound bowl and vibrational healing to support nervous system regulation
Engaging in grounding and embodiment practices that bring you back into your body
Creating space to repair relationships — with yourself, with others, and within your life as a whole
This is not about fixing you. It’s about helping you understand yourself, reconnect with yourself, and rebuild from a place that is aligned. Here, recovery is not confined to a meeting room or a single pathway. It becomes a living, evolving process — one that supports you in real time, in real life. Paraclete Recovery exists in the space where traditional treatment ends — and real life begins.
This is recovery reimagined.
This is healing that includes all of you.
This is where you rise into your own wholeness.
And because recovery does not stop at 5 PM, neither do I. With telehealth options and availability on evenings and weekends, I offer support that meets you exactly where you are — when you need it most. Paraclete Recovery is recovery made accessible, compassionate, and transformative, inviting you to step into a process that goes beyond survival or maintaining and opens the door to renewal.
**Disclaimer**
**Paraclete Recovery LLC offers non-clinical, peer-based support, recovery coaching, and integrative services designed to support personal growth and healing. These services are not a replacement for licensed medical care, mental health treatment, or substance use disorder services. While Christina Bakker brings both professional training and lived experience to this work, all services are offered in a non-clinical capacity. This means they are not therapy, and do not include diagnosis, medical care, or clinical treatment. As part of this work, support may include helping you explore and connect with additional resources such as medical care, substance use treatment services, mental health services, or community supports when needed. While Paraclete Recovery LLC does not provide clinical services directly, guidance and support can be offered in identifying options and navigating next steps.
Welcome to Paraclete Recovery, LLC
Rooted in Experience, Guided with Heart
Hi, I’m Christina — and this work found me long before I ever gave it a name. I didn’t come into this path by accident. I came to it through lived experience, through deep knowing, and through the undeniable realization that there had to be something more than what already exists. Because what I had seen — and what I had lived — wasn’t being met in the spaces that were supposed to help.
And that’s where Paraclete Recovery was born.
I hold space for the kind of healing that reaches deeper than what most people have been offered — the kind that goes beyond surface-level support, beyond checklists, beyond systems that ask you to fit inside them. Paraclete Recovery was created from a knowing that healing doesn’t happen by simply getting through the day. It happens when you begin to reconnect with yourself — your strength, your voice, your sense of direction — and start building a life that feels steady, meaningful, and truly your own. I come to this work as someone who has lived it — and as someone who holds space for healing in a deeper way. My path into this work wasn’t just professional — it was personal, lived, and transformative. I understand what it means to unravel, to rebuild, and to find your way back to yourself in a way that feels real.
This is where my work as a healer and guide begins.
The training and certifications I hold support that work — giving it structure and integrity — but they are not the foundation. The foundation is lived experience, deep presence, and the ability to sit with others in the truth of where they are, without judgment, without expectation. What I offer is not one-dimensional support. It’s a deeply integrated approach that meets you as a whole person. This work weaves together recovery coaching, peer support, and life-path guidance with practices that help you reconnect on a deeper level — not just mentally, but physically, emotionally, and energetically. Together, we may explore your Human Design to better understand your patterns and how you move through the world, incorporate sound bowl and vibrational healing to support regulation and restoration, and engage in grounding, somatic, and energy-based practices that bring you back into alignment with yourself.
Recovery here also extends beyond the individual. It includes repairing relationships, strengthening connection with loved ones, and creating a life that feels supported, not isolated. This isn’t about adding more to your plate. It’s about creating space for what actually works. At the heart of Paraclete Recovery is partnership. I walk alongside you — not ahead of you, not behind you — offering presence, honesty, and encouragement as you navigate your path. I believe in your capacity to rebuild. I believe in your ability to reconnect. And I believe that when recovery is supported in a way that is personal, integrative, and aligned — it becomes something more than maintenance. It becomes transformation. It becomes empowerment. It becomes a life you want to live.
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At Paraclete Recovery, peer support is more than guidance—it is a collaborative, empowering coaching experience that blends lived wisdom with professional training. Rooted in compassion and respect, this approach supports not only recovery from substance use, but the broader journey of personal growth, life alignment, and renewed purpose.
Through telehealth, our work together is centered on you. Sessions are designed to help you clarify goals, strengthen recovery skills, and explore what it means to live in alignment with your values and inner truth. This includes both recovery-focused support and life path coaching—supporting transitions, identity exploration, confidence-building, and forward momentum at every stage of your journey.
A deeply integrated approach is at the core of this work — one that reaches beyond traditional recovery support and into the spaces where lasting change is created. Alongside grounding, mindfulness, journaling, and reflective practices, this work incorporates nervous system regulation, somatic and embodiment work, sound bowl therapy, and energy-based healing to support restoration across mind, body, and energy. We may also explore your Human Design — offering insight into your patterns, decision-making, and energetic alignment — so that your recovery is not something you force, but something that begins to work with you.
