The goal is not
simply to stop an
unwanted behaviour,
but to understand the
thoughts, emotions,
and patterns that
drive it, and learn
to respond in ways
that reflect what
matters most.

Serving Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, SEVA Recovery is recognised as the leading provider of confidential peer support recovery for public figures, physicians, first responders, and law enforcement. That distinction was earned quietly, one person at a time. We have now expanded our services to offer the same standard of support to anyone ready to make meaningful and lasting change.

Recovery asks for the same care and patience the seasons ask of a forest.

Chapter 02, The Practice

Two languages describe the same mind. We teach them together.

i.

Philosophy first

Lasting change doesn't come from any single model or program. Schema Education | Values Adaptation brings together evidence-based behavioural science, mindfulness philosophy, helping people understand the patterns that shape their behaviour and learn to respond according to what matters most.

Methodologies serve the philosophy, not the other way around.

ii.

Two languages, one mind

Cognitive-behavioural science and mindfulness philosophy describe the same mind in different vocabularies. One arrived at through the laboratory, the other through centuries of careful first-person inquiry. SEVA brings the two together in practice, presented as practical psychological tools.

iii.

Peer support, one to one

Every practitioner brings professional training, relevant credentials, and lived experience with the very patterns our clients are working to overcome. That combination creates a rapport and honesty not available in conventional clinical settings.

Round-the-clock support you will not find elsewhere.

The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind.

Dr. Anna Lembke

Professor of Psychiatry, Stanford, author of Dopamine Nation

Chapter 03, The Services

Three individual programs, one continuous practice.

  1. Substance and Behavioural Addiction

    A structured arc for those ready to understand the mind behind the substance or behaviour, and to change, permanently.

    Read the program
  2. Anxiety and OCD Peer Support Therapy

    For the exhausting cycles of intrusive thought, rumination, perfectionism, and the relentless self-pressure that keeps a person stuck in a loop.

    Read the program
  3. Walk-Therapy

    Two people, a path, a conversation that moves. To the casual observer, it looks like two friends out for a walk.

    Read the program

SEVA Recovery also delivers workshops for organizations, first-responder agencies, healthcare teams, schools, and community groups.

Workshops and community

You are the sky. Everything else, it's just the weather.

Pema Chödrön

Buddhist teacher

Chapter 04, The Ethics

On finances

Cost is decided case by case, and we will not allow finances to become a barrier to support.

On fit

If our support is not right for you, we will tell you directly and point you toward what is.

On practitioners

Every practitioner carries lived experience of the patterns our clients are moving through, alongside their professional training.

On what we are not

We are not a 12-step-influenced program. Our approach is entirely secular, with no religious or spiritual component. SEVA Recovery is a one-to-one approach grounded in our integrative framework, Schema Education | Values Adaptation, drawing from behavioural science and mindfulness philosophy.

Chapter 05, The Door

When you are ready, write to us.

Your name, an email, a phone number, and a short note about what you are seeking support for. Someone from SEVA Recovery will reply within twenty-four hours. If our support is not right for you, we will tell you directly.