Book, 2023
Recovery Leadership: Building Teams for Better Outcomes
A guide for behavioral health leaders on team development, culture, and how lived experience and formal training work together.
Buy on AmazonQuality teams create better outcomes.
Recovery Consulting trains, mentors, and builds up the people who serve others in behavioral health and recovery. Working with organizations nationwide.
Founded by Kenneth A. Vick, MA, CRADC, LAC, HRS, CRPR
Also Executive Director, Avalon Wellness & Recovery
Experience More than a decade training behavioral health professionals
Three ways we work with your team
Every engagement starts with your people and the outcomes you are trying to improve. We build the plan around that, not the other way around.
Training
Live sessions for staff, supervisors, and leaders, delivered on site or online. Practical, story-driven, and built on lived experience as well as research.
Leadership mentoring
One-on-one and small-group coaching for executive directors, program managers, and supervisors who want to lead with clarity and keep their teams strong.
Team building
Help for teams that need better communication, healthier supervision, and a culture where people can speak up and grow.
Training topics
Sessions can be tailored to your staff, your funding requirements, and your population.
- Effective leadership
- Peer specialties
- Harm reduction
- Medication and recovery
- Working with the unhoused
- Ethics
- Conflict resolution
- Motivational interviewing
Continuing education and certification
Ken trains people in recovery to become Certified Peer Specialists in Missouri, and also trains case managers, counselors, and supervisors.
- Ethics classes for continuing education units
- Stigma reduction
- Medication-assisted treatment
- Recovery-oriented care
Ken Vick
Ken has led in behavioral health for over a decade, with a focus on substance use disorder, leadership development, team building, and supporting people who are unhoused. He is the Executive Director of Avalon Wellness & Recovery and the founder of Recovery Consulting.
He is a person in long-term recovery, and he brings that experience into every room he trains. Colleagues and students often say the same thing: he knows what recovery looks like in real life, and he makes the work practical.
Ken believes substance use and mental health should never be treated as separate worlds. Whole-person care means systems, funding, and pathways that treat them as connected.
In September 2026, Global Healthcare Magazine named him among the behavioral health and recovery leaders to watch. Read the feature.
- Credentials
CRADC, LAC, HRS, CRPR - Education
Master's in Organizational Leadership with a concentration in ethics. Bachelor's in Psychology. - Leadership and boards
Current board member, Missouri Association of Treatment Court Professionals (MATCP). - Certification work
Co-creator of the Harm Reduction Specialist (HRS) certification. Teaches MARS, ethics, and Certified Peer Specialist classes.
Books and white papers
Ideas from the training room, written down so your whole team can use them.
Book, 2025, with Michelle Vick
The Essence of Healthy Relationships
A practical relationship guide with strategies for building balanced, lasting connections.
Buy on AmazonWhite paper series
Understanding Behavior Before Expecting Change
Paper No. 1 in a six-part series connecting trauma-informed care, neuroscience, motivational interviewing, and leadership.
Request a copyWhite paper series
Creating Psychological Safety in Recovery Organizations
Paper No. 2 on trauma-informed leadership, supervision, and accountability without humiliation.
Download PDFWhat people say
Words from colleagues, students, and partner organizations.
He was a mentor and a priceless source of knowledge regarding the disease of addiction and the professional ethics involved with addiction counseling.
Larry Elliott, former counselor at Benilde Hall
Our experience with Recovery Consulting has been exceedingly positive. The services rendered have met and surpassed our expectations in many ways.
Vanessa Kennedy, Code 1 Wellness
He lives for recovery and truly wants to help the people in his community.
Tab P., trained by Ken in peer support and MARS
Tell us about your team.
Share what you are working on and what you want to change. You will hear back from Ken directly.
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