This process extends beyond the individual, supporting relationship repair, deeper connection, and the creation of a life that feels steady, supported, and real. This is not a one-size-fits-all model. Recovery coaching at Paraclete Recovery is flexible, heart-centered, and adaptive—honoring your lived experience, cultural context, spiritual beliefs, and personal goals. With flexible telehealth options and availability that extends beyond traditional hours, support is there when life is happening — in the moments you need it, not just the moments that fit a schedule.
At its core, this work is about empowerment. It is about walking beside you as you move beyond survival and into clarity, confidence, and self-trust. Here, recovery coaching becomes partnership, coaching becomes activation, and recovery becomes a foundation for renewal, purpose, and a life that feels aligned, meaningful, and truly your own.
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At Paraclete Recovery, peer support is not confined to a circle or a conversation — it’s a lived, shared experience.
This is a space where connection becomes active, where healing happens in relationship, and where growth is supported not just through words, but through presence, movement, and meaningful engagement in real life. Community here is intentional. It’s built through shared experiences — peer circles, workshops, group outings, and immersive gatherings that create space for connection, reflection, and forward movement. Whether sitting together in conversation, stepping outside into nature, or engaging in guided experiences, this work invites you to participate in your healing, not just talk about it.
Each offering is designed to support accountability, encouragement, and personal insight — while also creating opportunities to rebuild trust, strengthen relationships, and experience connection in a way that feels real and supportive. There is no single way these spaces unfold. Some gatherings are grounding and reflective — offering space to slow down, process, and reconnect inward. Others are more active and engaging — inviting movement, shared experience, and moments of connection that happen naturally, without pressure.
Within these spaces, healing is supported in ways that don’t always need to be explained. It might be felt in a moment of stillness, in the resonance of sound, in the shift that happens when you feel safe enough to exhale, or in the quiet recognition that you’re no longer doing this alone. You are not expected to show up a certain way here.
You are not asked to have it all figured out. You are simply invited to come as you are — and to be met in that. Over time, something begins to change. Connection feels more natural. Trust begins to rebuild. And being part of something starts to feel steady instead of uncertain.This is not about fitting into a group. It’s about experiencing what it means to be supported within one. Because healing doesn’t happen in isolation. It happens in the presence of others, in shared experience, and in the moments where you begin to feel yourself again — not as you were, but as you’re becoming.
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At Paraclete Recovery, we believe recovery becomes stronger when the barriers of daily life begin to lift. It is about practical, compassionate support that helps remove obstacles and expand opportunities—so you can build stability, confidence, and momentum in your recovery.
Through community connection and resource navigation, I walk beside you as we identify and access supports that strengthen your foundation. This may include connections to housing, employment, education, medical care, insurance, and social supports. Together, we make sense of complex systems, explore realistic options, and create a plan that feels empowering and achievable.
This work goes far beyond handing out referrals. It is a collaborative process rooted in encouragement and clarity—helping you understand what’s standing in your way, identify meaningful goals, and take intentional steps forward. As barriers are removed, space opens for possibility, growth, and renewed self-trust. At Paraclete Recovery, together we open doors by replacing obstacles with pathways of support. It’s about ensuring you are not just surviving in recovery, but building a life with access, stability, and opportunity—one that allows you to grow with purpose, resilience, and hope.
From Insight to Action 🌱 Where Hope Becomes Movement.🌱 Hope in Action - Healing in Motion.
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From Insight to Action 🌱 Where Hope Becomes Movement.🌱 Hope in Action - Healing in Motion. 🌱
“Recovery builds the bridge from struggle to strength, offering a path forward when the way feels uncertain. At Paraclete Recovery, lived experience is honored and transformed through peer support, coaching, and holistic care—becoming shared wisdom that strengthens individuals and communities alike. Together, we cross that bridge step by step, cultivating resilience, restoring balance, and creating lives rooted not only in healing, but in purpose, possibility, connection, and renewal. Driven by curiosity and built on purpose, this is where bold thinking meets thoughtful execution—and where meaningful change is created together.”
Journey With Us — Our Story
Where Healing Becomes Possible
Paraclete Recovery began with a simple but powerful question:
What if support could feel human, spacious, and truly life-giving?
What if recovery wasn’t only about what we leave behind, but about what we are becoming?
From that question, Paraclete Recovery took shape as a place where people are met as whole human beings—complex, capable, and worthy of care that adapts to real life. We exist to offer steady companionship through change, whether that change is recovery from substance use, a major life transition, or the quiet inner work of rebuilding trust in oneself.
Our work lives at the intersection of peer support, recovery coaching, life-path guidance, and holistic practice. We focus on practical momentum and inner alignment at the same time—helping people navigate systems, set meaningful goals, regulate their nervous systems, and reconnect with their own sense of direction. Support here is collaborative, strengths-based, and rooted in respect for lived experience.
Paraclete Recovery is also a place of community. Growth happens not only through insight, but through connection—through being seen, supported, and encouraged by others walking their own paths. We create environments where honesty is welcomed, progress is celebrated, and no one is expected to fit into a predefined mold. This is not a program designed to move people along. It is a space designed to walk with them. A place where resilience is cultivated, clarity is restored, and possibility quietly re-emerges.
Our story continues to be written alongside the people we serve. Every step forward, every barrier removed, every moment of self-recognition adds to it. We invite you to step into this work with us—and to discover what can unfold when support is thoughtful, flexible, and grounded in genuine care.
How I Walk With You
I founded Paraclete Recovery, LLC from a deep knowing that healing happens best when people are met with dignity, understanding, and support that honors the whole of who they are. This work grew from both professional training and lived experience—and from a desire to create a space where recovery, personal growth, and life realignment could unfold in a way that feels human, respectful, and real.
My background includes professional credentials as a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor II (CADC II), Certified Recovery Mentor II (CRM II), Adult Addiction and Mental Health Peer Support Specialist and Traditional Healthcare Worker (PSS & THW), and Forensic Peer Support Specialist (FPSS). These roles allow me to support individuals navigating substance use recovery, mental health challenges, and major life transitions with care that is informed, ethical, and grounded in relationship.
Rather than offering a rigid or one-size-fits-all model, Paraclete Recovery was created as a flexible, person-centered space. My work blends peer support, recovery coaching, life-path guidance, and holistic practices to support both practical stability and inner alignment. I focus on walking alongside people as they clarify goals, build resilience, navigate systems, and reconnect with their own sense of direction and possibility.
In addition to my peer and counseling credentials, I am also a trained Reiki Practitioner and Energy Healer. I thoughtfully weave mindfulness, somatic awareness, grounding practices, creative reflection, and energy-informed support into my work—not as add-ons, but as tools for nervous system regulation, self-trust, and sustainable growth. This integrative approach honors the connection between emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being.
Paraclete Recovery is not about moving people through a system or fitting them into a predefined path. It is about creating space for steadiness, insight, and momentum to emerge at a pace that feels respectful and empowering. I believe recovery and personal growth are living processes—shaped through choice, relationship, and care—and that with the right support, people can move forward with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
A Vision for Becoming
My vision for Paraclete Recovery is rooted in a simple, steady belief: recovery should feel possible, humane, and deeply affirming. I imagine a world where people are met with respect and compassion at every stage of change—without judgment, labels, or pressure to become someone they are not. In this vision, recovery is not defined solely by abstinence or symptom reduction. It is a process of reconnection—of rebuilding trust with oneself, rediscovering direction, and learning how to live with greater balance and authenticity. Healing unfolds not as a performance, but as a lived experience shaped by choice, relationship, and care.
I envision Paraclete Recovery as a place where people feel supported in becoming more fully themselves. Where practical stability and inner growth are held together. Where individuals are encouraged to explore who they are beyond survival, and to move toward lives that feel meaningful, grounded, and self-directed. At its heart, this vision is about possibility. It is about creating space for people to regain confidence, restore harmony across mind, body, and inner life, and step forward with clarity and purpose—knowing they are worthy of support, belonging, and a future that reflects their true potential.
The Heart of My Work
Paraclete Recovery was not built from a model. It was created from a knowing. A knowing that something was missing. A knowing that people were being asked to heal inside systems that could not fully hold them. A knowing that recovery was meant to be more than managing symptoms or surviving the day. So I created something different. Not a program to fit into — but a space that meets you where you actually are.
This work is deeply personal to me. It comes from lived experience, from walking through the breaking and the rebuilding, and from discovering that real healing doesn’t happen in pieces — it happens when you are met as a whole person. Mind. Body. Energy. Experience. Truth. All of it. I am deeply committed to walking alongside people in that process — not just as a provider, but as a guide, a witness, and a steady presence. This work is rooted in compassion, in respect for each person’s path, and in the belief that healing should feel human, supportive, and truly lived — not something separate from your life. What exists here is not something you will find replicated anywhere else — because it wasn’t designed by following what already exists. It was shaped through listening, through intuition, through experience, and through a commitment to create something that actually works for real life.
This is where structure and fluidity meet. Where grounded support and deeper healing exist side by side. Where you are not reduced to a role, a diagnosis, or a path that doesn’t fit. My approach is integrative and intentional — weaving together lived experience, recovery support, and guidance with practices that support the whole person. This may include grounded, trauma-informed understanding alongside somatic awareness, nervous system support, reflective exploration, and deeper practices that help you reconnect with yourself in a way that feels steady, aligned, and real. Here, recovery is not something you perform. It’s something you live into.
My work may move between conversation and silence, insight and experience, reflection and action. It may include exploring how you’re wired, how you respond, what you carry, and what you’re ready to release. It may look like rebuilding connection — with yourself, with others, with your life — in ways that feel honest and sustainable. There is space here for depth. There is space here for truth. There is space here for change that is not forced — but chosen. I am not here to fix you. I am here to walk with you as you remember who you are underneath everything that has tried to shape or silence you. Because I believe this fully:
You are inherently worthy of wholeness.
You carry within you the capacity for meaningful, lasting change.
You are not starting from nothing.
You are rebuilding from within.
Paraclete Recovery exists to hold that process — to support you as you reclaim your voice, your direction, and your way forward. Not by following someone else’s path — but by creating one that is truly your own.